Scientific projects

Major grants

2023-2026: TerraChem, From soils to apex species: chemical pathways, effects and impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services and applications for better chemicals management, (European Union). Total project budget: 6,4 M €

2022-2029: PARC, Partnership for the risk assessment of chemicals. Total project budget: ~400 M €

2018-2022: LIFE APEX, Systematic use of contaminant data from apex predators and their prey in chemicals management, LIFE17 ENV/SK/000355 (European Union). Total project budget: 3,3 M €

2019: EMBLAS Plus, EU/UNDP Project: Improving environmental monitoring in the Black Sea. Analysis of water framework priority substances and screening of black sea specific pollutants in water biota and sediment samples obtained during the National Pilot Monitoring Studies and Joint Open Sea Surveys and risk assessment of identified pollutants (UNDP). Total project budget: 3.8 M €

2019: JDS4, Joint Danube Survey 4 funded by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). Total project budget: ~100k €

Smaller grants

2019-2022: Screening study on hazardous substances in marine mammals of the Baltic Sea (project number 149847) funded by the German Environment Agency.

2019-2022: CONnECT project: Wide-scope target and suspect screening of emerging contaminants and their transformation products in marine biota samples from the North-East Atlantic

2020-2022: HELCOM Pre-EMPT: Pre-empting pollution by screening for possible risks. Funded by the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) under the Baltic Sea Action Plan Fund.

2020: Monitoring of Dnieper river basin funded by the EU-funded program European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+)

2019: Investigative monitoring of the Dniester River Basin funded by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Investigative monitoring of the Dnieper river basin funded by the EU-funded program European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+)

2018: Research on identification of chemical status of surface and ground water bodies of the Siverskyi Donets river by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

2017-2022: Strengthening of Capacities for Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Montenegro Contract No.383-638  EuropeAid/138151/DH/SER/ME.