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 Matthias Wessling, RWTH Professor and part of the SuPER-W network is the leibniz prize winner 2019. Like all of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft in the programme of excellent people, the membrane expert receives a research prize of 2,5 Millions of euros. " we are very excited about the high recognition for this outstanding scientist. Matthias Wessling is considered one of the most productive and influential experts for and and polymerforschung ", says RWTH Aachen Rector Ulrich Rüdiger.

Our Fellow colleague, ESR Marco Hartl, from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya·BarcelonaTech published his first peer-reviewed journal article in the Science of total environment journal. the abstract of the paper reads:

Euromembrane 2018, the main membrane science event in Europe, was held in Valencia June 9th to 13th. The cinference was organized by EMS-European membrane society and hosted by Polytechnique University of Valencia and comprised of more than 250 oral presentations in 5 parallel sessions and 500 posters. From SuPER-W network, PaInT group from Ghent university contributed with several talks and posters, including a keynote speech from Dr. ir.

The first European water tech week will be held in Leeuwarden, the United Nations Innovating City for water technology, on September 24th to 27th. The annual Wetsus congress and WaterLink, by Water Alliance, are integrated to bring representatives from governments, policy makers, universities and industry together.

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British Water - Water & The Circular Economy Conference will be held in Liverpool on June 14th. Students affiliated with SuPER-W will have a special student discount.

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The Midterm review of SuPER-W hosted by Delft university of technology started on Monday 29th with the presentation of European union’s Research Executive Agency (REA) representative. The meeting then continued with presentations of SuPER-W management committee on the progress of the project. Starting from afternoon, SuPER-W fellows had the unique opportunity of presenting their latest works to a board of experts and officials from European union’s Research executive agency.

The aim of this study was to assess the potential environmental impacts associated with high rate algal ponds (HRAP) systems for wastewater treatment and resource recovery in small communities. To this aim, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was carried out evaluating two alternatives: i) a HRAP system for wastewater treatment where microalgal biomass is valorized for energy recovery (biogas production); ii) a HRAP system for wastewater treatment where microalgal biomass is reused for nutrients recovery (biofertilizer production).

As part of the SuPER-W program, Outreach and Dissemination Tool (ODT) projects are being developed. One of the projects focuses on elaborating a tool and course on environmental technologies connected to wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

Larissa Terumi Arashiro,  one of our colleagues at super-w, is working on microalgae wastewater treatment at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. Recently, Her blog post “Microalgae as a sustainable alternative for wastewater treatment” on the International Water Association (IWA) site has been announced as one of the top 5 most-viewed blogs in 2017.