EMERGING CONTAMINANTS IN COASTAL SYSTEMS: DISTRIBUTION AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS. FROM THE LAB TO THE FIELD.

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Cádiz Province (NUTS ES612); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 192,390; EU co-financing EUR 153,912 (co-financing rate 80%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-12-30 to 2020-12-29. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS BEAR THE IMPACT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUMEROUS SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN ITS FUNCTION, ECOSYSTEMIC SERVICES AND BIODIVERSITY NEED TO PRESERVE AND PRESERVE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. ONE OF THE MAIN EFFECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON MARINE ECOSYSTEMS IS CHEMICAL POLLUTION. AMONG THE BROAD SET OF SUBSTANCES WHOSE FINAL DESTINATION IS THE SEA ARE THE SO-CALLED EMERGING POLLUTANTS, WHICH INCLUDE COMPOUNDS OF DIFFERENT CHEMICAL NATURE, WHOSE EFFECTS ARE HARDLY KNOWN. THE PROJECT REQUESTED FOCUSES ON THREE TYPES: NANOPARTICULATES (CADMIUM QUANTUM DOTS, SILVER), PHARMACOS (ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, ANTIBIOTIC AND ANTIDEPRESSANTS), AND MICROPLASTICS (POLYSTYRENE). IT AIMS TO ESTABLISH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMERGING POLLUTANTS AND THEIR SUBLETHAL EFFECTS IN ORGANISMS THROUGH A THREE-LEVEL APPROACH, WHICH INCLUDES: a) DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF Multispecies/MICROCOSMES WITH DOS SPECIES OF MARIN FITOPLANCTON (Phaeodactylum tricornutum AND NANOCHLOROPSIS GADITANA), A crustaceo (Artemia SP), A bivalve MOLUSCO (Scrobicularia PLANA), and the MICROBIOMING IN WATER AND SEDIMENTS, TO ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCY CONCENTRATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL COMPOSES AND FOR YOUR MICLES. B) The development of bioassays with a range of samples. C) CAMP sampling in LITORAL DIVERSAS GEOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS. the PROJECT will develop AND apply MASIVO ANALISIS Methodologies, METAOMIC DISTINTS AND CHARACTERISATION OF REDOX SUBPROTEOMA, AND AS physiologic, Biochemical and FUNCIONAL RESPONSES IN STUDED ORGANISMS. THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF POLLUTANTS, THEIR BIOAVAILABILITY AND TROPHIC TRANSFER WILL ALSO BE ANALYSED. THE PROJECT WILL INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE IMPACT OF EMERGING POLLUTANTS, AND THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS ON MARINE SYSTEMS TO ULTIMATELY CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROTECTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. THE PREDICTION OF ANTROPICOS RISKS, SUCH AS THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH POLLUTION, WILL THUS PROMOTE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS. the PROJECT is also active in connection with [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on the distribution and biological effects of emerging contaminants in coastal systems, specifically in Cádiz Province, Spain. It is co-funded by the EU with a total budget of EUR 192,390, running from December 30, 2016, to December 29, 2020. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.