Date: 10-12 June 2025 Venue: Bergen, Norway and online This European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP) workshop covers nutrient management in aquaculture feed, seafood processing and fish sludge valorisation. Topics considered include nutrient flows, environmental best practice, phosphorus recycling and regulatory challenges. Participants include the European Commission (DG MARE and DG …
Congratulations to Dr Francis Hassard, the Water Biofilms WG Lead, and his colleagues on two recent papers describing novel advances in slow sand filtration (SSF). The technology also features in the WG’s animation Innovation in SSF: A sustainable solution for clean water. A subtitled version is available here. For an …
The Biofilm Alliance is a Network for regulatory sciences, academic research and industrial collaboration that aims to foster innovation in biofilm management and control technologies. The Alliance warmly invites responses to it Implementation Phase Survey, which aims to gather insights on key priorities, challenges and opportunities within the biofilm management …
Ecomondo Green Technology Expo Abstract submission: 30 June 2025 Acceptance notification: 16 July 2025 Event: 4-7 November 2025, Rimini Expo Centre, Italy Ecomondo covers core areas of EBNet’s remit, including Biowaste conference on composting and anaerobic digestion Sustainable strategies for the remediation of polluted sites: developments in national and international …
Key deadlines: Application to ICGEB for financial assistance 18 June 2025 Abstracts 13 July 2025 Registration 8 October 2025 Conference date: 28-30 October 2025 Trieste, Italy Arturo Falaschi Conference on Cell-cell communication in bacteria: new insights and future trends This recurring conference on cell-cell communication in bacteria brings together leading …
Dr Francis Hassard, the Lead of EBNet’s Water Biofilms Working Group, is keen to hear the sector’s views on how slow sand filters (SSF) can keep pace with tomorrow’s drinking-water challenges. On 22 January 2025, EBNet brought together researchers, utilities and regulators at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London to …
Deadline: 18 June 2025 at 23:59 The UK Parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has issued a Call for Evidence on issues related to the Global Plastics Treaty. The final round of negotiations on a new Global Plastics Treaty (Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee or INC-5) was planned for completion …
EBNet does science rather than politics, but we do respond to national and other surveys where our expertise is relevant to policy formation. And at present it is impossible to be unaware of the troubled state of the UK water industry. Today’s headline item ‘Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest …
Presentations from our webinar Opportunities in Biogas – an IEA Task 37 perspective are now available on EBNet’s YouTube channel. This webinar was jointly hosted by EBNet and the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), with the aim of making people more familiar with the vast array of information and …
Deadline: 15 June 2025 Location: University of Liverpool This PhD project brings together expertise in nanoscale surface science and local scale electrochemistry, cell-surface interaction probes, microbiology and imaging across physical and biological sciences to study the electrochemical process that occurs both at the local site and single cell level and …
Deadline: 17 October 2025 This year’s Photography and Art competition run by the National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) is now open for entries. The competition forms part of NBIC’s #BiofilmAware campaign, which works to raise awareness NBIC’s activities and research, and the many societal and economic impacts of biofilms.The cometition …
Microbiologically-Influenced Corrosion or MIC is of interest to at least two of EBNet’s Working Groups – the Bioelectrochemical Systems and Anaerobic Fermentation WGs, which supported a forthcoming materials study. The full report is embargoed for now, but an outline is available here. Meanwhile a recently-published review by one of the …
Deadline: 8 July 2025 The Royal Society has opened its 3rd Call for International Collaboration Awards, for emerging research leaders in the UK and Japan. Researchers can apply to the Royal Society for funds of up to £225,000 for 3 years. The call aims to support joint development of sustainable and …
Date: 19 June 2025, 10-12:00 BST Venue: Online Innovate UK’s Engineering Biology Innovation Network aims to connect innovators and researchers in Engineering Biology to end-users and investors, developing supply-chains and creating a commercially focused community. It will facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration and consortia building, accelerating the adoption and commercialisation of …
Presentations from the webinar on Current and Future Directions in Aerobic Granular Sludge Systems are now available on EBNet’s YouTube channel – see here. The session includes two presentations, on Nereda‘s technical developments, experience of meeting current industry needs, and new developments regarding harvesting of biopolymers from granules; and on …
