Programme
Interreg Euro-Med
TM role
Partner
Duration
01/01/2024 - 30/09/2026
Total Budget
€2,501,582
TM Budget
€283,520

TREASURE
Testing novel environmental quality measures in and around Euro-MED ports

Objective of the project
TREASURE’s overall objective is to improve environmental quality in and around Mediterranean port areas, by mitigating and reducing sediment and water pollution.

Port areas become both the final accumulation site for chemicals from anthropic activities and a cause of pollution, which represents a significant environmental risk for marine biodiversity, surrounding areas and a risk to human health.

The overall objective of TREASURE is to improve environmental quality in Mediterranean ports and in their surrounding areas by mitigating and reducing sediments and water pollution.

The project intends to improve environmental quality in Mediterranean port areas through testing integrated transnational, multi-stakeholder support frameworks that merge three multidisciplinary elements:
- an ecosystem with multiple stakeholders to create open pilot laboratories;
- an integrated approach for assessing environmental quality;
- a testing of innovative techniques for the remediation of degraded and polluted port areas.

Consortium
The lead partner and coordinator is ASEV-Agenzia per lo Sviluppo Empolese Valdelsa Spa (Italy) and other project partners include ISPRA (Italy), the Port of Bar (Montenegro), Fundación Valenciaport (Spain), Port Authority of Durres (Albania), Pôle Mer Méditérranée - Toulon Var Technologie (France), the Port Authority of Piraeus (Greece), Central European Initiative (CEI) – Executive Secretariat and the Authority for Transport in Malta (TM).

Transport Malta’s role
The Authority has joined the Consortium as one of the Project Partners and will be involved in all work packages to meet the Project Objectives. Transport Malta will be using the Port of Valletta as a test bed to conduct the following:

- set-up a ‘mini-lab’ concept to conduct the necessary analysis of the quality of the environment at pre-defined locations in the Port;
- testing of new approaches for the environmental quality assessment in through a multi-line of evidence;
- testing of novel techniques for the treatment of contaminated water and/or sediments.

Transport Malta has teamed up with the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) as a stakeholder to provide the necessary technical support during local project activities.

For further information please send an mail to response.tm@transport.gov.mt or visit project website https://treasure.interreg-euro-med.eu/