On Wednesday November 25th members of WRL Tālis Juhna, Kristīna Tihomirova and Jānis Rubulis joined the forum «Cooperation for Development» organized by the Department of Business and Innovation at RTU. The forum was organized as a panel discussion of researchers and administrative personnel from RTU and representatives from Latvian municipalities. The objective of the forum […]
Following the visit of Tālis JUHNA and Inese Džarcāne (Director of International Relations Department at RTU) to Colombia in beginning of November, there was arranged return visit of Mrs. Dora María Carmona Garcés from Pontifical Bolivarian University (PUB) to WRL. The researcher Dora Carmona is representative of Environmental Research Group (GIA) and she’s research area […]
From 3rd to 6th November 2015, Tālis JUHNA was visiting leading universities in Colombia, he gave several lectures to students on “Water quality management in cities” and has established relationship for jointed project proposal for upcoming ERAnet -LAC project calls and beyond this. Presentation available here
From 29th to 30th October were BioMicroWorld Conference in Barcelona. Conference is a well-established forum that has brought together researchers in the applied microbiology field every two years since 2005. This forum is aimed at communicating current progress in the fields of environmental, industrial, food, or medical microbiology, as well as in microbial biotechnology or […]
On the 22nd October 2015, Irish Latvian Chamber of Commerce jointly with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Latvia organised Afternoon networking «Water – a Taste of Innovation» that was kindly co-hosted by the Netherlands Embassy. The Networking gathered together specialists in the water industry – professors, contractors and employers as well as bottled water […]
On 20th October in Latvian television programme «Жизнь сегодня» were story about drinking water in Riga and it’s quality. Kamila Gruskevica showed how were determined drinking water quality in laboratory. Full video watch here.
On 17th to 19th of October Sandis Dejus presented the paper «Review of Existing and Emerging Biological Contamination Detection Tools for Drinking Water Distribution Systems (DWDS) Online Monitoring» at the 7th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference in Belgrade, Serbia. More about conference here.
From 10th to 11th October 2015, Kamila Gruskevica and Kristina Tihomirova participated in Third International Conference on Advances In Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering- ACSEE 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland. Kamila also had a speach on the topic of Application of organic matter fractionation technique for evaluation of coagulation – biofiltration process at a full scale […]
On Friday October 9th Talis Juhna participated in the forum «Latvian science – how to achieveexcellence?», organised by Latvian Council of Science together with University of Latvia. In this forum participated latvian prime minister Laimdota Straujuma, minister of education and science Mārīte Seile. Talis Juhna in the forum represented the engineering sector with the participation of the report on drinking water quality problems and solutions in urban areas. The paper will […]
On October 8th 2015, were Pomacea (Affordable technology for mitigation of membrane (bio)fouling through oPtimizatiOn of pre- treatMent And ClEAnIng methods) kick-off meeting in Porto (Portugal). In meeting participated Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto (FEUP), who is leader of the group, and participiants from Germany, India and Latvia. From Water Research Laboratory there were Talis […]