Midterm Meeting SuPER-W in Delft, February 2018
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. Students’ research, their goals, methodology and results were discussed and evaluated by our own SuPER-W promoters as well as a board of external peers. Two feedback moments between fellows and REA and management committee and REA brought the long day to an end.
Second day started with the fruitful panel debate on Stakeholder involvement in resource recovery from wastewater. Bart Hommez, Business developer from Ghent university, Kirsten Steinbusch manager of Delft advanced Biorenewables, Antonella Vagliente director of young water solutions and Kala Vairavomoorthy the executive director of IWA presented their experiences and views on the matter in the panel, moderated by Prof. dr. ir. Willy Verstraete. The event continued with several professionals discussing the main obstacles in industrializing latest scientific advances in the field of resource recovery.
The event continued in the coming days with workshops and lectures organized for fellows on the topics such as ‘Valorisation and Exploitation of research’, ‘a reflection on social and environmental aspects of the research’, ‘Transition management’, ‘Societal aspects of Technology’ and ‘Life cycle assessment’; as well as a short description of CAPTURE and R2T projects in Ghent university and a presentation and the following discussion on Nereda® Technology by Mark van Loosdrecht. Social and normative aspects of Nereda® Technology was also investigated in a discussion between Mark van Loosdrecht and Sjoerd Zwart. Friday saw the conclusion of the event with a field visit to Uit je Stad, and a presentation by professionals from Evides Waterbedrijf, a company active in the field of waste water and drinking water.
