The main objective of the workshop are: to review the progress of projects funded under 1.4 Pollution Prevention of the Water Key Action of the Environment and Sustainable Development Programme (FP5) to build the bridge between FP5 and FP6 to inform about new instruments of FP6 and to discuss both their scientific and project management ascpects to identify future short-, medium- amd long-term priority research tasks Project actively involved in the workshop: ABACUS, AGRIBMPWATER, CORONA, DESPRAL, DIMDESMOTON, EUGRIS, GRACOS, IMIS, IMAGE-TRAIN, INCOLE, LIBERATION, MAROC, METALBIOREDUCTION, ORGONATE, PEGASE, PEREBAR, PHYTODEC, PIRAMID, PROWATER, PURE, SEDNET, SENSPOL, SOWA, TRACE-FRACTURE, WATCH, WELCOME