Project title: MOKKA – Innovative Decision Support Tools for Risk Based Environmental Management in Hungary
Funding Programme: Hungarian National R&D Program
Project Identification Number: NKFP3-00020/2005
Project duration: 15. 09. 2005 – 15. 12. 2008
Project type: Consortial
Project partners:
Aqua Concorde Water Analysis and Water Technology Ltd. (Lead partner)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RISSAC)
Vituki Kht. Water Research Institute
Vituki Consult Co.
CycloLab Cyclodextrin R&D Laboratory Ltd (CycloLab)
DigiKom Ltd. (Digikom)
Association of Environmental Enterprises (KSZGYSZ)
Summary: The two main facets of Environmental Risk Management (ERM) include Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Risk Reduction (RR). Both ERA and RR use innovative integrated methodologies and technologies. The objectives of the project were:
- to provide more chance for Risk Based Environmental Management in Hungary
- to cooperate with all the relevant European projects (EUGRIS, EURODEMO, TESTNET, NICOLE)
- to collect all existing information on modern Decision Support Tools (DST)
- to establish a user-friendly DST for Hungarian and European end-users
- to increase trust in innovation
- to support the market entry of innovative methods/technologies
- to establish the basis for continuation of the MOKKA database
- to develop innovative Environmental Risk Assessment methods
- to develop innovative Remediation technologies for Risk Reduction
- to control, verify and validate the new methods
The Risk Based and Effect Based approach is essential not only for the Risk Management itself, but also for its main supporters: environmental monitoring and legal background. The practical implementation of the innovative testing methods and remediation technologies is slow. A deep virtual gap exists between the scientific-technical opportunities and the actually practiced methodologies The „Death Valley” is even more unbridgeable in Hungary. Most innovative methods/technologies are not put into practice, but disappear in the „Death Valley” after funding and demonstration. MOKKA aimed to support the survival of innovative Risk Assessement and Risk Reduction methods and their utilisation by the potential endusers.
