The Robert Koch Institute (RKI): main building in Berlin. more
Germany’s Public Health institute RKI monitors the population’s health and wellbeing. more
The Robert Koch Institute is the German government's central institution for the identification, surveillance and prevention of infectious diseases in the Portfolio of the German Ministry of Health. more
In the ESI-CorA pilot project, 20 wastewater treatment plant sites in Germany were selected to commence monitoring in February 2022. In an expansion phase, an additional 28 sites were integrated into the pilot project, with their sampling and SARS-CoV-2 analysis being funded either by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research or directly by a federal state. The implementation and execution of wastewater-based surveillance were scientifically accompanied by various institutions.
One central goal was the harmonization of technical procedures for wastewater monitoring at each site. The study included methods for normalizing raw data, the applied PCR analytics, and the calculation of trend dynamics.
The project was funded by the European Commission as part of an Emergency Support Instrument (Duration: November 2021 to March 2023).
Open data from ESI-CorA are available on Zenodo and GitHub.
Date: 07.12.2023
