📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/10/2023
End Date: 30/09/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 3,930,226 €
EU Contribution: 2,358,135 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
GREENLIFE4SEAS stems from the urgent need to find out sustainable solutions for two strong environmental concerns: the fate of 200 millions of m3 of sediments, often contaminated, dredged in EU every year and the disposal of 490,000 tons/year of shells, as one of the most impacting EU aquaculture wastes. GREENLIFE4SEAS aims at demonstrating the technical feasibility, full safety and commercial viability of breakthrough solutions for in-situ recovery and reuse of dredged harbour sediments and shells, that are used as secondary raw materials for the realisation of sustainable by-products by means of an optimised mixing technology. The project is founded on three main pillars: 1. The realisation, at the real scale, of four innovative by-products (i.e., shell powder, paving blocks, breakwaters, stabilised mass) for the building sector mainly made by the reuse of shells and dredged sediments (after decontamination, if polluted) and produced directly in-situ by an original mixing technology. 2. The development of a sound and viable business model for the in-situ collection and treatment of mussel shell and dredged sediments based on the prototypal technology of a mobile plant (GL4S) producing the new by-products (paving blocks, breakwaters, stabilised mass). 3. The overcome of the regulatory barriers through the definition of a specific authorisation protocol for the reuse of dredged sediments for engineering solutions, as the pilot by-products to be realised throughout GREENLIFE4SEAS. GREENLIFE4SEAS is carried out by a triple-helix model of Consortium, where synergy among research capitalisation, industrial symbiosis and governmental partners as primary stakeholders is the key to innovation and sustainable growth in a knowledge-based economy. GREENLIFE4SEAS results will epitomise a concrete contribution to improve the EU environmental policy for waste management, circular blue economy and aquaculture.
