Tag: research and innovation
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UN World Water Day 2025: Save Our Glaciers
On World Water Day 2025, the theme “Save Our Glaciers” emphasises the crucial role glaciers play in our ecosystem and highlights the urgency of addressing climate change. World Water Day 2025 kicks of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to stress their importance in regulating the global climate and providing freshwater to nearly 2 billion…
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SafeCREW’s sixth projectmeeting in Berlin
From 13th to 14th March 2025, the project team met in person for the sixth time. This time the Kompetenzzentrum Wasser, Berlin and the Umweltbundesamt – German Environment Agency were the hosts and they gave many exciting insights and progress on One highlight of the meeting was the presence of NUWEE, our Ukrainian partner, who…
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SafeCREW research on DBP at Winter School 2024 in Porto
The Winter School on Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) and Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) 2024 brought together 250 researchers, professionals, and students to explore the latest advancements in understanding and managing contaminants and by-products in water treatment processes. As part of the event, Jon Wullenweber (DVGW-TUHH) together with Mattia Stefanoni (POLIMI) presented a poster on Natural…
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Public Debate and raising awareness on DBPs
Join our EU Green Week Event on 11 June 2024 online! Last minute registration still possible: The Public Debate “Guidance on measures, policy and public engagement: Everything you wanted to know about DBPs” invites citizens to learn and discuss about challenges to drinking water quality. The partner event of the EU Green Week is organised…
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WEBINAR: Precursors of disinfection by-products
On 4 June 2024, 14:00 – 15:30 (CEST), H2Oforall and SafeCREW are hosting their third joint webinar on disinfection by products to which we would like to invite you. This time we will focus on Natural Organic Matter (NOM) as “Precursors of disinfection by-products“. Our guest speaker Jean-Philippe Croue, professor in Environmental Engineering at Université…
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New partner hops on
SafeCrew welcomes the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (NUWEE) as a new partner. Nuwee, funded by the hop on facility of the European Commission, has been another partner in our project since 1 May. Nuwee will be contributing to the project with another case study ‘Drinking water supply systems with disinfection in Eastern…
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SafeCREW partners visited DuPont Technological Center
SafeCREW partners visited DuPont Technological Center in Tarragona on the 20th of March, as an activity preceding the General Assembly. We had the opportunity to visit their research facilities and share knowledge about water treatment and climate change challenges.
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SafeCrew joins the ICT4Water cluster
Since February this year, SafeCrew became a member of the ICT4Water cluster. The ICT4Water cluster is a hub for EU-funded research and innovation projects developing digital innovations for the water sector. Currently, over 60 projects are members of the cluster. Participation in the two clusters ZeroPollution4Water and ICT4Water supports SafeCrew in exchanging information and helps…
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14th BioDetectors conference 2024
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 27 – 28 June 2024 The conference organised by our project partner BDS – BioDetection Systems will bring together scientists involved in the development and application of in vitro effect-based bioanalysis technologies. The conference will cover a variety of topics e.g. bioactivity in drinking water, detection of dioxins in food, safety of…
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Dutch Advisory Group on Water Quality visits Politecnico di Milano
Even though the visit of the Dutch advisory group on water quality to the Politecnico di Milano Dutch group took place some time ago, we would still like to share some impressions. This advisory group consisted of representatives (managers, advisors and directors) from all 10 drinking water suppliers, 4 drinking water laboratories, the River Water…