Year: <span>2026</span>

Navigating the Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Ecosystem – webinar and launch

Date: 9 June 2026, 10-12:00 2026 Online Innovate UK’s Business Connect is inviting interested parties an interactive webinar exploring the Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Ecosystem. This event will see the launch of a new ecosystem directory and participants are invited to help shape the Network’s future direction. The session is relevant …

Current knowledge: new paper on anode colonisation in MFC

A recent journal paper by several EBNet members adds to our knowledge of how microbes spread across anode surfaces in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The study investigated spatial and temporal dynamics of community assembly, using a novel multi-electrode MFC with two substrate conditions. Pre-inoculation led to successful current generation within …

Venice 2026: call for abstracts

Abstract deadline: 8 June 2026 The 11th International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste will take place in Venice from 23-25 November 2026. Abstract submissions are invited on the following themes: FEEDSTOCKS – Amounts, quality, properties, monitoring, source segregation, sorting and collecting systems, energy potential evaluation etc. CONVERSION PROCESSES …

Innovate UK: Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Round 6 

Closing date: 15 July 2026 11:00am UK academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to fund innovation projects with businesses. The Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) scheme allows a UK Knowledge Base to work with a UK registered business to deliver a short, …

MEEHubs2026 – Microbial ecology and evolution conference

Date: 3-5 Aug 2026 at 7 hubs including Manchester UK, and online. Research into microbial ecology and evolution is critical to many aspects of environmental biotechnology, and is advancing rapidly in countries all round the world. The MEEHubs 2026 conference will bring together field biologists, microbiologists, virologists, bioinformaticians, biophysicists, mathematicians …

UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst launched – get help and advice!

The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst is a new national training platform built on six years of collaborative work across seven UK universities. It brings together peer-reviewed training materials covering programming, statistics, machine learning, data stewardship, and more, alongside direct one-to-one support from research software engineers and data scientists. Learning …

AMR, Biochar, H2 production and microalgae videos now available

In the ongoing clean-up of the EBNet website, new presentations have been added to Travel bursary and Placement sections, which are now on the Outcomes page. For some examples from international conferences, see: Kathleen Dunbar, University of Surrey – ISME 19, 18-23 August 2024 Cape Town, South Africa. Increased hydrogen production from …

IBioIC Webinar – Biology in Water: Monitoring, Scale-Up and Deployment

Date: 24 June 2026 11-12:30, online This is the second webinar in this IBioIC series   –  for the first, see here.  Biological systems hold enormous potential for resource recovery, water treatment, and sustainability. But moving from controlled laboratory success to reliable field deployment is rarely straightforward. This webinar will look …

IChemE – Novel Technologies in Bioprocessing

Date and venue: 23 June 2026 10-16:30, University College London The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is organising a one-day conference to explore new developments in bioprocessing tools, technologies and strategies, with sustainability in mind. The event will cover a range of applications including biopharmaceuticals, foods, cosmetics, detergents and others. …

Two blogs on Stories from the Microbial World and other fiction

Habitat Press has published a newsletter focussing on the Stories from the Microbial World anthology, which includes entries from the EBNet-sponsored Microbes to the Rescue and the Clean vs Green competition rounds organised by the Green Stories Project. The Habitat Press Newsletter features interviews with a few of the authors …

Supergen Bioenergy flexible funding: Enabling environment for sustainable bioenergy

Call deadline:  28 June 2026 The Supergen Bioenergy Hub has launched a new flexible funding call focused on developing an enabling environment for sustainable bioenergy. This call supports solution‑oriented, interdisciplinary projects that address the policy, regulatory, market, and societal barriers to sustainable bioenergy and bio-based product deployment in the UK. …

AD optimisation and decision-making – an industry/academic perspective

Congratulations to our colleagues for their new paper in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews on requirements and approaches for optimising anaerobic digestion on a site-wide basis. The paper draws on work carried out for the AI for Net Zero project (EP/Y005600/1) led by Prof Michael Short, and with the Supergen …

BetterWater4All Network  –  UK water quality challenges webinar (recording now available)

Missed this?  A recorded version of the webinar isnow available HERE. Date: 27 May 2026 14:00 UK, online The BetterWater4All Network+ is hosting a webinar on water quality in the UK and the challenges it faces – including the role of industry, policy, and local communities. Topic: Broadening the View: …