Seven water projects recommended for funding

Seven transnational collaborative research projects in the field of water quality have been recommended for funding.

The projects responded to the 2013 Water JPI Pilot Call, with a total budget of €9m. This call for proposals focused on ‘Emerging water contaminants-anthropogenic pollutants and pathogens’.

Following the evaluation of the received proposals by an international panel, the consortia recommended funding for: FRAME – a novel Framework to Assess and manage contaminants of Emerging concern in indirect potable reuse; METAWATER – new METAgenomics and molecular-based tools for European scale identification and control of emergent microbial contaminants in irrigation; and MOTREM – integrated processes for Monitoring and Treatment of Emerging contaminants for water reuse.

Also set to receive funding are: PERSIST – persistence and fate of emerging contaminants and multi-resistant bacteria in a continuum of surface water groundwater from the laboratory scale to the regional scale; PROMOTE – Protecting water resources from Mobile Trace chemicals; StARE – Stopping antibiotic Resistance Evolution; and TRACE – Tracking and assessing the Risk from Antibiotic Resistant genes using Chip technology in surface water ecosystems.