GENESIS – Groundwater and Dependent Ecosystems

GENESIS - Groundwater and Dependent Ecosystems is an integrated project in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Full title
Groundwater and Dependent Ecosystems: New Scientific and Technological Basis for Assessing Climate Change and Land-use Impacts on Groundwater (GENESIS)
Total Cost
9.170.600 €
Contribution from the European Commission
6.997.200 €
Duration
60 months (start April 2009)
Consortium
25 partners from 17 countries

• Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk), Norway
• University of Oulu (UOULU), Finland
• Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (JR), Austria
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
• Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
• University of Bucharest (UB), Romania
• GIS-Geoindustry, s.r.o. (GIS), Czech Republic
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
• Wageningen University and Research Centre (Alterra), The Netherlands
• Institute of Groundwater Ecology (HMGU), Germany
• Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewässerschutz (EAWAG), Switzerland
• University of Science and Technology (AGH), Poland
• Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC), Italy
• Integrated Global Ecosystem Management Research and Consulting Co. (IGEM), Turkey
• Polytechnic University of Valencia(UPVLC), Spain
• Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Greece
• Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Poland
• University of Neuchâtel (UNINE), Switzerland
• University of Ferrara (UNIFE), Italy
• Athens University of Economics and Business- Research Centre (AUEB-RC), Greece
• University of Dundee (UNIDUN), United Kingdom
• University of Zagreb - Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering (UNIZG-RGNF), Croatia
• Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
• University of Manchester (UNIMAN), United Kingdom

Project Coordinator
Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk), NORWAY
Project Objectives
The objective of GENESIS is to integrate pre-existing and new scientific knowledge into new methods, concepts and tools for the revision of the Ground Water Directive and better management of groundwater resources. The research will:

• link the present knowledge to an integrated model from sources of pollution to the recipient ecosystem,
• improve the understanding of pollutant leaching from different land-uses both in time and space considering also uncertainty,
• develop a better understanding of how ecosystems depend on groundwater,
• understand how changes in land-use and climate affect Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems, and
• develop better cost-efficient management and monitoring tools and transfer the research results to stakeholders and end-users for better management.

Web site
www.thegenesisproject.eu