Education/Dissemination

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,…