iMERMAID

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Project challenge & objective: 

To safeguard the Mediterranean Sea basin from contaminants for emerging concerns (CoEC), iMERMAID will integrate, coordinate, and synergize innovative preventive, monitoring, and remediation solutions. iMERMAID will build an evidence-based multidimensional framework that will guide policymaking and transform societal perceptions to reduce CoEC usage, emissions, and pollution. Furthermore, next generation sensor and remediation solutions will be developed within iMERMAID to monitor and remove prioritized chemicals from its source while reducing upstream pollution. iMERMAID builds an ideal interdisciplinary team by bringing together prominent SMEs, researchers, regulators, and innovation professionals who have been essential in improving the knowledge and awareness of CoEC. Beyond state-of-the-art techniques, iMERMAID will strive to strengthen regulations against CoEC, expand economic possibilities and competitiveness, improve the standard of living for EU residents, while preventing the accumulation of chemical pollution in the Mediterranean Sea basin. iMERMAID will empower the efforts to create a zero pollution, contaminant free waters by enabling the Chemical Strategy’s goals to become a practical reality. 

Role of CMMI:

• The developed monitoring technologies for chemical pollutants will be tested for one year using two oceanographic buoys that are already deployed off the coast of Limassol. 
• Investigation on how introduction of innovative technologies including analytical tools dedicated for field micropollutants monitoring, and other proposed by the project might support present practices and drafting proposal for regulatory solutions to accommodate protection based also on the outcomes of the use-cases, focusing on three important policy dimensions: a) Policies, b) Regulations, c) Standards. 

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