General information about the project

Acronym: IMAGE-TRAIN

Project No: EVK1-CT-2001-80002

Programme: EESD

Competition No: EESD-ENV-99-2

Key Action: 1 - Sustainable Management and Quality of Water

Type of project: Accompanying Measures

Status: ongoing project (July 2001 – June 2004)

Project duration: 3 years

Co-ordinator: Mrs. Gundula Prokop, Federal Environment Agency, Spittelauer Laende 5, 1090 WIEN – AUSTRIA

IMAGE-TRAIN is expected to establish topic-links between RTD projects dealing with innovative groundwater management and to promote their practical application and to transfer existing and emerging knowledge to young scientists and academics in the European Union and the EU Accession Countries. IMAGE-TRAIN is an accompanying measure towards cost-effective and eco-efficient remediation technologies for groundwater resources in Europe. It aims at identifying related and complementing topics of current RTD projects concerning cost-effective groundwater management approaches and at establishing topic-links. The RTD projects INCORE, PEREBAR and PYRAMID, which are currently funded within FP5, will form the basis to establish such topic-links. In the course of IMAGE-TRAIN other relevant RTD projects shall be identified and considered to extend the clustering process.

Main objectives of IMAGE-TRAIN are

• to establish topic-links between RTD projects dealing with innovative groundwater management and to promote their practical application, and

• to transfer existing and emerging knowledge to young scientists and academics in the European Union and the EU Accession Countries.

Major focus of this project is to establish an efficient knowledge and information transfer towards the scientific community and potential end-users, with specific emphasis on the situation in EU Accession Countries. This will be achieved by:

• three Advanced Study Courses for academics and young scientists,

• clustering of running RTD projects along 3 Cluster Meetings, and

• application of findings along practical case studies.

Public access to the obtained results and information will be provided through the project’s webpage , reports, newsletters, and technical/scientific workshops.

Within the consortium IETU will represent a key link to the Accession Countries.

IETU is consortium partner of the research project INCORE (Integral Concept for Groundwater Remediation), a project within the 5^th EU Framework Programme and is hosting and co-ordinating the Risk Abatement Centre for Europe (RACE). IETU's scientific input will focus on risk analysis, environmental pollution impact on soil and plants, safe agricultural production on arable lands in polluted areas and contaminated land management.

IETU will be responsible for local organisation of one Advanced Study Course and providing scientific contribution to all Technical Clustering Workshops and project deliverables (web-site, newsletters, CD-ROM, proceedings of TCWS and ASC), participates in the selection of trainees for the ASC and contribution to selection and elaboration of case studies.

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