Welcome to #EnvBiotechAware week
Celebrating both our Network members and their work, join us from 3-7 March 2025 for lunchtime webinars, reports, animations, case studies, outreach and more. New content will be added HERE each day!
Friday of our #EnvBiotechAware week is here and have we got some treats for you. An escape room game to save our water supply, an audiobook, an upcoming podcast with the BSSS and information on enough activities, workshops, consultations, working groups and funded research to keep you riveted for a whole weekend. Don’t miss any of it here.
Thursday brings updates from our working groups on Environmental Sensors and Wastewater Surveillance, PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ and Biochars for Pollution Prevention. Don’t miss our animation on ‘The application of microbubbles for wastewater treatment and more’, take a look at some more of the research we’ve funded and catch up with our researchers who outline why they are working in Environmental Biotechnology. View it all here.
Wednesday: It’s midweek and today we celebrate the work of three of our working groups on: Anaerobic Digestion, N2O Emissions in EB and Biofilms in Water. Some more of our ECR’s tell us why they love Environmental Biotechnology and there are some great outreach options: a super animation from Senate Media on Slow Sand Filtration and a special offer on ‘Stories from the Microbial World’ – explore it all here.
Tuesday: Today we have lots of information on Anaerobic Fermentations, as well as our BES and Process Integration Working Groups. Click HERE to explore these, as well as our ‘I am an Environmental Biotechnologist…’ profiles.
Monday: Take a look at our working groups, ECRs, animations and more! Click HERE.
The Environmental Biotechnology Network (EBNet) is one of 6 Phase II Networks in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy funded primarily by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) with additional funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and builds on the successful Anaerobic Digestion Network, one of 13 Phase I NIBB.
Our community of academics and industry are dedicated to engineering microbial systems for environmental protection, bioremediation and resource recovery. These include, for example, microbes in anaerobic digestion, waste water treatment and those that bio-degrade plastics, oil or other emerging pollutants. Our remit includes terrestrial environmental biotechnology (EB), aquatic EB, organic resources and life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) approaches to EB. Click on the video below to find out more about what we do.
If you have an interest in these environmental biotechnologies which are or potentially could be deployed at scale, our Network is free-to-join. Find our most important activities on the “Don’t Miss” panel on the left of this page, on our Twitter feed on the right of the page or in the relevant menus above.
We:
- facilitate partnerships, networking opportunities and knowledge transfer between academia and industry
- provide Business Interaction Voucher (BIV) funding of £5,000-£20,000 for projects up to 6 months’ duration
- provide Proof of Concept (PoC) funding up to £100,000 for projects up to 12 months’ duration
- support the ‘next generation’ of researchers with funding and opportunities for training, travel and practical experience in academia and industry
- provide funding and support for working groups to carry out activities related to a specific area of environmental biotechnology.
For more on selected aspects of Environmental Biotechnology, take a look at our YouTube channel or selected animations (below).
