PIVOTS Programme

The PIVOTS project is a coordinated set of seven experimental and analytical platforms focused on environmental quality monitoring and sustainable management of natural resources (soil, subsurface, surface water, groundwater, sediment and air) within a context of global change (increased anthropogenic pressure and climate change).

The innovation through PIVOTS will be founded on an integrated approach based on excellent research by academic and industrial experts together at all stages of the value chain, from fundamental research to validation of products and services.

The platforms are identified as:

• DECAP: Development of Environmental Sensors and Pollutants Removal Processes
• PRIME: Remediation and Innovation in the Service of Environmental Metrology
• O-ZNS: Observatory of transport in the Unsaturated Zone
• PERMECA: Testing and Research Platform in Collaborative and Applied Environmental Mechanics
• PESAT: Soil - Atmosphere exchanges in peat bogs
• PESAA: Soil - Atmosphere exchanges in Agricultural soils
• PRAT: Atmospheric Reactivity

The teams involved originate from BRGM (French Geological Survey), University of Orléans, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), INRA (National Institute for Agricultural Research), Antea Group (consulting and engineering), DREAM (cluster of enterprises) and LE STUDIUM (Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies).