Client: VTT – iMERMAID
Period of Project: November 2023 – June 2024
Participants: EJWP5: Victoria Collier – Welsh Water, Leo Mensel – ECSA, Chrysa Efstratiou – HCMR, Sabrine Chamam – ENIG, Henna Sundqvist – VTT
Chemicals of emerging concern (CEC) are a vast group of versatile chemicals that can be potentially harmful to living organisms. There is an increasing pressure to reduce the usage of these chemicals and their migration into water ways. Replacement of CEC is identified to reduce the negative impacts of these chemicals.
The Horizon Europe iMERMAID project focuses on developing innovative solutions for Mediterranean ecosystem remediation via monitoring and decontamination from chemical pollution. This project aims at integrating, coordinating, and synergizing innovative preventive, monitoring, and remediation solutions. As part of the project, there is a need to study how certain chemicals could be replaced.
EJWP5 group contributed this joint initiative by helping to identify alternatives to contaminants of emerging concern.
