Education/Dissemination

On May 19, 2025 Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ukraine hosted a Roundtable “Science in Action: The Role of Researchers in Overcoming the Challenges of War”. The event was dedicated to the role of research & outreach in overcoming the consequences of a full-scale war to the environment and society in Ukraine along and…

Lutfi Sharanek, a former ERASMUS student at UJEP in 2024-2025 fall semester, who was involved in research at the Chomutov M×g plantation, Czech Republic was granted the First Place at the 7th SAS Research Day at Lebanese International University, Lebanon. The presentation “Restoring Soils, Advancing Science: My Erasmus Exploration of Miscanthus Driven Phytoremediation” was focused…

On 15 May 2025, Professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk (NPD, UJEP) delivered a public lecture entitled “Role of Education in Sustainable Development,” which focused on the sustainable management of contaminated sites through the application of M×g phytotechnology on post-military and post-mining lands. The lecture was part of the eco-workshop “Education for Sustainable Development” in Ternopil, Ukraine, organised…

On 13 May 2025, Professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk (NPD, UJEP) delivered a public lecture entitled “Innovative Phytotechnology for the Revitalization of Damaged and Slightly Contaminated Military Lands Using Miscanthus × giganteus.” The lecture focused on the practical application of advanced M×g phytotechnology to reclaim military training grounds, trenches and other areas disturbed by recent military actions…

Co-Director, Assoc. Prof. Tatyana Stefanovska, NULES, Ukraine participated as a Group Leader in the Laboratory and Field Training – Health Assessment of Soils Affected by War, held in Belgium on March 17-28, 2025. The Training was organized as part of a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and…

The laboratory results on production of Miscanthus × giganteus biomass at the petroleum contaminated soil were introduced at the Global Summit on biofuels and bioenergy held on 3-4th April 2025 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The presentation authoring by Josef Trögl, Valentina Pidlisnyuk, Diana Polanská Nebeská, Hana Burdová, Zdeňka Kwoczynski, Karim Suhail Al Souki, Robert Ato…

On November 13, 2024, Professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk, UJEP, NPD introduced the elements of the Miscanthus Advanced Phytotechnology to the local stakeholders in the Chomutov district, Usti region. She met with the Udlice town Governor Mr. Vítězslav Daniš and representatives of the firm “Kobra”, specialized in the bioremediation of solid waste, Mr. Marek Kofron and Mr….

On July 27, 2024, project members represented by Prof. Valentina Pidlisnyuk, NPD (UJEP), PhD student Robert Ato Newton (UJEP), and Dr. Aigerim Mamirova (KazNU) participated as invited speakers in the virtual webinar “2024 Nineteenth Annual Dialog on Sustainability: Ecosystem Restoration – The Use of Biochar” hosted by Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, USA. The webinar,…

One of the educational goals of the project is focused on enhancing the existed at the universities Master and Bachelor degree courses with elements of the Advanced Technology with Miscanthus × giganteus. In the educational year 2023/2024 the existed Erasmus course in Sustainable Management of Contaminated Sites (UJEP) was updated with the elements of Phytotechnology,…