Purpose of the Industry Sub Group
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NICOLE is considered as the principal forum that European industry uses to develop and influence the technical state of the art in contaminated land management in Europe. NICOLE's goal is to enable European industry to identify, assess and manage industrially contaminated land efficiently, cost effectively and within a framework of sustainability. NICOLE has an active ISG, with 27 industrial company members, many from the (petro)-chemical sector. Other sectors represented are metals refining, construction, mining and gas, all facing (historical) contaminated land problems.

"Divyesh Trivedi, Johan Defraye and Anja Sinke with the NICOLE flag at a former mining site in France"
The ISG is led by its chairman (Anja Sinke, BP), assisted by the Secretariat (Lida Schelwald, Port of Rotterdam). The ISG meetings are held 3 times a year usually coupled to NICOLE network meetings.
Expertise sharing in ISG:

The ISG key aim is to develop and promote management of industrially contaminated land based on risk and sustainability, based on a commonly accepted cost-effective approach. To achieve this, the ISG uses several ways of expertise sharing to give direction to technology development in Europe and the Member States . A main emphasis lies on the development of practical methods and tools.

The industry subgroup members sign a confidentiality agreement so that a free flow of information and expertise is facilitated. At ISG meetings one of the members gives a company presentation enlightening company ambition and current (technical) challenges.

Other means of expertise sharing and input to technology development are:

·   NICOLE (applied research) projects,

·       Participation in the Working groups, which are often related to the European directive and the MS implementation.

·      Interaction with major European networks

Participation in review panels of major research programs 

 

 

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