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On 22 June, within the activities framed within the 10th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management CHANIA 2023, held in Crete (Greece), the project participated in a Networking session of LIFE projects. The conference, organised by the National...

Last June 1st, the current monitoring expert of the ELMEN EEIG project, Patricia Serrano, visited the facilities of the Cartif Technology Centre in Boecillo (Valladolid), to carry out the last monitoring meeting of the LIFE LEACHLESS project before its completion....

Members of the LIFE LEACHLESS project team of the Fundación Cartif attended the conference “Soluciones para nuevos retos ambientales” (Solutions for new environmental challenges), organised by the Asociación Española de Abastecimientos de Agua y Saneamiento (AEAS) and...

A few days ago (26-29 October) the 24th edition of the Green Technology Expo ECOMONDO 2021 took place. The conference hold at the Rimini Expo Centre in the Italian city of Rimini Ecomondo is the reference event in Europe regarding the ecological transition and new...

The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management THESSALONIKI 2021 was held from June 23-26. The conference, which was originally scheduled for summer 2020, had to be postponed to 2021, due to the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. However, this...

The final event of the LIFE METHAMORPHOSIS project was held on 29 September. This project, led by Aqualia, has implemented a series of innovative technologies in the field of the environment and climate change to provide a solution for the treatment of waste water and...

The LIFE LEACHLESS project has participated in the “LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform Meeting”, in Barcelona (Spain), on 29 and 30 January 2020. The Urban Waste Water Treatment (UWWT) Directive is one of the oldest pieces of EU legislation. Many Member States are...

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project, attended last week ECOMONDO, the leading event in Europe for the new models of circular economy. The event took place between 3 and 6 November in Rimini (Italy). ECOMONDO consisted of an international exhibition with an...

The ISWA World Congress is the most important congress in the world in the field of waste management. The 29th ISWA World Congress was held at the Palacio de Congresos y de la Música Euskalduna in Bilbao (Spain), from 7 to 9 October 2019. Bilbao welcomed around 1,500...

Researchers from the NTUA team presented the LIFE LEACHLESS project during "Researchers' Night" at the National Technical University of Athens on September 27, 2019. The "Researchers' Night" is a European Union initiative aimed at familiarising the public with the...

On 3, 4 and 5 September, the XXXVI National Conference on Chemical Engineering (JNIQ) took place in Zaragoza (Spain). The objective of this Conference was to present the most relevant national research being carried out in this field. The aim was to visualise the way...

The LIFE LEACHLESS project attended the Innovation Workshop "Circular economy in cities: the need for a change in production model, consumption and distribution in a sustainability key" framed in the Regional Program Centr@tec and coordinated by the Institute of...

The LIFE LEACHLESS project was represented at the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, organised by NTUA and held from 26-29 June in Heraklion, on the Greek island of Crete. The Conference aimed to address the important issue of...

El pasado jueves la Fundación Cartif recibió en sus instalaciones de Valladolid a un grupo de estudiantes del Grado de Química de la Universidad de Salamanca (USAL). Durante la visita, el grupo tuvo la ocasión de conocer de primera mano el trabajo diario que se...

From March 19 to 22, representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project attended the CUBAGUA 2019 Conference held in Havana (Cuba). CUBAGUA 2019 propitiated and provided the ideal scenario for the exchange of knowledge, the dissemination of updated information and the...

The 14th edition of the National Congress on the Environment, Conama 2018, was held in Madrid (Spain) from 26 to 29 November. It is a biennial meeting that, in the time since its first edition in 1992, has become the environmental event of reference in Spain for...

The kick-off meeting of the H2020 NUTRI2CYCLE project was held in Ghent (Belgium) on 22 and 23 November. NUTRI2CYCLE project addresses the current gaps in the N, P and C cycles of different European agricultural systems and the related environmental problems by...

The launch meeting of the H2020 NUTRIMAN project took place on 25 and 26 October in Brussels. The NUTRIMAN project is a Nitrogen and Phosphorus thematic network compiling knowledge “ready for practice” for such recovered product applications, practices and...

Last week the XXXV National Conference on Chemical Engineering was held in Salamanca (Spain). The celebration took place between the 4th and 6th of July and in this Conference there was the opportunity to analyse the past, present and future of Chemical Engineering in...

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project were present at the Info Day on future proposals of the Horizon 2020 programme in the Social Challenge part, which took place on 25 June in Brussels. The Conference was organised with the aim of helping attendees to learn...

On 20 June, a workshop was held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Madrid to present proposals in calls for proposals for the Horizon 2020 Bioeconomy, organised by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)....

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project attended the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, organised by NTUA and held from 13-16 June on the Greek island of Naxos. The Conference aimed to address the significant issue of sustainable...

Last Wednesday a group of 25 students from the University of Salamanca who are studying their Chemistry degree visited the facilities of Fundación Cartif in Valladolid. During the tour, the group had the opportunity to learn about the activities that are being carried...

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project took part in the Circular Economy Conference for Stakeholders that took place in Brussels on 20 and 21 February. Two years after the adoption of the Circular Economy by the European Union (December 2015), more than half of...

From the LIFE LEACHLESS project we want to emphasize that the ISWA World Congress will be held in Bilbao between October 7 and 9, 2019. This congress follows guidelines that are in accordance with the philosophy of the LIFE Program. For this event, more than 2,000...

Researchers from LIFE LEACHLESS project have taken part in this visit yesterday, and they have been talking with them about the objectives, actions and expected results of the project of leachate treatment. This visit, organized by the Institute for Business...

On 29 September, a workshop on innovation in the agro-food and forestry sectors was held in Madrid, at the facilities of the Directorate-General for Rural Development and Forestry Policy, with the dissemination of the work of the EIP AGRI Focus Groups. The...

The 5th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, organised by NTUA, was held in Athens from 21st to 24th of June. The Conference gathered around 500 attendants who presented more than 200 oral communications and 140 posters. The project LIFE...

Last week, representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project met at CARTIF facilities with María Bartolomé, from the SERTEGO group, to analyze possible collaboration paths in leachate management and recovery. SERTEGO is one of the main operators in the...

Today, the kick-off meeting of the Interreg ESMIMET project “Development of interregional capacities around the strategic resources of metallic mining” took place in the facilities of Fundación CARTIF. The project aims to boost research, technological development and...