Preventing massive marine waters chemical pollution from the leaking wrecks and munition/ weapon dumps in the South Baltic (BaltWreck)

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Preventing massive marine waters chemical pollution from the leaking wrecks and munition/ weapon dumps in the South Baltic (BaltWreck)

BALTWRECK – Preventing massive marine waters chemical pollution from the leaking wrecks and munition/weapon dumps in the South Baltic

THE BALTWRECK OBJECTIVE is to contribute to reducing pollution of the Baltic Sea by hazardous fuel, munitions and other remains of shipwrecks by jointly developing, demonstrating and implementing wreck management methods. Results will include:
(1) efficient wrecks diagnostics methods,
(2) in-situ remediation technologies for hazardous fuels from wrecks as well as munition and explosives,
(3) testing of the developed solutions in at least 3 pilot locations,
(4) examining the toxicological risk for marine ecosystems caused by dumped munitions and hydrocarbon deposits.
(5) recommendations for policy makers, local marine and cities administration will be formulated.

THE PROJECT AIMS to reach a wide spectrum of target groups, including international, national and local policymakers, local citizens, researchers and other related stakeholders in the field of marine waters and its environmental protection.

THE BALTWRECK CONSORTIUM consists of 14 Partners, from 4 Baltic countries (Poland, Lithuania, Germany and Sweden):

  1. Coordinator – Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences (IMP PAN) (Poland)
  2. University of Gdansk (Poland)
  3. Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic (Poland)
  4. Gdynia Maritime University (Poland)
  5. JT Ship Service Tomasz Jatkowski (Poland)
  6. Jagiellonian University (Poland)
  7. Nature Research Centre (Lithuania)
  8. Klaipeda University (Lithuania)
  9. Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (Germany)
  10. GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (Germany)
  11. Umweltbundesamt – German Environment Agency (Germany)
  12. north.io GmbH (Germany)
  13. CLEANERGY LtD. (Germany)
  14. Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

ASSOCIATED PARTNERS:

  1. Environmental Protection Agency (Lithuania)
  2. Association of Sea Cities and Municipalities (Poland)
  3. Polish Register of Shipping Joint-Stock Company (Poland)
  4. Maritime Office Gdynia (Poland)
  5. Stegna Municipality, Tolkmicko Commune/RATUSZ TOLKMICKO (Poland)
  6. Pomorskie Voivodeship (Poland)
  7. Tourism Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany)
  8. State Agency for Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany)
  9. Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) – Suomen ympäristökeskus (Syke) (Finland)
  10. HELCOM – Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Finland)

THE TOTAL BUDGET OF BALTWRECK amounts to 3 830 000 Eur, including funding of 3 060 000 Eur from European Regional Development Fund via the Interreg South Baltic Programme.

DURATION: 2024-07-01–2027-06-30

 

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