AWARE – Aquaponics from WAstewater REclamation

在不影响自然栖息地、不依赖天然淡水供应和对气候变化的高度适应能力的情况下，提高欧洲每个城市在0公里处生产供人类消费的鱼类的能力，这一目标可以通过使用再生水在当地养殖鱼类来实现。欧洲缺乏允许这种价值链扎根的监管和政策框架，这也是因为缺乏令人信服的科学证据来证明安全、质量、经济可行性和社会可接受性。有了意识，我们希望消除阻碍再生水水产养殖成为欧洲现实的障碍。我们将展示我们的解决方案在水培再循环系统(RAS)中与物联网监控和自动化技术的无缝集成，以改善其运营和整体可持续发展指标。我们将在法萨诺镇(意大利普利亚)创建第一个再生水培养的欧洲案例研究，在那里我们将利用先前存在的H2020深度废水处理项目的成果。通过案例研究，我们将展示高效和可持续的再生废水水培技术解决方案-增加废水作为淡水资源的循环性，在产生废水的地方进行开采-创建新的从农场到餐桌的价值链，促进欧洲经济增长和城市KM0农业-为支持欧洲水产养殖的新监管和政策框架奠定基础该项目甚至将对一组志愿者进行人工干预(即喂养测试)，以获得所生产食品的安全性和质量的证据。同时，它将为欧洲共同体制定一种可持续的商业模式和战略，以便今后扩大试点解决方案的规模，包括将其应用于其他欧洲共同体和国际发展项目。我们的财团包括一个大型网络、一个欧洲以外的合作伙伴和一个国际组织。

AWARE sets out to increase capacity to produce fish for human consumption at KM 0 in every European city, with no impact on natural habitats, no dependence from natural freshwater availability, and high resiliency to climate change This goal could be met by farming fish locally using reclaimed water. Europe lacks the regulatory and policy framework to allow such a value chain to take root, due also to the absence of compelling scientific evidence of safety, quality, economic feasibility, and social acceptability. With AWARE, we want to remove the barriers preventing reclaimed water aquaculture from becoming a European reality. We will demonstrate seamless integration of our solutions in an aquaponic recirculation system (RAS) with IoT monitoring and automation technologies to improve its operation and overall sustainability metrics. We will create the first European case study for reclaimed water aquaponics in the town of Fasano (Puglia, Italy), where we will leverage the results of a pre-existing H2020 project on advanced wastewater treatment. With the case study, we will - Demonstrate technical solutions for efficient and sustainable aquaponics from reclaimed wastewater - Increase the circularity of wastewater as freshwater resource to be exploited where it is generated - Create a new farm-to-fork value chain, contributing to European economic growth and to urban KM 0 farming - Lay the ground for a new regulatory and policy framework in support of European aquaculture The project will go as far as conducting human intervention (i.e., feeding tests) on a panel of volunteers to obtain evidence of safety and quality of the produced food. In parallel, it will develop a sustainable business model and strategy for the for the future upscaling of the pilot solution, including its application to other European communities and in international development projects. Our consortium includes a large network, one extra-european partner, and one international organisation.