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Congratulations to Prof James Chong and colleagues at the University of York for their successful Prosperity Partnership proposal with industry partner Yorkshire Water. The project on Understanding how microbial communities respond to design and process engineering in wastewater treatment (BB/Y003314/1) brings together environmental engineering and genomics to improve bioenergy production …
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 …
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 …
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 …
EBNet thanks Professor Kenneth Timmis, Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany for this article on his endeavours. This initiative aims to provide new materials for the teaching of microbiology in schools in order to create a society that is literate in key aspects of microbiology that are …
The University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering Day will be held on 14 Mar 2020, as part of a week-long festival from 6-15 March. There will be all kinds of amazing events including our Circular Bioeconomy Roadshow which includes our solar-powered anaerobic digester, Rubens Tube, VFA ‘Show and smell’, pH …
A number of our outreach volunteers were recognised at this year’s Public Engagement with Research Unit (PERu) awards on 10 Dec this year. Marty Climenhaga, Angie Bywater and Kai Ming Chang were given awards for Outstanding Commitment and Ana Perdomo Marin was awarded Best Social Media Support for building …
The EBNet outreach team put some of their Circular Bio-economy activities on offer at the University of Southampton’s Dragonfly Day. Dragonfly Day is an on-campus day designed for Year 9 female students to encourage young women to consider the benefits of further study and careers in science and engineering. Dragonfly Days are a popular …
There was stiff competition at the University of Sheffield’s biodigester hackathon, organised by Helen Wright and sponsored by RS Components, Grass Roots and the Alumni Association. Each team consisted of cross-disciplinary first and second year engineering students, mentored by a third year student. The students were challenged to build a …
With a challenge of ‘bringing our own energy’ and in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees C, the AD Network legacy Circular Bioeconomy outreach team headed for Glastonbury on 25th June to 1st July, joining scientists from all over the country in order to talk to festival-goers about our work. Big thanks …
Discussing how we can make interesting things from waste is probably not the most obvious starting point for impressing a group of girl guides, but our Circular Bioeconomy outreach team did just that at the STEM Badge Day on 19 Apr at the University of Southampton. Guides spent the day …
Our intrepid outreach leader Marty Climenhaga was joined by Kai Chang, Ana Perdomo Marin and Lupita Landeros Gonzalez to bring our ADNet/EBNet Circular Bioeconomy roadshow to festival-goers at the South Downs Green Fair near Petersfield on 12 May this year. This is one of our favourite events: relatively local, great food, lot of interesting (and interested!) people and a lovely family atmosphere.
