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7th of October 2021 | |
10:00-10:30 | Welcome speech Ilie Vlaicu – President of the Romanian Water Association Plenary Session – Urban development and its role in quality of life Sorin Maxim – General Director, West Regional Development Agency, Romania |
10:30-11:00 | Recovery of phosphorus from wastewater Csaba Bauer – Aquaserv, Romania |
11:00-11:30 | WATER RESOURCE GARDENS – a Sustainable Solution for the Urban Water Cycle Attila BODNÁR – Organica Water, Hungary |
11:30-12:00 | Urban Floods, Think Circular Stefania Balica – Independent researcher in floods management |
Break – Virtual tour of Timisoara, Romania | |
14:00-16:00 | What is Circular Economy? – Watershare and Aquademica Joint Webinar |
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Case studies
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Q&A with speakers and audience | |
| Webinar Closing Ciprian Nanu – Business Development Group, Romania |
8th of October 2021 | |
10:00-10:30 | Steinzeug-Keramo and Circular Economy. Let’s not use what we can’t reuse. Mihai Stefan – Sales Engineer SE Europe, Steinzeug-Keramo |
10:30-11:00 | Utilization of industrial effluents: from Water Treatment to Zero Liquid Discharge Robert Körner – Head of Marketing & Strategic Sales WEHRLE-WERK AG, Germany |
11:00-11:30 | Technology for the reuse of industrial wastewater Doru Popa – Nijhuis Industries |
11:30-12:00 | Break – Virtual tour of Timisoara, Romania |
12:00-12:30 | Water safety in the context of circular economy Mihaela Vasilescu – Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania |
12:30-13:00 | Nanotechnology in the field of Wastewater Circular Economy Constantin Damian – Director, KEMATRONIC, Romania |
13:00-13:30 | Contribution of wastewater epidemiology to community COVID-19 surveillance. Case study: The city of Thessaloniki in Greece (BIOREGIO Project) Theodoros Karapantsios – Professor, Head of Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
13:30-14:00 | Important educational tools and resources in raising awareness of environmental issues applicable in the water sector Anca Draghici – Professor, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania |
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The NextGen initiative will evaluate and champion innovative and transformational circular economy solutions and systems that challenge embedded thinking and practices around resource use in the water sector. NextGen will demonstrate innovative technological, business and governance solutions for water in the circular economy in ten high-profile, large-scale, demonstration cases across Europe, and we will develop the necessary approaches, tools and partnerships, to transfer and upscale.
KWR generates knowledge to enable the water sector to operate water-wisely in our urbanized society. With a sense of professional and social responsibility for the quality of water, KWR's scientific findings and the resulting practical innovations contribute, worldwide, to a sustainable water provision in the urban water cycle.
National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry. Applied research for the development of new products and technologies in the following areas: Capitalization of bioresources; Nanosciences and nanomaterials; Environmental protection and sustainable management of resources; Increasing the competitiveness of industrial products; Recovery, recycling and recovery of by-products.