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 â 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 …
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. …
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 …
Call deadline:Â 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 solutionâoriented, interdisciplinary projects that address the policy, regulatory, market, and societal barriers to sustainable bioenergy and bio-based product deployment in the UK. …
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 …
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 â including the role of industry, policy, and local communities. Topic: Broadening the View: Water Quality Challenges in the UK Speaker: Professor Phil Aldous Phil …
Abstract deadline: 12 June 2026 Date and venue: 17-18 Nov 2026, Telford International Centre The organisers of the European Biosolids & Bioresources Conference (EBBC) are inviting abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations under the following themes  – relevant to several EBNet Working Groups Mitigating Methane and Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) …
Two Case Stories recently published by IEA Task 37 Energy from Biogas are of interest to EBNet members and the wider anaerobic digestion community. One is a study of the VEAS wastewater treatment plant in Oslo, which serves a population equivalent of around 800,000. The plant recovers 79% of N …
EBNet’s ECR Working Group report is now available to view here and on the WG page. This is the last of the WG reports to be posted: we originally wanted to get them all out in January, but were delayed. This report then became a moving target, as people kept …
Date and venue: 8-9 June 2026, Madrid  The European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP) is organising a workshop on Implementation of the EU UWWTD article 20: P reuse and recycling rates. The purpose of the workshop is to provide input to the development of proposals for phosphorus âreuse and recycling ratesâ …
The 5th Bioinference Conference will take place at the University of St Andrews from 10-12 June 2026. EBNetâs office team has to admit that, although the subject area is dear to several of our core members, we were not aware of this conference series until the latest IBioIC Newsletter brought …
