Achieve Good Environmental Status for Coastal Infrastructures Construction
AGESCIC
Atteindre un Bon Etat Ecologique pour les Aménagements portuaires et côtiers
AGESCIC answers coastal works environmental challenges with a disruptive set of easy-to-use and cost effective solutions.
With more than 400 projects per year in the EU, coastal constructions are an important source of water pollution with turbidity and underwater noise. Those two major impacts can cause severe damage on the biodiversity, especially benthic fauna, fish, mammals, cephalopod, microalgae and seagrass.
The AGESCIC project aims at bringing new technology solutions to reduce the marine environmental impacts of coastal works, especially for the underwater noises and turbidity impacts, on marine fauna and ecosystems.
AGESCIC is related to the new European ocean protection strategy through the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) 2008/56 / CE (descriptors 6 and 7 for turbidity and 11 for underwater noise) to reach Good Environmental Status for oceans.
The AGESCIC project is the combination of 3 innovative technologies. Together they build a disruptive systemic full service solution :
• One noises mitigation and turbidity containment system : SubSea Quieter
• One real-time acoustic/turbidity impacts assessment and ecosystem monitoring system : SmartPAM+
• One system to avoid impacts and restore ecosystems for coastal fish population : AVOREST
This unique combination is a cost effective solution to answer coastal works environmental challenges.
AGESCIC is looking forward to gather a stakeholders group to be part of the development of the system and prepare its implementation along European coasts.
AGESCIC’s stakeholders group is open to public bodies, the coastal construction industry, scientists, researchers, environmental non-profit organizations (NGOs) and any other individual/organization involved in the field.
Stakeholders will provide their experiences and application cases. They can follow the project thanks to a dedicated exchange platform, an access to the latest updates and exclusive annual meetings.
Visit our dedicated stakeholder page to learn more and join us
The project has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Union
"Racket in the ocean: Why underwater noise matters, how to measure it, how to manage it"
A proposition paper by the Observatory for responsible innovation.
