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In 2017 Norway’s chemical, oil refining and pharmaceutical industry had sales of NOK 157.3 billion (€16.1 billion), of which NOK 94 billion were exports (59.8%). The sector employed 13,000 full-time equivalents, and generated NOK 37.4 billion (€3.8 billion) of added value. In 2018, the chemical industry was the third largest employer in Poland, employing 315,000 people. Currently in the world a growing emphasis on environmental protection by increasing awareness in society and implementing new legal regulations. The Council Directive of the European Union 91/271/EEC regulates the issues of municipal sewage treatment (UWWT) in Europe and is one of the most important driving forces on the market of sewage treatment devices. In order with raised facts we propose to design novel system for electrochemical removal of harmful contaminants in water created by laboratories and households. The main project objective is to develop, construct and validate system based on an intelligent electrochemical reactor – i-CLARE – for removal of harmful contaminants dissolved in water. The application of i-CLARE will allow to the simply decontamination process along with low-power consumption creating affordable breakthrough innovation. The use of I-CLARE will surely improve state of environment, including the health impact of pollution and other environmental issues reducing death and illness from exposure to chemicals and environmental pollution. The final deliverable will be table-top demonstrator of system tested by Norwegian Institute for Air Research and other cooperating laboratories. International cooperation, while conducting scientific projects, offers at least several benefits on few levels. First and foremost, in the possibility to broaden and exchange the knowledge and trends between the countries involved in the project. Working in a multicultural group improves the discovery process, thanks to the possibility of looking at a problem from a different perspective.