Mitigation of climate change through advanced phytotechnology for military lands
Some of the project’s innovative research directions have recently received financial support from the governments of Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Dr. Vitalii Stadnik, Co-Director of the project and a researcher at LPNU, was awarded a grant from the Ukrainian Research Foundation under its program supporting early-career researchers pursuing doctoral degrees. The funded research addresses the topic:…
On August 11, 2026 a young researcher of the NULES team, Artem Medkov, successfully defended a PhD dissertation entitled”Adaptation of Miscanthus × giganteus under the Influence of Plant Growth Regulators on the Technogenically Contaminated Lands.” The defence was held in a hybrid form at the Institute of Agroecology and Environmental Management (IAEM) of the National…
Prof. Pidlisniuk visited Porto University with multiple goals: to introduce the latest achievements of G6094 to colleagues from the Department of Civil Engineering and Resources; to present the Guide “Utilisation of Advanced Miscanthus Phytotechnology for Revitalisation of the Post-Military Land”, recently published within G6094; and to define the role of the colleagues in the Horizon…
The Project Progress Meeting 12 of G6094 “Mitigation of climate change through advanced phytotechnology for military lands” is scheduled for October 23, 2026, 14.00 CEST at UJEP in the hybrid form: UJEP participants will participate in persons, members of other teams will be connected on-line. The agenda and connection link will be announced.
Nargiza Akhmentalina, a Master’s student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), a linkage institution within the G6094 project, successfully defended her Master’s thesis on 9 June 2026. Her thesis, entitled “Development of Microbial–Biochar Complexes Using Biochar Produced from Organic Waste”, was conducted under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Aigerim Mamirova. Part of the research was…
Victor Markiv, PhD student at TVHNPU and young researcher of the team of G6094 successfully defended PhD thesis on June 12, 2026. His dissertation marked a contribution to the field of biological sciences and was within the project related topics on influence of Trace elements to the different ecosystems and risk assessment. Victor Markiv officially…
On May 18, 2026, Professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk, NPD, and Dr. Josef Trogl, UJEP, visited the Fraunhofer IKTS in Germany. They were accompanied by Dr. Jiří Mikeš, a member of the Czech cluster NANOProgress. The goal of the visit was to present the results of the project related to M×g biomass cellulose content and discuss the…
On May 25, 2026, the 8th Conference for Young Researchers and PhD Students, StudKon 2026, was organized at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. Young researchers from the G6094 team presented two reports highlighting recent project results. The report entitled “Evaluating Brownfield Phytoremediation with Miscanthus × giganteus and Arundo donax Using Soil Bioindicators…
For the dissemination of the projects’ results and products the team of G6094 NATO SPS MYP G6094 “Mitigation of climate change through advanced phytotechnology for military lands” is going to organize a Second HUB meeting in Ternopil, Ukraine; the oriented date is October 2026.
On May 15, 2026, Project Progress Meeting 11 was organized by the leading institution, UJEP. The meeting summarized the results of the first almost four months of activities under Milestone 5. The event was held in a hybrid format: the team from the leading institution participated in person, while members of the other teams (TVHNPU,…
