BRIDGE DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
A) CONTRIBUTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
1. Common Forum on Contaminated Land – Vienna (Austria), May, 12- 13, 2005 (UBA-A). BRIDGE project presentation
2. Second European Conference on Natural Attenuation, Soil and Groundwater Risk Management - Frankfurt am Main (Germany), May, 18-20, 2005: Science-policy integration needs preparing common approaches to manage groundwater resources in Europe (poster) (UBA-A)
3. VI Simposio del Agua en Andalucía - Sevilla (Spain), June, 1-3, 2005: Criterios para la identificación de valores límite de contaminantes en agua subterránea. Proyecto BRIDGE (IGME)
4. EWRA 2005 (European Water Resources Association) – Menton (France), September, 7-10, 2005: Presentation of the BRIDGE Project - Background Criteria for the Identification of Groundwater Thresholds (BRGM and WP chairs)
5. International Conference “Vulnerable Aquifer Preservation:
Comparing European Experience” – Perugia (Italy), 8th September 2005 “BRIDGE – Background Criteria for the Identification of Groundwater Thresholds” (UBA- A)
6. The Central European and European Union Standards on the Assessment of the Industrial and Mining Environmental Pollution – Warsaw (Poland), September, 21-24, 2005: Criteria for environmental pollution of industrial and mining areas assessment in Spain. The European BRIDGE Project (IGME)
7. European Conference on Water Framework Directive…the baseline.
The Geological Society - London (United Kingdom), September, 22nd, 2005. Implementing the Water Framework Directive and characterising baseline groundwater conditions. Work progress in Spain and BRIDGE Project (IGME)
8. CONSOIL 2005 – Bordeaux (France), October, 3-7, 2005 (Lecture Session A.1: Policy on Contaminated Land Management):
Background Criteria for the Identification of Groundwater Thresholds (UBA-A and BRGM)
9. IAH-Conference (International Association of Hydrogeologists - Alicante (Spain), October, 4-8, 2005: Background Criteria for the Identification of Groundwater Thresholds. Presentation of the BRIDGE Project (IGME).
10. Workshop on Groundwater Bodies in Europe and Adjacent Countries – Berlin (Germany) , October, 25-26, 2005; Natural background values and threshold values – the European BRIDGE Project (HLUG) 11. Meeting of the Slovene section of the International association of
Hydrogeologists (IAH) – Laibach (Slovenia), November, 22nd, 2005:
Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Austria, Groundwater quality aspects – procedures applied and current state” (UBA-A)
12. Seminar on Groundwater Modelling - Water Framework Directive INFRA 21268, 17-20 January 2006, Sandanski (Bulgaria) organised in co-operation with Executive Environment Agency of the Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgaria; with financial support of TAIEX. Bridge Project presentation (Executive Environment Agency) 13. AQUAinMED International Congress "Ground Water in
Mediterranean Countries” 24 - 28 April 2006 Malaga (Spain).
Organised by IGME, Madrid School of Mines and Málaga University (IGME)
14. The European Groundwater Conference held during the Austrian Presidency, 22 – 23 June 2006 Vienna, AUSTRIA. Organised by Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency) of Austria (UBA- A-BRGM)
15. Groundwater- present status and future task XXXIV Congress of IAH, October 9 - 13 Beijing (CHINA). Organised by IAH and the Ministry of Land and Resources of China (IGME)
16. Final BURVAL Conference – Hannover (Germany), November 29-30, 2006: Towards sustainable groundwater management – Policy Aspects and Environmental Thresholds (UBA-A)
17. HERACLES Workshop - Derivation methods of soil screening values in Europe (Jointly organized by the Joint Research Centre and DG Environment), Ispra (Italy), February, 5-6, 2007: BRIDGE – Proposals to derive Environmental Groundwater Threshold Values (UBA-A)
18. WFD Lille 2007 – Water Status Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Context of the Water Framework Directive; Lille (France), March,12-14, 2007: Establishing Environmental Groundwater Quality Objectives (UBA-A)
19. Meeting organised by the Danish Engineering Association (IDA), Copenhagen, March, 26, 2007 “The European Groundwater Directive, contents and implementation”: Derivation of environmental thresholds for pollutants of groundwater bodies, Description of the methodology for threshold derivation elaborated in the BRIDGE project (UBA-A)
B) PRESENTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL NATIONAL AUTHORITIES
1. Information about BRIDGE Project and discussions within the Flemish Government with OVAM (= Flemish Waste Agency) and AMINAL (Flemish Administration for Environment, Nature Land and Water Management) (VITO)
2. Preparation and presentation of information about BRIDGE project to Ministry of Environment and to Government of Republic of Lithuania in relation to the project “Impact assessment for the implementation of the directive of the EP and of the EC on the protection of groundwater against pollution (COM 550) (LGT)
3. Information about AETS and BRIDGE sent to: Innovalis Aquitaine - Agence Régionale de Soutien à l'Innovation. Bureau Europe Rémi VIGNES Centre Condorcet (AETS)
4. Information about BRIDGE achievements to the Ministry of Environment of Spain in a conference dedicated to the Groundwater Directive implementation organised in Madrid in January 2007 5. Efforts to promote the general results of BRIDGE and introduce the
interested public to the methodology will be continued during 2007 by presentation at national meetings (see e.g. invitation to the Danish national meeting, March, 2007).
C) INFORMATION TO PROJECTS RELATED TO OTHER DIRECTIVES
1. The results have been communicated to a related policy support project concerning soils (ENVASSO - approaches for soil monitoring and the assessment of soil status) and will be further communicated and discussed towards ongoing activities related to the Soil Thematic Strategy (e.g. see HERACLES-Workshop, Ispra, February 2007).
D) INFORMATION PUBLISHED BY TECHNICAL MAGAZINES
1. Groundwater eNews. It is the e-mail news service of the International Association of Hydrogeologists and is produced approximately every two months. In the July 2005 issue, under the title of EU Groundwater related research projects, information about BRIDGE were provided to the members of IAH. IAH has over 3,500 members in 135 countries
