Annual-Report-2019

ARD 2020 PIVOTS
PIVOTS - Environmental Technology Innovation, Development and Optimisation
Platforms project.
The PIVOTS project is a coordinated set of seven experimental and analytical platforms
focused on environmental quality monitoring and sustainable management of natural
resources (soil, subsurface, surface water, groundwater, sediment and air) within a
context of global change (increased anthropogenic pressure and climate change).
The innovation through PIVOTS is founded on an integrated approach based on excellent
research by academic and industrial experts together at all stages of the value chain,
from fundamental research to validation of products and services.
The platforms are identified as:
DECAP: Development of Environmental Sensors and Pollutants Removal
Processes
PRIME: Remediation and Innovation in the Service of Environmental
Metrology
O-ZNS: Observatory of transport in the Unsaturated Zone
PERMECA: Testing and Research Platform in Collaborative and Applied
Environmental Mechanics
PESAT: Soil - Atmosphere exchanges in peat bogs
PESAA: Soil - Atmosphere exchanges in Agricultural soils
PRAT: Atmospheric Reactivity
ARD 2020 Programme 2019
The teams involved originate from BRGM (French Geological Survey), University of
Orléans, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), INRAE (National Research
Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment), Antea Group (consulting and
engineering), DREAM (cluster of enterprises) and LE STUDIUM (Loire Valley Institute
for Advanced Studies).
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