General Informations
Project period
36 months
01.08.2011-31.07.2014
Expected results
- Formation and promotion of a group of Nicaraguan experts for management and rehabilitation of contaminated sites, especially in bioremediation
- Interactive open-access research website for bioremediation
- Establishment of experimental sites, analysis of their soil and collections of plants and micro-organisms in Nicaragua and Peru
- Empowerment of Mesapata pilot plant system in Peru
- Training of PhD students from UNAN and UNSAM in UNIVIE about structure and function of plants (Katy Medina)
- Training of a PhD student from UNIVIE in UNAN about soil microbes (Stefan Sassmann)
- Training of members of UNAN in UNASAM for the establishment of an own post-gad curriculum for management of contaminated sites
- Installation of a streaming system for electronic transfer of lectures and lab courses given in the partner institutions and of a common eLearning platform concerning hm relevant topics
- Interactive database, collection of scientific information, providing know-how exchange
- Publication of scientific results in scientific journals.
- Lectures and production of informative texts and photo/video material about the outcome of know-how exchange for the population who lives near Crucitas mine
- Co-operation in each other´s scientific investigations and education, especially in the established post-graduate course of UNASAM and in the development of a post-grad curriculum in UNAN
Main relevant activities
- Establishment of an adequate education infrastructure and curriculum for diploma and post-graduate studies of management and rehabilitation of contaminated sites, especially in the field of bioremediation and natural attenuation at IGG/CIGEO in Managua.
- Establishment of streaming technology at all involved partners to participate each other´s research and education activities, field studies, video conference, etc.
- Establishment of project website and bioremediation database.
- Production of video clips as result of interactive action learning processes by streaming technology, providing of videos at project website.
- Determination of 2 appropriate sites, preferably in property of the universities in Managua and Austria, preparation for experimental plants, selection of plants and micro-organisms, training of staff, final establishment of experimental plantations.
- Improvement of Mesapata experimental site.
- Collection of scientific information and investigation results, data input, online tools for users, open source providing information about our results in a project database.
- Collection of adequate plants and microorganisms for investigations on bioremediation.
- Mutual field research expeditions and meetings of scientists in Nicaragua, Peru and Europe.
- Exchange of know-how by co-operation in each other´s scientific investigations via internet and in working groups, exchange of plants and micro-organisms for mutual research activities.
- Individual training for students of UNAN and UNASAM at UNIVIE and of UNIVIE in UNAN
- Annual reports, final report, publications in scientific journals of north and south.
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University of Vienna
Core Facility
Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research
BIOREM
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Vienna
Austria
Core Facility
Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research
BIOREM
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Vienna
Austria