We contribute to numerous national and international collaborative projects, providing our expertise in Engineering and the ability to build specific project teams by integrating the necessary talents, both for ongoing projects and the future development of ixsane.
We invest in innovation to accelerate the circular economy, enhance territorial resilience in the face of climate challenges, address energy issues, and manage or reduce contamination in natural environments.
In addition to the engineering services offered by the Engineering Department, we propose short, medium, or long-term collaborations on innovative topics involving expert collaboration with scientific experts and public or private research institutions, both within France and internationally.
Leveraging our scientific teams and a network of national and European partners, we tailor partnerships to realize projects aimed at developing new products, services, or technologies to meet the future challenges of our clients and society.
Integrating environmental challenges into business strategies generates significant new needs.
To accelerate our clients' innovation, we mobilize our teams of Doctors, Engineers, and necessary scientific partners to carry out and coordinate tailored R&D services to address their challenges:
Climatechange Adaptation for and with Sediments
ClimASed will provide river managers with a strategy, place based actionplans, methodologies, guidelines & networks to increase capacity to embedclimate change impacts in sediment management strategies and local initiatives.
ClimASed will increase the uptake ofsediment management measures for long-term integrated and resilient rivermanagement for a changing climate affecting sediment load, transport andavailability, water quality and habitat suitability.
ClimASed will increase the capacityof North West Europe river authorities to include climate change impacts in sedimentmanagement strategies and deliver a joint strategy and action plans taken up inthe upstream, intermediate and downstream sections of rivers.
The pilot sites and case studies will come from the Scheldt (FR, BE),the River Shannon (IE), and the Rhine (GER).
Ixsane plays a key role to definesediment management strategies & actions plans in a climate changeperspective and supports their implementation, considering local and political challengesfrom river sources to estuaries. This is done in collaboration withinternational experts to consider soil and riverbank erosion, sedimenttransport and local sediment budget, and impacts of extreme climate for waterquality and sediment-based habitats.
The ClimASed project is funded bythe European INTERREG NWE programme and the ERDF fund.
Start date: January 2025
End date: December 2028
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Sediment Uses as Resources In Circular And Territorial EconomieS (SURICATES)
Flood and erosion risk management actions requires large amount of raw material while sediment manager have to deal with large excess of sediment.
SURICATES project aims to make ambitious sediment reuse projects possible in Europe for flood and erosion protection.
To do this, new solutions to increase fine sediment reuse in coastal & erosion protection markets will be implemented and experimented for roll-out:
Territorial global cost and benefits optimisation focused tested in South or Ireland and Britany (France).
SURICATES Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Start of the project: 2017
End of the project: 2023
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REGENERATIon of past metallurgical Sites and deposits through innovative circularity for raw materials
Metal working industry represents 13 % of Potential Contaminated Sites (PCS) in the EU. While recent metallic waste streams are usually treated, older waste (aggregated material with high ferrous metal content, scrap, other metals, white and black slags and other streams) are considered as a source of pollution, expensive to manage/eliminate.
NWE-REGENERATIS aims to transform this problem into an opportunity, as large volumes of resources can be recovered by urban-mining.
To do this, the NWE-REGENERATIS project aims to test and implement on 3 sites new methodologies and innovative technical approach for new economic models for resource recovery from former metallurgical sites and deposits.
This includes a site inventory structure adapted to the objective of material recovery and the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms as decision support, potential studies by geophysical techniques, innovative material recovery techniques uses and synthesis of catalysts from plants planted on contaminated sites.
NWE-REGENERATIS Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
· Total budget ERDF: € 4.26 million
· Total budget: € 7.10 million
Start of the project: 2019
End of the project: 2023
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Operational R&D project for improving the management of the sanitation network of the Urban Community of Dunkirk (59).
Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks – Implementation of an information and alert system, improving knowledge of local actors' roles and surface flow.
Functional Mapping of Channels
Improvement of real-time management of the sanitation network of the Valenciennes agglomeration (59).
Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks aimed at protecting the natural environment.
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