• UP-GRADE BS-SCENE: Up-grade Black Sea Scientific Network, EC FP7 Research Infrastructures, 2009-2012.
• RADPAR: Radon Prevention and Remediation, EC Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, contract nr 2008 1217, 2009-2012
• PERGAMON: Permafrost and gas hydrate related methane release in the Arctic and impact on climate change: European cooperation for long-term monitoring, European Concerted Research Action COST Action ES0902, 2010-2014 (www.cost-pergamon.eu)

• Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Belgium): Statistical and geostatistical analysis of the radon database of risk zones in Belgium, 2009-2010.

• INTAS: Assessment of the Feasibility of CO2 Storage in the Russian Permafrost, INTAS N 06-100025-9220, 2007-2009
• Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Belgium): Radon mapping of municipalities located in potential risk zones in Belgium, 2004-2008.
• EC FP6: Black Sea Scientific Network (BLACKSEASCENE), contract No 022868, 2005-2008
• INDUWASTE: Management and Remediation of Hazardous Industrial Wastes in the Western Balkan Countries, EC INCO SSA Contract n° 515919, 2005-2006, IBES coordinator.
• INTAILRISK : Assessment of Environmental Risk for Use of Radioactively Contaminated Industrial Tailings, contract n° INCO-CT-2004-509214, 2004-2007, IBES coordinator.
• CRIMEA: Contribution of High-intensity Gas Seeps in the Black Sea to Methane Emission in the Atmosphere, contract n° EVK-2-CT-2002-00162, 2003-2006, IBES participant.

The project aims at proposing management and remediation practices for hazardous industrial wastes in the 5 Western Balkan Countries, considering their effects on the environment and on human health. It concerns principally wastes from coal mining and coal processing plants, aluminium industry, and phosphate industry.

The primary ore for these industries contains toxic substances that are concentrated in the industrial wastes. The harmful elements from industrial wastes may come in contact with the general public when they are dispersed in air or water, when they are dispersed on cultivated soils, or when they are used for concrete building products, or as disposal in engineered surface impoundments and landfills.
The project considers the environmental and the health risk resulting from the wastes and their by-products in their immediate neighbourhood, the risk from dispersal in the environment particularly through surface and groundwater, up to the absorption of toxic substances by agricultural and animal products and the contamination of the ecological chain.

The project proposes management and remediation practices, aiming at minimizing risk at waste disposal sites, in accordance with EU legislation, as well as an adapted legislation for waste management and environmental protection in the WBC, referring to the existing Directives of the European Union.
The results of the project are distributed a.o. through: a project website on the Internet, the organisation of a short course on waste management practices, by making risk assessment methodology and best practices available to students, civil servants and the society, by promoting the establishment of an environmental network in the WBC, initially comprising the project partners, later extended to additional partners.