PROJECT
Baltwreck
Preventing massive marine waters chemical pollution from the leaking wrecks and munition/ weapon dumps in the South Baltic
PROGRAMME
Total budget: 3,830,285.76 €
ERDF funding: 3,064,228.60 €
Duration: 2024–2027
Lead Partner: Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences
Consortium: 14 partners from Poland, Lithuania, Germany and Sweden
PROJECT
OBJECTIVE
The BALTWRECK objective is to contribute to reducing pollution of the Baltic Sea by hazardous fuel, munitions and other remains of shipwrecks by jointly developing, demonstrating and implementing wreck management methods.
EXPECTED
RESULTS
Results will include:
- efficient wrecks diagnostics methods,
- in-situ remediation technologies for hazardous fuels from wrecks as well as munition and explosives,
- testing the developed solutions in at least 3 pilot locations, and
- examining the toxicological risk for marine ecosystems caused by dumped munitions and hydrocarbon deposits.
Last but not least, the recommendations for policy makers, local marine and cities administration will be formulated.
The project aims to include municipalities located in the vicinity of wrecks in the decision process, by raising awareness of decision makers and general public via a series of workshops and conferences, as well as public information campaign.
KEY AREAS
The BALTWRECK project concentrates on four key areas:
Policy
Risk Assessment
& decision making
Remediation
Public Awareness
PROJECT
PARTNERS
The BALTWRECK Consortium consists of 14 partners and is coordinated by the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery PAS.
1. Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences (https://www.imp.gda.pl)
2. University of Gdańsk (https://ug.edu.pl)
3. Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic (https://eurobalt.org.pl/en/home-en)
4. Gdynia Maritime University (https://umg.edu.pl/en)
5. Klaipeda University (https://www.ku.lt/en)
6. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (io-warnemuende.de/en_index.html)
7. JT Ship Service Tomasz Jatkowski
8. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (https://www.geomar.de/en)
9. Nature Research Centre (https://gamtostyrimai.lt/en)
10. Chalmers University of Technology (https://www.chalmers.se/en)
11. German Environment Agency (https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en)
12. North.io LtD. (https://north.io/en)
13. CLEANERGY LtD. (www.bioecoph.pl)
14. Jagiellonian University (https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/start)
PROJECT
NEWS
Signature of the Subsidy Contract
It gives us immense pleasure to inform that the subsidy contract for the realization of BALTWRECK project was officially signed on Oct 21, 2024 in Gdańsk (Fig.1), during the signing ceremony, attended by the Polish Deputy Ministers of Funds and Regional Policy, Jacek Karnowski and Konrad Wojnarowski. At the headquarters of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych im. R. Szewalskiego, Polska Akademia Nauk (IMP PAN)), the official signing of contract for project funding under
Baltwreck Project Kick off 17-18.09.2024
We are pleased to note that project entitled: „Preventing massive marine waters chemical pollution from the leaking wrecks and munition/weapon dumps in the South Baltic” was officially kicked-off on 17-18 September’24 in Gdańsk! The Project BALTWRECK objective is to contribute to reducing pollution of the Baltic Sea by hazardous fuel, munitions and other remains of shipwrecks by jointly developing, demonstrating and implementing wreck management methods. This first physical gathering of project partners was also followed by the open Conference held
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