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
2015
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High-throughput concentration-response analysis for omics datasets
Toxicol. Environ. Chem., year: 2015, volume: 34, edition: 9, DOI
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Linking in Vitro Effects and Detected Organic Micropollutants in Surface Water Using Mixture-Toxicity Modeling
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, year: 2015, volume: 49, edition: 24, DOI
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Passive sampling: chemical analysis and toxicological profiling
Joint Danube Survey 3. A Comprehensive Analysis of Danube Water Quality, year: 2015, number of pages: 12 s.
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The SOLUTIONS project: Challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management
Science ot the Total Environment, year: 2015, volume: 503, edition: JAN, DOI