Environment

The Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) department comprises more than 200 life, environmental and IT scientists and engineers across three research units. These units bring together the necessary interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to tackle the major environmental challenges our society is facing today, including climate change mitigation, ecosystem resilience, sustainable energy systems, efficient use of renewable resources, and environmental pollution prevention and control.

research units

Environmental sensing and modelling / Environmental and industrial biotechnologies / Environmental sustainability assessment and circularity

Priority areas

Environmental and Industrial Biotechnologies
Space-enabled solutions for the environment and agriculture
Renewable energies and energy systems
Water resource management
Quantification of the impacts of human production and consumption activities on the environment and natural resources
Support of environmental, agriculture and health policies

Equipment and facilities

Across the Environmental Research and Technology platform, LIST offers a wide range of standardized and made-to-measure services in the fields of testing, measurement, analysis, innovation management and methods. The platform hosts laboratory facilities for chemical and biological analyses (Greentech), as well as important field facilities (LIST’s Observatory for Climate and Environment).

Central to LIST’s “smart green” vision is increasing its collaboration with industry. The establishment of a Green Tech Innovation Centre (GTIC-L) linking the public and private sectors targets the goal of contributing to the realization of the national circular economy strategy. Sectors identified include construction and industry, renewable energy, organic waste, agriculture and food, soil remediation and use, and water.

AskREACH

Help consumers and businesses apply the “right to know” about extremely concerning substances present in consumer articles via innovative IT tools.

CASCADE

Create a new tool based on satellite Earth observations and hydrodynamic models, in order to better evaluate large-scale flood hazard.

CCI-LANDCOVER

Validation of the SAR-based CCI water bodies product

CHAPEL

Regional climate change projection based on the RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 emissions scenarios for the Greater Region.

Clim4Vitis

International knowledge transfer for an integrated approach on European viticulture

CLOMICS

Omics-assisted characterization and enrichment of the phylum Cloacimonetes for a better anaerobic digestion performance.

COMBI-CAST

Towards a smart distribution grid operation through a combined photovoltaic forecasting approach.

Digital Pilot Farms

Taking advantage of digitization for protecting crops and environment

DigitalDeConstruction

Develop an innovative digital decision support system to reduce waste within the construction sector and the huge CO2 emissions of the industry.

e-shape

Generating a satellite Earth Observation-based flood inundation record with and for end users

EFFECT

Integrating the spatiotemporal effects of vegetation water uptake on catchment travel-times and runoff generation processes.

gENESiS

Energy management system for smart sustainable buildings : planning, operation and optimal integration in the smart energy.

Hydro-CSI

Contributing to the exploration of new and interdisciplinary research avenues to overcome limitations in our current understanding of catchment functioning.

IMPLICATE

Towards a deeper understanding of the behaviour of nanoparticles from agriculture and traffic sources.

LoRaSAT

Integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Satellite Communication (SATCOM) for smart agriculture applications.

LuCoIIGS

Promoting the use of and facilitating the rapid access to Copernicus satellite data.

MonESCA

With the help of drone data, a yearly monitoring of the esca will be established which shall allow a better understanding of the disease.

NANOGAM

Understanding the mechanisms of nanomaterial toxicity on freshwater invertebrates.

REFUND

Providing reliable metrics to assess the environmental sustainability of green bonds and funds

RiskGONE

Towards a better risk governance of engineered nanomaterials

SemanticLCA

A new value proposition in the life cycle assessment of buildings and districts, that factors in multi- aspects real-time data to attenuate the environmental impacts of our built [...]

SENSECO

Enabling optical synergies to better characterize and predict the dynamic response of vegetation in changing conditions.