Tema povpraševanja:

Identifier: FP5-2005-SSP- 5-A (Objava razpisa: 22 December 2004; Rok za prijavo: 22 Marec 2006)

1.5. Environmental assessment (soil, water,air,noise, including ther effects of chemical substances Task 6: Assesssing the health risks of environmental stressors)

Organizacija, ustanova:

Institute for Ecology of Industrial areas Katowice, Poland

Kontaktna oseba:

Dr Maria Antosiewicz
National Contact Point FP6
Priority 6.3 "Global Change and Ecosystems"
ul.Swietokrzyska 21
00-049 Warszawa, Poland
Email: dantosi@ippt.gov.pl
tel: (+48-22) 55-42-005
(+48-22) 828-74- 83
mobile: (+48) 0502-052-238
fax: (+48-22) 828-53-70

Ali

Dr. Eleonora Wcislo
Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas
6 Kossutha Street,
40-844 Katowice, Poland
E-mail: wci@ietu.katowice.pl 
Tel + 48 32 254 60 31,
Fax + 48 32 254 1717

Priloga:

Short description of the organisation:

Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland (IETU) is an RTD unit acting under the Polish Ministry of Environment. IETU staff consists of 101 members including 68 scientists. IETU conducts R&D activities aimed at enforcement of the sustainability principle in environmental management as well as legal, institutional and organisation settings for restoration of the contaminated environment. IETU has extensive experience in realisation of international projects It has been involved in a total of 24 EU funded projects includinf Eu FP5 and EU FP6, some of which address the issue of human health risk assessment components e.g. NORISC, INCORE, URBAN-EXPOSURE, WELCOME, IMAGE-TRAIN. Since 1995, based on a direct agreement for co-operation closed between the Institute and the Department of Energy of the United States of America, IETU has conducted a collaborative technology research and development program with Florida State University and the U.S. DoE. The programme included components related to assessing human risk resulted from exposure to environmental stressors. For the needs of governmental administration, regulatory bodies or local authorities IETU develops assessments and strategies for improving environmental quality in highly urbanised and industrialised areas, strategic visions, environmental state analyses, audits and assessments. IETU was co-ordinator and executor of the National Programme “Environment and Health” as well as author and one of the executors of the National Brownfields redevelopment Programme “REWITARE”. In the research area addressing environmental stressors IETU has experience in adapting human health risk assessment methods to the needs of environmental management, assessment of human exposure to toxic metals by determining biomarkers in biological materials.

Proposed contribution to the project:

Developing indicator-based methods for assessing health effects related to environmental contamination with chemicals. Evaluation and harmonization of environmental health indicators for supporting environmental and health policy in contaminated areas.

References (publications, others):

Wcislo E., Dlugosz J., Korcz M. 2005. A Human Health Risk Assessment Software for Facilitating Management of Urban Contaminated Sites: A Case Study: The Massa Site, Tuscany, Italy. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Vol. 11, No 5, 1005-1024. Wcislo E., Dlugosz J., Korcz M. 2005. Application of a Human Health Risk Assessment Software to support revitalization decisions at post-industrial sites. NATO/CCMS Pilot Study - Prevention and Remediation In Selected Industrial Sectors: Mega-Sites. 2005 Annual Report. Number 273. EPA 542-R-05-027. North Atlantic Treaty Organization/ Committee on the Challenges on Modern Society, July 2005. Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Canada, June 12-15, 2005 (Abstract p. 29). Gzyl J., Wcislo E., Biesiada M., Gzyl G., Krupanek J. 2004. Health risk assessment due to groundwater contamination. Ingegneria e Geologia degli Acquiferi, No. 19. (pp. 101-108). Wcislo E. 2004. NORISC- Human Health Risk Assessment (HRA) software. Conference: Sustainable Urban Management and Land Use – From European research to application at local level (Exhibition and Demonstration of Tools), organised by the European Commission and the Senate of the Czech Republic, supported by the Municipality of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic , 1-2 July 2004 (Abstract p. 45). WcisB_o E., Ioven D., Kucharski R. Szdzuj J., 2002: Human health risk assessment case study: an abandoned metal smelter site in Poland. Chemosphere, 47, 507-515. Wcislo E., Gzyl J., Korcz M., 2003. Human health risk assessment framework for contaminated site revitalisation. Proceedings of the 8th International FZK/TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil, 12-16 May, Gent, Belgium, pp. 3080-3082. Wcislo E., Korcz M., Dlugosz J., 2003. Human Health Risk Assessment Module as a Part of the Decision Support Software System for Investigation/Assessment/Revitalization of Contaminated Sites in Urban Areas. Sixth International Symposium & Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central & Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Prague 2003, Prague/Czech Republic, 1-4 September 2003. Symposium Program _ Abstract, pp. 206-207. WcisB_o E., Dutkiewicz T., KoD_czalik J., 2002. Indicator-Based Assessment of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects in the Industria