The leaflet Improving wastewater management in the Baltic Sea Region presents the focus areas and major activities planned in the framework of the IWAMA project. IWAMA aims at improving resource efficiency in wastewater management of the region. The project actions are distributed along three main fields: capacity development, smart energy management and smart sludge management. The leaflet offers an overview of the planned activities including development of pilot investments, launching training webinars and holding workshops, among other events.

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Lead Partner
Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC)
Sustainable Cities Commission
Björn Grönholm
tel: +358 44 9075987
bjorn.gronholm@ubc.net
Vanha Suurtori 7
FIN 20500 Turku
www.ubc-sustainable.net
EUSBSR Flagship status for Priority Area “Nutri”
Budget: EUR 4.6 million
Duration: Mar. 2016–Feb. 2019
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In IWAMA the quality of sludge will be
measured and assessed during the sludge
management audits and key figure data
collection considering specific technologi­
cal and regional features. A uniform and
thorough guidelines for applying the au-
dit concept for smart sludge manage-
ment will be developed and tested. Nu-
trient removal process will be enhanced
through advanced sludge water treatment
and new low-cost solutions for sludge
hygienisation, stabilisation and drying.
Pilot investments:
yy Full-scale sludge humification beds
in Türi and Oisu WWTPs, EE
yy Reject-water treatment system
in Tartu WWTP, EE
yy Energy-efficient sludge drying
in Jurmala WWTP, LV
IWAMA will demonstrate on the macro re-
gional level how an improved mana­gement
of energy efficient nutrient reduction is ap-
plicable in varying sizes and advancement
levels of wastewater treatment facili­ties.
Reduction of nutrients and electrical en-
ergy consumption will be implemented
through the smart energy management
concept based on key figure data collec-
tion and audits in a wide range of WWTPs
in the region.
Pilot investments:
yy Nitrogen component control system
in Daugavpils WWTP, LV
yy Energy optimized control system
in Kaunas WWTP, LT
yy Full-scale advanced control system
in Grevesmühlen WWTP, DE
yy Combined anammox-constructed
wetland pilot-plant in Gdansk
WWTP, PL
Smart energy
management
Smart sludge
management
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IWAMA activities will enable structured
life­long learning and expertise exchange of
WWTP staff to increase mainstreaming of
the best available technologies and to pro-
mote the uptake of smart sludge and en-
ergy­management in WWTPs of the ­Baltic
Sea Region.
Activities include:
yy development of training materials
package on smart energy and sludge
management
yy 4 online training webinars
yy 6 international onsite workshops
yy 5 national dissemination events
yy facilitation of national knowledge
based communities of water experts
in BSR countries
Transferring knowledge and
know-how across the borders
Capacity
development
Improving
wastewater management
in the Baltic Sea Region
IWAMA
Interactive
Water
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Union of the Baltic Cities,
Sustainable Cities Commission,
Turku St.Petersburg Scientific
Research Centre for Environmental
Safety Russian Academy of Science
Turku Kakolanmäki
WWTP
Lahti Aqua Ltd
Environmental Center
“ECAT-Kaliningrad”
Communal Unitary
Manufacturing Enterprise,
“Minskvodokanal”, Minsk
Open Joint Stock Company,
“Slonimskiy vodokanal”, Slonim
Polish Water and Wastewater
Operators’ Association,
Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Sewage Management Facilities Lübeck Eurawasser
Nord GmbH
Rostock
BlueKolding
Kalmar
Water
Technical University
of Berlin
DWA Regional Group North-East,
Magdeburg
Aqua & Waste
International GmbH,
Hannover
Estonian
Waterworks Association,
Tallinn
Lahti University of
Applied Sciences
Linnaeus
University,
Kalmar
University
of Tartu
Kaunas Water Ltd
Environmental Center
“ECAT-Lithuania”,
Kaunas
Water and Sewage Company Ltd,
Szczecin
Joint Body Grevesmühlen,
Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal
Gdansk Water
Utilities Ltd
Tartu
Waterworks LtdTüri
Water
Daugavpils Water Ltd
Jurmala Water Ltd
Baltic Sea
Challenge,
Turku,
Helsinki
Universities
Water Associations
Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP)
Others
Associated Partners
Working together The Baltic Sea Challenge
initiative
The project will build up a strong
knowledge based transnational
network of water experts in the Baltic
Sea Region and challenge them to
make a concrete commitments for
improving the state of the Baltic Sea.
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IWAMA AIMS at improving the resource efficiency in wastewater management
in the Baltic Sea Region by developing the capacity of the water sector operators
and implementing pilot investments to increase the energy efficiency and advance
the sludge handling.
IWAMA ACTIONS are distributed along three main fields:
capacity development, smart energy management and smart sludge management.
to improve the state of the Baltic Sea
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Countries
17
Partners
Associated
Partners
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