European Co-ordination Action for
Demonstration of Efficient Soil and Groundwater Remedation.
Guidelines & Support for Demonstration Projects
This section of EURODEMO is focused at potential remediation practitioners, particularly technology vendors, and aims to loosely explain the demonstration process as a sequenced list of considerations which should be addressed throughout the stages of a good quality remediation demonstration project. The section includes links away to relevant EURODEMO reports and appropriate sites and organizations throughout Europe which may be of assistance.
The stages described in undertaking a demonstration project are from the perspective a potential demonstration practitioner, sufficiently developed as a business to have been through “technology innovation (patenting)”, R&D, treatability studies, and are up to, or are considering, pilot scale field applications. If you are presently not yet at this stage towards your technology’s overall development, guidance can be found on the 
US EPA’s Vendor Support page.
Technology for Markets
Markets do not buy technology, rather, customers buy solutions provided by technologies. Thinking in terms of your technology providing solutions for customers is perhaps a better way of becoming increasingly commercialised and avoids the misleading visualisation of a single market and of commercialisation being achieved at a certain point in development. Thinking in terms of potential customers and solutions also indicates that the process of demonstration is not all about applying a technology, but requires necessary earlier steps, such as finding your potential customers, through knowing the capabilities of your technology and having undertaken market research. Understanding the capabilities of your technology in combination with different geological media and other contaminants, will allow you to better define and then find the kind of site conditions where your technology can provide a suitable solution.