Universities and research institutions

DIATI Official site of the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering of Politecnico di Torino.

CORILA The Consortium for the coordination of research activities in the lagoon of Venice, which coordinates also the environmental monitoring activities in the MOSE building sites, to which our group participates.

Associations

GEAM Association of environmental engineering, founded in Politecnico di Torino and publishing two journals – GEAM (Geoingegneria Ambientale e Mineraria) and IGEA (Ingegneria e Geologia degli Acquiferi) – and organizing many conferences.

ANIGHP is the Italian association of installers and designers of Ground Source Heat Pumps, aiming at fostering the diffusion of this technology in Italy.

Research projects

GRETA is a cooperation project funded by INTERREG Alpine Space 2014-2020. The main aim of GRETA is to foster the diffusion of near-surface geothermal energy (NSGE) in the Alpine regions.

NanoRem (Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment) is a research project, funded through the European Commission FP7.  It focuses on facilitating practical, safe, economic and exploitable nanotechnology for in situ remediation.

REGROUND Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The REGROUND project focuses on developing a high technology available for the low cost market that can be applied to prevent emission from sources such as contaminated sites, or to remove contaminants from bank filtration zones.

AQUAREHAB is a EU financed large scale research project (FP7 ENV 2008.3.1.1.1.) that is being coordinated by VITO. The project aims at developing innovative rehabilitation technologies for soil, groundwater and surface water to cope with a number of different contaminants within heavily degraded water systems.

Forum, community, software

FEFLOW Official site (and forum) of a famous finite-element code used in groundwater modelling.

GEOLOGI.IT Italian forum of geologists and hydrogeologists.

Matlab Central A forum that helps with Matlab and uploads .m files.

Others

Ecosia Search engine, based on Yahoo and Bing, donating 80% of its revenues to the WWF projects for the safeguard of the Amazon Forest.

Credits

GW logo design by Matteo Zaghi from Design ProDe, edited by Mabel Papeo

Content creator and translator of the website: Sofia Credaro

Background picture by Dan Mayers downloaded from Unsplash

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