TRANSFORMING THE WATER SECTOR THROUGH COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH & INNOVATION Join senior representatives from water companies, regulators, the supply chain, academia, other utilities and related industries to share ideas and ambitions that drive greater innovation in the water industry. An impressive line-up of speakers has been secured for the day, including: …
Industrial Decarbonising Research and Innovation Centre. A champion appointed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will develop plans for a new centre which will help to achieve the government’s net zero ambitions by addressing challenges to the decarbonisation of the industrial sector. Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, of Heriot-Watt University, will work …
To celebrate and make Women in STEM more visible, Cranfield University is organising the Early Career Women in Water (ECWW20) conference to be held on 17 March 2020. The event will provide a platform for female early career researchers and young water professionals to promote their work and research, thereby …
This year, the Environmental Biotechnology Research Colloquium was held at the John McIntyre Conference Centre at the University of Edinburgh, starting with a dinner at 7:30 pm on 22 January 2020, with the main conference from 9 am to 4 pm on 23 January 2020. The programme is here. Programme …
Energy for Business scheme 28th February 2020 Are you a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) and located in the Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire region? Delivered by the Energy Innovation and Collaboration team and funded by the European Regional Development Fund, this low-carbon innovation project offers product research and development, business support …
Introduction to EMBL-EBI Resources 22 January 2020 The EMBL-EBI is the home of the world’s most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. This webinar is free to attend, but you need to register for a place. HVB: Enterprise Fellowship workshop 12 February 2020, University of York Please …
We are planning to run a FREE high speed hands-on workshop on the latest bioinformatics techniques that are available for the analysis of biological data. We are aware that many of you would like to get some more experience in bioinformatics and data analysis, so we kindly ask you to …
CALLING ALL ECRs – Join our Scientific Committee for the EBNet ECR Conference, 25-26 Jun 2020, BirminghamWe are still looking for a few more Early Career Researchers to join the Scientific Committee for our Annual ECR Conference, pencilled in for 25-26 June in Birmingham. If you would like experience in …
The theme of this year’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s National Conference was ‘There’s no net zero without biogas’. EBNet’s Angie Bywater gave a presentation on how research is working to help achieve this ambition. Also included in this panel session were Dr Keith Simons (SHV Energy), Andy Griffiths (Nestle) …
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 …
The Environmental Biotechnology Network Business Interaction Voucher (BIV) call opens on 6 Jan 2020 and will close on 28 Feb 2020, with successful applicants notified on a date to be confirmed. Application form and guidance is on our funding web page. BIVs enable industry partners to ‘buy’ an academic’s time …
There are a number of cross-over areas between the two NIBBs, and the area of metals bio-remediation is one of them. Manchester hosted some fascinating talks on this topic, including some on engineering cell vesicles for nanoparticle production; using phyto- remediation for metal recovery; deploying microbes to treat e-waste and …
UPDATE 11/03/20 – This event has been postponed to a date yet to be confirmed. We will post the updated details here when we know them. The next Early Career Women in Water (ECWW20) conference has been announced and the website is now live. Keynote speakers include: Prof Elise Cartmell, …
EBNet was proud to sponsor the Student and Young Professionals’ Poster Award at this year’s AquaEnviro European Biosolids & Organic Resources Conference & Exhibition,19-20 November 2019 in Manchester. Network co-Manager Angie Bywater presented the top prize of £250 to Hamed Ghazisaidi, University of Toronto for his winning poster on …
