Programme: Water4All – European Partnership

Call: 2024 JOINT TRANSNATIONAL CALL on “Water for Circular Economy”

Project acronym: AquiCirc

Project title: “AquiCirc – Managed Aquifer Recharge for a Circular Water Future.”

Description: AquiCirc project aims to advance the understanding of physical, chemical, and biological processes governing Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) systems, with a focus on the fate of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in complex hydrogeological settings. Through the development of advanced numerical models, the project addresses key knowledge gaps related to surface–subsurface flow, reactive contaminant transport, and the coupling between hydrological and biogeochemical processes. All activities are exclusively oriented toward the production of new scientific knowledge, with no development of prototypes, industrial processes, or commercial applications.

Project starting date: 01/04/2026
Project end date: 31/03/2029
Duration: 36 months

Partner: 
1. Wageningen University, Department of Environmental Sciences (The Netherlands) (Coordinator)
2. Università degli Studi di Padova – Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (Italy)
3. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringEngineering (Spain)
4. National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Department of rural engineering water and Forests (Tunisia)
5. Stellenbosch University, Department of Earth Sciences (South Africa)
6. University of the Western Cape, Environment and Water Science (South Africa)
7. Io-Things (Belgium)

For University of Padova:
Total Project Cost: 188.500,00 Euro
Funded Amount: 131.950,00 Euro
Coordinator: Prof. Matteo Camporese - Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering