About
Project Overview & Mission
The Challenge:
Agricultural water reuse remains marginal across Europe and the Mediterranean – not because technologies are missing, but because systemic barriers prevent long-term adoption.
AYUMI is a direct response to fragmented governance, weak economic incentives, and persistent public concerns over emerging contaminants in treated wastewater like PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics.
By deploying modular, containerized treatment chains validated at TRL 7 – 8, co-designing dynamic tariff schemes, and anchoring replication pipelines into official basin strategies, AYUMI is shifting the paradigm from treating “wastewater” to managing a reliable, climate-proof circular asset.
Objectives & Ambitions
Scalability "By Number"
Deploying standardized, modular treatment units across local treatment plants rather than building massive infrastructure – enabling fast, low-risk water reuse.
Long-Term Knowledge Production
Building a multi-season scientific evidence base tracking soil, crop, and groundwater health, while sharing open, real-time data through our digital platform.
Agricultural & Economic Resilience
Embedding reuse flows into basin models to simulate climate stress, establishing fair, true-cost water tariffs that credit environmental benefits like fertilizer reduction and carbon savings.
Trust, Safety Assurance & Social Innovation
Addressing public and farmer safety concerns through Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Living Labs, transparent digital monitoring, and product quality certification.
Policy Integration & Public Commitment
Moving beyond stand-alone pilots by formally anchoring water reuse volumes into River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) and CAP eco-schemes.
Meet the Consortium
An integrated value chain of 18 dedicated partners advancing systemic innovation across Europe and the Mediterranean.
IRIS S.r.l.
Italy
SoftWater S.r.l.
Italy
Acquedotto Pugliese
Italy
Tomatiki Smart Solutions
Egypt
Aqlara Infraestructuras
Spain
University of Turin
Italy
F6S EU Tech Innovation Network
Ireland
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
Germany
Abwasserverband Braunschweig
Germany
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France
Particula Group
Croatia
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Greece
A.O.E.S. Tympakioy
Greece
Fraunhofer ICT
Germany
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Netherlands
PROYMATICA 21 S.L.
Spain
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
Italy
Technische Universitaet Berlin
Germany
Scientific Baseline & Project Heritage
AYUMI represents the mature convergence of over two decades of European R&I milestones.
Project Ô (2018–2022)
Developed the foundational modular treatment loops and space-scale planning toolkits, laying the groundwork for decentralized circular water management.
iMERMAID (2023–2026)
Innovative solutions for Mediterranean Ecosystem Remediation via Monitoring and decontamination from Chemical Pollution
The foundation
As part of its solutions iMERMAID developed advanced Pulsed Discharge Plasma (PDP) oxidation and digital monitoring frameworks to target persistent micropollutants and chemical threats.
The AYUMI Evolution
AYUMI scales these PDP treatment units to TRL 7 and embeds the digital monitoring components into the AYFlow platform for real-time agricultural water management.
SMARTWATER
Validated the continuous nutrient-tailoring sensors and low-impact membrane technologies that have now been seamlessly transferred to our agricultural nodes.
The Braunschweig Model
Integrates 70+ years of operational landscape reuse cycles, feeding our current Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) and systemic compliance baselines.
