Date: 17-18 Sept 2026, London The Institute of Water (IoW) is holding its 2026 annual conference on the theme Powered by You: Collective Action for a Resilient Water Future. The conference organisers note that: “The demands on the water sector are significant. Expectations from customers, regulators and communities continue to …
Closing date: 17 July 2026 The 2026 IBIC ICURe Discover Programme is inviting applications from researchers in north‑west England who are interested in exploring the commercial potential of their industrial biotechnology innovations. The programme is funded by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst (IBIC) and Innovate UK. It focuses on market …
Date: 26 June 2026 10:30 UK, online Don’t miss this month’s PhycoFriday talk, jointly hosted by PhycoClub and EBNet’s BES WG. Dr Marin Sawa will give a presentation on Bioefficiency, in the context of her work on algal biotechnology: for more details of speaker and topic, see below. Marin’s talk …
Webinar: 30 June 2026, 10-12:00 UK Closing date: 19 August 2026 The Royal Society‘s Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) scheme, aims to increase knowledge and awareness in UK universities of cutting-edge industrial science, research and innovation. The scheme provides opportunities for enthusiastic, highly-experienced industrial scientists and entrepreneurs to spend one day …
Abstracts deadline: 20 July 2026 Date and location: 25-26 August 2026, Cambridge The 3rd International Symposium on Microfluidics for Sensing and Sequencing: Frontier Technology for Sustainability and Planetary Health (ISM2S 2026) is inviting abstract submissions. Following previous ISM2S in Cranfield 2024 and Oxford 2025, this two-day event covers the topic …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Date: 30 June 2026, 12:30-13:30 online The Institute of Water (IoW) is hosting an online Lunch & Learn session with Dr Tom Arnot on the intersection between water management and circular economy principles. The session will start with a concise overview of the ideas behind circular strategies, then move on …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Closing date: 31 Oct 2026 The application period for the Processes Travel Award is now open. This award provides financial support to attend an international conference in the field of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials, or related process/systems engineering research in 2027, in order to give an oral presentation, present a …
