5 European procurers facing a common challenge together to leverage public demand and identify fit-for-purpose and cost-effective innovative and sustainable solutions to soil decontamination.
The common challenge faced by the POSIDON buyers’ group is identifying a soil (and eventually groundwater) remediation new, life-cycle, cost-effective technology, preferred as in-situ (and eventually on-site), to be capable of decontaminate heterogeneous anthropic soils in brownfield, composed by a mixture of industrial waste (like filling soils highly polluted by Petroleum Hydrocarbons) and soils consisting on clays and sands, highly polluted by Petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs and PAHs), and heavy metals.

Schedule
12:30
Registration and welcome light lunch
13:30
Opening Greetings
13:45
POSIDON joint cross-border pre-commercial procurement for soil decontamination
a challenge and an opportunity for the market
Sara Bedin, European Expert on Innovation Public Procurement and POSIDON partnerEuropean industrial contaminated soils: problem, common needs and POSIDON challeng
Martina Terconi, Area Science ParkTrieste “exEZIT” contaminated brownfield in Italy
Eric Marcone, Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic SeaBilbao “Zorrotzaurre” contaminated brownfield in Spain
Mikel Gonzalez Vara, Bilbao City CouncilWallonia “Horloz” contaminated brownfield in Belgium
Marta Popova, SPAQuEVitoria- Gasteiz “Jundiz” contaminated brownfield in Spain
Juan Vilela Lozano, Environmental Studies Centre - Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council
15:00
Coffee break
15:15
The state of the art: presentation of innovative and advanced commercial solution and relevant R&D&I projects in the field
Presentations from interested economic operators (active participants: Group De Cloedt, CENTRE TERRE ET PIERRE, SUEZ, Ivey International-Terra Correct, University of Hasselt, Haemers Technologies, Université Bourgogne Franche – Comté, iFLUX)
Questions and answers with the audience
16:30