Project information
SOLUTIONS - Solutions for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management
(SOLUTIONS)
- Project Identification
- 603437
- Project Period
- 10/2013 - 9/2018
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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European Union
- 7th Specific RTD Programme
- Cooperation
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- doc. Ing. Branislav Vrana, PhD.
- doc. Mgr. Klára Hilscherová, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Jiří Novák, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Krzysztof Okonski, Ph.D.
- Tatsiana Rusina, Ph.D.
- Cooperating Organization
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Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH-UFZ
- Responsible person Dr. Werner Brack
SOLUTIONS will deliver a conceptual framework for the evidence-based development of environmental and water policies. This will integrate innovative chemical and effect-based monitoring tools with a full set of exposure, effect and risk models and assessment options. Uniquely, SOLUTIONS taps (i) expertise of leading European scientists of major FP6/FP7 projects on chemicals in the water cycle, (ii) access to the infrastructure necessary to investigate the large basins of Danube and Rhine as well as relevant Mediterranean basins as case studies, and (iii) innovative approaches for stakeholder dialogue and support. In particular, International River Commissions, EC working groups and water works associations will be directly supported with consistent guidance for the early detection, identification, prioritization, and abatement of chemicals in the water cycle. A user-friendly tool providing access to a set of predictive models will support stakeholders to improve management decisions, benefiting from the wealth of data generated from monitoring and chemical registration. SOLUTIONS will give a specific focus on concepts and tools for the impact and risk assessment of complex mixtures of emerging pollutants, their metabolites and transformation products. Analytical and effect-based screening tools will be applied together with ecological assessment tools for the identification of toxicants and their impacts. Beyond state-of-the-art monitoring and management tools will be elaborated allowing risk identification for aquatic ecosystems and human health. The SOLUTIONS approach will provide transparent and evidence-based lists of River Basin Specific Pollutants for the case study basins and support the review of the list of WFD priority pollutants.
Publications
Total number of publications: 34
2022
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Comparing total and accessible concentrations of hydrophobic organic contaminants in sediments and suspended particulate matter in the Danube River
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, year: 2022, volume: 29, edition: 27, DOI
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Passive Sampling of Waterborne Contaminants
Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, edition: Vyd. první, year: 2022, number of pages: 35 s.
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The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry
Environmental Sciences Europe, year: 2022, volume: 34, edition: 1, DOI
2020
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Application of equilibrium passive sampling to profile pore water and accessible concentrations of hydrophobic organic contaminants in Danube sediments
Environmental Pollution, year: 2020, volume: 267, edition: December, DOI
2019
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An improved design of a passive sampler for polar organic compounds based on diffusion in agarose hydrogel
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, year: 2019, volume: 26, edition: 15, DOI
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Analytical and bioanalytical assessments of organic micropollutants in the Bosna River using a combination of passive sampling, bioassays and multi-residue analysis
Science of the Total Environment, year: 2019, volume: 650, edition: February, DOI
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Effect-based methods are key. The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS recommends integrating effect-based methods for diagnosis and monitoring of water quality
Environmental Sciences Europe, year: 2019, volume: 31, edition: February, DOI
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Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures
Environmental Sciences Europe, year: 2019, volume: 31, edition: February, DOI
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Investigating levels of organic contaminants in Danube River sediments in Serbia by multi-ratio equilibrium passive sampling
Science of the Total Environment, year: 2019, volume: 696, edition: DEC 2019, DOI
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Let us empower the WFD to prevent risks of chemical pollution in European rivers and lakes
Year: 2019, type: Article in Periodical (without peer review)