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The work to be develop in the TRAGUA programme is structured around 5 subject activity blocks; (i) Coordination, (ii) Technical scientific, (iii) Training, (iv) Dissemination and Transfer and (v) Demonstration. All together it involves 18 activities which contain 53 Tasks (figure 2).
The diversity of the activities and tasks requires the necessary effort to carry them out to be both diverse as much in the number of groups involved as in their sequence during the period of the project or the intensity of the effort. Thirty of the activities are scientific-technical or demonstration-based and constitute the fundamental core of the programme. They are activities which involve the global analysis of the situation of the wastewater effluents emitted by Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) in Spain, and the demonstration of the advantages that the utilisation of advanced treatments mean through the selection of the best technologies, the most suitable chemical and toxicological analytical methods for water quality evaluation; the solution of problems related to the changes in scale-considering additional economic contributions for that- and the selection of the physical and biotic medium. All of these bearing in mind that the socio-economic concerns play a decisive role in the decision making process. On the other hand, the vast amount of knowledge generated has to be disseminated through a training programme, which consists of nine activities. These activities include: two Masters; participation in PhD programmes (RD. 56/2005 de Postgrado); the training of the researchers incorporated through the “Juan de la Cierva” and “Ramón Cajal” Programmes; the mobility of the researchers involved in the TRAGUA network as well as the training for the technicians related to water recycling activities. The dissemination of the different activities has a vital importance in order to inform and promote the importance of the reuse of water and its acceptance in the society. Five tasks are dedicated to these dissemination activities. The coordination activities in a very extensive heterogeneous and complex programme such as TRAGUA are decisive to carry it out correctly. There are seven tasks dedicated to these activities. Two of them are focused on administrative management and five focus on the generation of the suitable conditions for the assessment committees-in particular, the External Assessment Committee- to evaluate them correctly, as well as to create the necessary information flows between the internal Committees which allow every researcher associated to the TRAGUA programme to have all the generated information available in real time. Furthermore, it will be relevant to facilitate the interchange of information via meetings of the researchers on the TRAGUA project and external researchers connected to it. Even though many activities are carried out by various groups, most of them based in diverse fields of knowledge – in practice, 25 tasks (around half of the total) are performed by the majority of the groups together, so we can consider this sum of tasks as being transversal. The milestones of the work plan will generate 35 deliverable report – 5 of them will focus on evaluation; 12 on continuous monitoring and the rest will be technical reports of various kinds, such as technical index cards or thematic maps; 5 books of abstracts; 5 sets of guidelines of reuse; a simulation model; two Masters programmes; short courses; a large number of press releases to the media; meetings with institutions, companies and end users related to water questions in general; 3 research projects dealing with infrastructure demonstrations and an internet web site. The project will fulfil its global objective given that the following principal milestones are achieved:
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