Project: Roots for remediation - collaborative phytoremediation in post-catastrophe environments

Facts about the project

Project manager
Ulyana Muñoz Acuña, William Hogland
Other project members
Valery Mykhaylenko, Inna Pitak, Anastasia Sholokhova, Piotr Rybarczyk, Mait Kriipsalu
Participating organizations
Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI), Lithuania. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia. Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. Linnaeus University, Sweden.
Financier
The Swedish Institute (SI)
Timetable
1st August 2024 - 31 July 2025
Subject
Environmental Engineering (Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences)
Research group
The Environmental Science and Engineering Group (ESEG)

More about the project

The current collaboration originated in the need for new efforts regarding recovering land after catastrophic events in the Baltic Sea region. The partners aim to support the necessary assessment of contaminated areas and to address the new environmental challenges in the region. The partnership will work on a joint effort into developing strategies to mitigate future post-catastrophic events in the Baltic region through the development of new bioremediation techniques. These will be adapted to solve immediate environmental problems appearing in contaminated catastrophic areas. This knowledge will be transferred to the rest of the Baltic region on how to systematically achieve large-scale environmental restoration. The partnership includes the following countries: Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. On-going programs for removing anthropogenic pollution have been developed at the partner institutions and will now be further adapted to new post-catastrophe environmental problems.

The project is part of the research in the research group The Environmental Science and Engineering Group (ESEG)