Photopur and nEcoTox

Over the next three years, nEcoTox will be an associated partner in the Interreg V Projekt PHOTOPUR be supportive.

Background:

Within the framework of the Science Offensive, a competition of the Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine (TMO), the research project PHOTOPUR is one of seven winners to be funded with 750,000 euros. Under the leadership of the University of Koblenz-Landau (Institute of Environmental Sciences, WG Ecotoxicology and Environment) is to be developed together with university partners from the Alsace region (University of Strasbourg; ICPEES), Baden (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences; INES) and Rhineland-Palatinate (DLR Rhineland-Palatinate), a new purification process will be established to reduce pesticide contamination in surface waters from viticulture.

nEcoTox will be supported by the other associated project partners of the Julius Kühn-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants; Siebeldingen, Rhineland-Palatinate) and of the DLR Moselle (Bernkastel-Kues, Rhineland-Palatinate) will support the PHOTOPUR research consortium with advice and assistance.

You can find further information on the project's own PHOTOPUR-Homepage.

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