Newsletter June 2020
Collaborations:
Dr Mamohloding Tlhagale – WRC – South Africa
Mr Jay Bhagwan – WRC – South Africa
Ms Khosi Jonas – WRC – South Africa
Dr Chantal Ramcharan-Kotze – WRC – South Africa
Osman Tikansak – FORMAS – Sweden
Ron Winkler – NWO – The Netherlands
Prisca Haemers – RWS – The Netherlands
Stefanie Pietsch –Juelich – Germany
Willem De Moor – JPI Oceans

Water challenges in the European Green Deal
Within the context of the Green Deal, EurAqua is organizing a webinar with the focus on nature-based solutions to increase climate resilience to hydrological extremes and to protect, conserve and enhance EU’s natural capital. This webinar will ...
Within the context of the Green Deal, EurAqua is organizing a webinar with the focus on nature-based solutions to increase climate resilience to hydrological extremes and to protect, conserve and enhance EU’s natural capital. This webinar will provide an overview of latest insights on the water challenges and the potential contribution of nature-based solutions to the Green Deal. The webinar will also address the research and innovation challenges and demonstration cases and living labs.
Webinar program
10.00
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Welcome and introduction Anna-Stiina Heiskanen – Chair EurAqua |
10:10
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Green Deal and water research challenges |
10:40
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Nature-based solutions in river basin management |
11:10
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Natural capital to support the European Green Deal |
11:40
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Nature-based solutions as a strategy to meet WFD |
12.10
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Conclusions |
12.25-12:30 |
Final remarks and closing |

16th Annual Workshop on Emerging High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS) and LC-MS/MS Applications in Environmental Analysis and Food Safety
DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION, THE ORGANIZATION HAS ADOPTED NEW MEASURES AIMED TO MINIMIZE RISK SITUATIONS. FOR THIS REASON, THE WORKSHOP WILL BE ENTIRELY ONLINE.
The main objective of the workshop is to evaluate practical aspects of the ...
DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION, THE ORGANIZATION HAS ADOPTED NEW MEASURES AIMED TO MINIMIZE RISK SITUATIONS. FOR THIS REASON, THE WORKSHOP WILL BE ENTIRELY ONLINE.
The main objective of the workshop is to evaluate practical aspects of the usefulness of highresolution mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometric techniques for screening and quantitation of organic contaminants in the environmental and food samples.
The following practical aspects and state of the art applications will be discussed:
- Advances in HRMS instrumentation and their applicability in environmental and food analysis.
- Advantages, comparison and complementarities of advanced MS instruments (tandem and hybrid) in the quantitative and qualitative determination of complex environmental and food samples.
- Advanced sample preparation technologies for food and environmental analysis including on-line pre-column technology coupled to LC/tandem MS.
- Large number of applications in environmental analysis, basically water and soil/ sediment, biota and food, like fruits and vegetables, juices and meat.
- Broad range of contaminants and their degradates.
This workshop is intended to be an informal venue that encourages an exchange of the latest information and ideas among scientists from academia, governmental agencies and industry.
Important Dates
Abstracts submission: from 20th January to 15th September
Oral acceptance confirmation: 25th September
Early bird registration: from 20th January to 31st July
Late registration: from 1st August

The FAO Land and Water Division releases the Policy Brief on “Integrated agriculture water management and health”
The growing pressures on water supplies and overuse of existing surface water and groundwater resources, coupled with the ever-present threat of zoonotic diseases as demonstrated by the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, require alternative ...
The growing pressures on water supplies and overuse of existing surface water and groundwater resources, coupled with the ever-present threat of zoonotic diseases as demonstrated by the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, require alternative approaches to water management.
The Policy Brief on "Integrated agriculture water management and health" reviews on going challenges and proposes recommendations on integrated water resources management approach that embraces the value of water in all its forms and recognizes the intrinsic role of water in protecting human, animal and ecosystem health.
This multi-sectoral approach to integrated water resources management under the One Water One Health concept of water recognizes that decisions regarding land and water use have real implications for health. Less-resilient ecosystems, shifts in patterns of disease emergence and spreading, manifest themselves when we fail to recognize this relationship.
Read the Policy Brief.