TREASURE (Euro MED)

Project title:

Testing novel environmental quality measures in and around Euro-MED ports

Project Acronym:

TREASURE

Programme priority:

Greener MED

Specific objective:

RSO2.7: Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution

Project duration in months:

33

Project Total Budget:

2.501.581,50€

PPA SA Budget:

328.160,00€

Funding:

80% EU contribution

Project description:

Human activities cause unprecedented environmental changes in coastal and marine ecosystems.

Port areas become both the final accumulation site for chemicals from anthropic activities and a cause of pollution that is difficult to contain. This represents a significant environmental risk for

marine biodiversity and surrounding areas and a risk to human health. Within this overall challenge, TREASURE identifies 3 sub-challenges:

CHALLENGE 1: GOVERNANCE – need for cross-sector and cross-cutting governance frameworks to improve environmental quality in port areas.

CHALLENGE 2: MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY – need for a common and advanced monitoring framework, able to assess impact and pressures on port environments.

CHALLENGE 3: NOVEL TECHNIQUES –need to support commercialisation and roll-out of new techniques to remediate polluted sediments and water.

Our approach, capitalising on previous projects, merges 3 multi-disciplinary Action Lines to address the core challenges and produce the integrated TREASURE solution (key output):

ACTION LINE 1: Multi-stakeholder Supporting Ecosystem for the creation and management of territorial labs.

ACTION LINE 2: New approaches to environmental assessment, through application of an integrated matrix of criteria and using the Lines of Evidence approach for qualitative evaluation.

ACTION LINE 3: coordinated sourcing and experimentation of novel techniques for pollution reduction in sediments and water, allowing for validation in industrially relevant conditions.

This integrated approach is novel, as is our proposal for multi-stakeholder labs, our Lines of Evidence approach and our focus on novel techniques.

Transnational cooperation is necessary to achieve our objectives, both due to the common challenges that we address and to the innovative approach that we propose.

Project Objective:

TREASURE’s overall objective is to improve environmental quality in and around Mediterranean port areas, by mitigating and reducing sediment and water pollution.

Partnership:

LEAD PARTNER: ASEV

PP2: ISPRA

PP3: Port of Bar

PP4: Fundacion Valencia port  

PP5: Durres Port Authority

PP6: PMM – TVT

PP7: Transport Malta

PP8:Piraeus Port Authority SA

PP9: CEI – Executive Secretariat