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Project Q4301507 in Poland
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Decision Aid for Marine Munitions - Practical Application |
Project Q4301507 in Poland |
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660,000.0 Euro
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904,116.17 Euro
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73.0 percent
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1 August 2019
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31 July 2021
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Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IOPAN)
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54°27'5.94"N, 18°33'42.55"E
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Thousands of tons of historically dumped munitions, both chemical and conventional, still pollute the Baltic Sea with complex negative effects for marine environment, the economy and humans as seafood consumers. The INTERREG BSR 2014-2020 project DAIMON (www.daimonproject.com) addressed the environmental impacts and biological effects of dumped munitions Baltic sea and Skagerrak, and in particular the question how to proceed with the identified and mapped warfare objects. The most important DAIMON output is the Decision Support System (DSS) for marine administrators – a software which, given the facts about the localization and type of the ammunition object, analyzes the risks and suggests remediation options. The DAIMON project was very successful in terms of awareness-raising about the dumped munitions problem in the BSR among its target groups – most importantly the national authorities responsible for the management of the Baltic Sea environment (environmental agencies, maritime administrations, military, spatial planning and coastguards). However the practical application of its main outputs, the DSS and the EcoTox Toolbox for the assessment of munitions impact on biota has not reached a satisfactory level. In order to change that, DAIMON 2 is going to utilise the created awareness and the lessons learned about the users’ needs for its targeted capacity building campaign featuring practical demonstrations and training as well as seminars for executive staff. The user feedback will moreover help to optimize both these tools in order to make them simple in application, cost-efficient and secure in terms of handling sensitive data. Notably also the Baltic offshore investors and consultancies are showing great interest in DAIMON’s results. In DAIMON 2 we want to cooperate closer with this target group, offering them methodologies from the scientifically renewed DAIMON EcoTox Toolbox, which have the capacity to become the new Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for offshore economy projects in areas contaminated by dumped munitions. The HELCOM SUBMERGED group, JPI Oceans and the newly established NATO STO Group are among our strategic international partners, who will help us to develop and promote the DAIMON EcoTox Toolbox as the above mentioned SOPs for the Baltic Sea. Another practical application of the SOPs will be the ESPOO convention on EIA in transboundary context, which currently does not address dumped munitions specifically. DAIMON 2 aims to change that by proposing an amendment based on the worked out in DAIMON solutions. International agreement on the SOPs will bring more clarity and fairness to stakeholders of EIAs in areas affected by dumped munitions. This would shorten the offshore planning processes in future, while at the same time protecting the marine environment from the risk of toxic substance release from the disturbed munitions and sediments. (English)
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