Category: <span>Outreach</span>

On-farm AD and methane capture: IFEAA reports

The International Fugitive Emissions Abatement Association IFEAA has carried out a review of factors enabling on-farm anaerobic digestion and methane capture. The IFEAA team, including EBNet’s Network Co-Manager Angela Bywater, worked with system developers to understand policy, regulatory, skills and technology aspects, as part of the Cornwall-based Net Zero Methane …

Stories from the Microbial World: Chalk Scribblers panel

  Wednesday 9 April 2025, 19-21:00 UK time  –  Online This event features a panel discussion on the Stories from the Microbial World anthology with the editor and two contributing authors. Stories from the Microbial World contains 23 stories in which microbes and microbiology play a prominent role. It was …

Celebrating Environmental Biotechnology – Thursday, 6 March 2025

Join us for #EnvBiotechAware Week, 3-7 March 2025 to celebrate the work of our membership and take a closer look at our activities and achievements from the last few years. Featured Working Groups What have our Working Groups been up to? Ably led by academics whose enthusiasm translates into action, see how …

Celebrating Environmental Biotechnology – Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Join us for #EnvBiotechAware Week, 3-7 March 2025 to celebrate the work of our membership and take a closer look at our activities and achievements from the last few years. Lunchtime Webinar Opportunities in Biogas – a IEA Task 37 perspective, Wednesday, 5th March 1-2pm (UK) This webinar is on …

New EBNet videos!

Following our summer call for animation ideas to illustrate EBNet’s Microbiology/Engineering Interactions Theme, we now have 3 new videos to enjoy on YouTube. Our thanks to Dr Hemaka Bandulasena, Loughborough University, Dr Francis Hassard, Cranfield University and Dr Yue Zhang, University of Southampton for working with Senate Media to create these. Want …

New Green Stories Book – Stories from the Microbial World

A new anthology ‘Stories from the Microbial World‘ resulting from previous Green Stories competitions is available this week here. The anthology presents 23 short stories selected from winning stories from the Green Stories competition ‘Microbes to the Rescue’, sponsored by the Environmental Biotechnology Network and the ‘Clean vs Green’ competition, …

‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’ performed by the Maskers this week.

Performances: 17-22 September 2024. Discounted performance + Q&A (£10): Sunday 22nd September, Southampton as it is being filmed. Audiences can receive a £10 voucher for giving feedback.. The Maskers are staging the play by Professor Denise Baden of the University of Southampton. ‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’ which was inspired …

EBNet Animation Opportunity

As part of EBNet’s Engineering/Biology theme we intend to commission some short animations that illustrate interactions between the system microbiology and its engineering envelope in Environmental Biotechnology. This EBNet resource – a collection of publicly available videos – will showcase EB in an accessible way to promote a better understanding …

Green Stories/EBNet Competition: Short story – Theme: Microbes. Briefing Webinar

The webinar is over, but the recording is here. A virtual green story writing workshop (free to attend) for aspiring entrants will be held at 6-7pm Monday, 31st July where you can ask questions of experts in the field to help develop your story. We’ve allowed an hour but if …

Green Stories: Short Story competition – sponsored by EBNet

The recording of the briefing webinar can be found here. Deadline: 21 September 2023. £500 prize (or local currency equivalent) plus runners up prizes of £200 for 2nd place and £100 for 3rd place Green Stories writing competitions are a series of free writing competitions across various formats to solicit …

EBNet-Sponsored Publication Scoops International Abstract Award.

The Environmental Biotechnology Network (EBNet), based at the University of Southampton, is pleased to announce that the abstract for one of their co-sponsored ‘Farm of the Future’ reports on ‘Decarbonising Farm Vehicles and Future Fuels’ has won first place in the Best Scientific Abstracts from the Union of European Academies …