Action E.1 Project management
Deliverable Ε1.1: Project Management Board meeting, Report including, agenda, signed list of
participants, minutes approved by all beneficiaries, Deliverable Ε1.2: Steering Committee Report including, agenda, signed list of participants,
minutes approved by all beneficiaries, Deliverable Ε1.3: Technical Committees Report
In the frame of the Project three types of Meetings have been carried out. Specifically, the Meetings of the Technical Committee (TC) which was comprised by experts in different fields who met regularly to discus and solve technical issues of the Project. Twelve such meetings were held. The Meetings sometimes were held in the form of a teleconference. The technical and supportive documents discussed are annexed in this document along with the participants list and the agendas of these Meetings.
The Meetings of the Steering Committee were scheduled to address administrative issues and decide on issues related to administration and finance. For this reason, they were not stand-alone events; they were following TC Meetings when the Leaders of each Beneficiary were present. Four in total meetings were held. The topics discussed are presented herein along with the participants list and the agendas of these meetings.
Last, the Project Management Board Meetings were held once per year and were once again combined with TC of SC meetings. The only difference was that only Leaders and the BPI Director or the Director of the Finance Department were present.
Because of the combined organization of these meeting at this stage a common report is submitted jointly covering D-Ε1.3. D-Ε1.2 D-E1.1
Deliverable Ε1.4: Progress Report Submitted to EASME on 30/06/2020
Deliverable Ε1.5: Mid-Term Report (Pre-financing Payment Request)
Deliverable Ε1.7: Report of Procurement Principles
The procurement principles applying in Greece and Spain for public entities like Benaki Phytopathological Institute, National Center of Science “Demokritios”, the University of Almeria and the Copperative of Zagora are presented. The respective to the procurement Laws are Annexed to this Deliverable. These laws and principles have been followed by the Beneficiaries for all procurements of the period 1/9/2018 to 30/04/2020.
Annexed: Greek law N.4412/2016. 44336 Miércoles 31 Octubre 2007 BOE núm. 261.
For more info, please contact Dr E. Markellou (e.markellou@bpi.gr).
Action E.2 Audit
Action E.3 After Life plan
The technical scale and foreseen output will allow the implementation and/or continuation of the proposed solution to deliver credible environmental and economic benefits. Specifically, the following actions will be taken:
- A list of potential end-users of W & WWT technology from all the commercial sectors i.e. FVP industry, Biological Treatment of Urban Wastewater, Domestic Applications for Tap water deodorization will be compiled,
- A continuous system promotion through advanced networking and the influence of the current water market trends towards more energy efficient, economical and green W & WWT systems will be applied.
Typical activities that will be performed during or after the end of the project include:
- Market/competitor analysis
- Marketing Activities
- Continuation of the PNFR prototype testing in ZAGORIN
Identification of new potential partnerships will be performed by the project Beneficiaries who are directly involved to the FVP industry and have affiliation with the W & WWT industry. The development of a credible business plan including investment analysis, the marketing plan and the market analysis activities will be utilized for this purpose.
Compilation of a dissemination and communication plan
The PNFR prototype can be directly promoted and commercialized within the Beneficiaries of the current consortium, who have a well-established business network of contacts and collaborations with industrial stakeholders participating in: the SEV-Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, the Praxis Network and the Federation of Hellenic Food Industry. Moreover, many of the Beneficiaries industrial collaborators (having provided letters of intent) participate and sponsor international conferences and win international contracts for the development of systems for treated wastewater reuse, which are highly relevant to the PNFR technology. Their intention to participate in the Steering Committee of the project indicates the potential marketability of the system. Apart from short presentations in potential customers, participations in conferences and advertisement, a major tool for disseminating the project’s results and highlight the validated advantages of the PNFR prototype is the organization of two Workshops where the overall PNFR integrated system along with its expected benefits will be explained to the attendees.
Preparation of a Policy Plan to be communicated to Policy makers
As part of the activities implemented in the framework this Action especially of those related to the preparation of a Policy Plan for communication with the Policy makers, the regulatory framework will be expanded to include the Directive on Environmental Quality Standards, (Priority Substances Directive). After the 1st year, meetings will be organized with pre-defined agenda between policy stakeholders to discuss gaps identified in Legislation regarding priority substances and how results of these project could be integrated/utilized for policy uptake.
In this context, the activities under this task ill have a dual target:
- To set up of a policy dialogue to achieve the establishment of EU standards for reuse of wastewater in irrigation (i.e. establishing regulation on minimum quality requirements for reused water in agricultural irrigation and aquifer recharge).
- To establish an inventory of emissions, discharges and losses of priority nonconventional substances from the food processing industry and to maintain their concentration below the EQS, after having achieved to classify the PNFR technology as a BAT technology for the abatement of prioritized substances in wastewater. In specific, our strategy will be to establish effluent limitations that will reflect the PNFR-BAT technology. Beneficiaries will proceed to proposals to be submitted to the Ministries of Environment & Energy and Rural Development & Food and communicated to DG of Environment and DG of Agriculture etc.