Opens: 02 June 2025 Closes: 09 July 2025 Engineering Biology SPARK Awards will fund UK academic institutions or Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) to deliver an engineering biology project that addresses a challenge posed by a UK-registered Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME), or enhances the SME’s progress towards developing new products, …
As part of EBNet’s Working Group on PFAS, Dr Tao Lyu and Prof Frederic Coulon hosted a successful one-day workshop on 6 June bringing together researchers, early-career scientists and industry stakeholders to share the latest advances in PFAS detection, degradation and biotechnological solutions. The event, supported by EBNet and the …
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:30-16:30 Venue: The Milner, York Join the BB-REG-NET for a full-day interactive workshop on developing tools and standards to assess the impact and performance of bio-based, biodegradable, and compostable materials. The workshop, entitled Creating a favourable regulatory environment for bio-based materials, aims to help develop new tools, …
Presentation slides and information from the Task 37 webinar Manure to Biogas – Global Lessons and Challenges in Unlocking Farm-Based Potential are now available here. A recording of the webinar is available HERE. The webinar features Dr Bernhard Drosg – IEA Bioenergy Task 37 Lead, AustriaWelcome and introduction to Task …
Application deadline: 10 June 2025 Date: 30 June 2025, 10:30-16:45 Venue: The Grand, York BBIA, HVB, the Biorenewables Development Centre and Biomass Connect are organising a workshop to investigate opportunities and challenges for UK bio-based supply chains to high value chemicals and materials. The workshop will examine the potential of …
Date: 10-12 June 2025 Venue: Bergen, Norway and online This European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP) workshop covers nutrient management in aquaculture feed, seafood processing and fish sludge valorisation. Topics considered include nutrient flows, environmental best practice, phosphorus recycling and regulatory challenges. Participants include the European Commission (DG MARE and DG …
Congratulations to Dr Francis Hassard, the Water Biofilms WG Lead, and his colleagues on two recent papers describing novel advances in slow sand filtration (SSF). The technology also features in the WG’s animation Innovation in SSF: A sustainable solution for clean water. A subtitled version is available here. For an …
The Biofilm Alliance is a Network for regulatory sciences, academic research and industrial collaboration that aims to foster innovation in biofilm management and control technologies. The Alliance warmly invites responses to it Implementation Phase Survey, which aims to gather insights on key priorities, challenges and opportunities within the biofilm management …
Ecomondo Green Technology Expo Abstract submission: 30 June 2025 Acceptance notification: 16 July 2025 Event: 4-7 November 2025, Rimini Expo Centre, Italy Ecomondo covers core areas of EBNet’s remit, including Biowaste conference on composting and anaerobic digestion Sustainable strategies for the remediation of polluted sites: developments in national and international …
Key deadlines: Application to ICGEB for financial assistance 18 June 2025 Abstracts 13 July 2025 Registration 8 October 2025 Conference date: 28-30 October 2025 Trieste, Italy Arturo Falaschi Conference on Cell-cell communication in bacteria: new insights and future trends This recurring conference on cell-cell communication in bacteria brings together leading …
Dr Francis Hassard, the Lead of EBNet’s Water Biofilms Working Group, is keen to hear the sector’s views on how slow sand filters (SSF) can keep pace with tomorrow’s drinking-water challenges. On 22 January 2025, EBNet brought together researchers, utilities and regulators at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London to …
Deadline: 18 June 2025 at 23:59 The UK Parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has issued a Call for Evidence on issues related to the Global Plastics Treaty. The final round of negotiations on a new Global Plastics Treaty (Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee or INC-5) was planned for completion …
EBNet does science rather than politics, but we do respond to national and other surveys where our expertise is relevant to policy formation. And at present it is impossible to be unaware of the troubled state of the UK water industry. Today’s headline item ‘Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest …
Presentations from our webinar Opportunities in Biogas – an IEA Task 37 perspective are now available on EBNet’s YouTube channel. This webinar was jointly hosted by EBNet and the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), with the aim of making people more familiar with the vast array of information and …
Deadline: 15 June 2025 Location: University of Liverpool This PhD project brings together expertise in nanoscale surface science and local scale electrochemistry, cell-surface interaction probes, microbiology and imaging across physical and biological sciences to study the electrochemical process that occurs both at the local site and single cell level and …
