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05.11.2017

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About 25 nutrient recovery research and demonstration projects met and presented themselves in Basel, Switzerland, 19th October, to discuss project coordination and future research needs. Projects presentincluded Horizon 2020, LIFE, Interreg and national funded R&Dprojects, as well as participants from industry and policy makers. This European Nutrient Eventwas jointly organised by ESPP, the Phos4You project and Basel Region.This was the second such European coordination meeting of nutrientR&D projects, following the first meeting organised in Berlin in2015 (see SCOPE Newsletter n°111).In Basel, the meeting concluded the need to develop continuous exchangebetween nutrient R&D projects: to avoid the stop-and-go which hasresulted in the past from meetings too far apart (2015, 2017) and fromcoordination organised by projects (three year duration).Other specificproposals included to establish a Mediterranean network on nutrientrecycling; structure cooperation between nutrient R&D projectspresent (such as joint dissemination, back-to-back events at importantindustry trade fairs); develop an independent panel and data base forevaluation of nutrient recycling technologies, systems, costs; networkacross projects of demonstration plants in different regions, differenttypes of waste / water, different treatment systems. The Basel 2017R&D project coordination event followed a first day organised byPhos4You and the German Phosphorus Platform (DPP) discussing the newregulatory obligations for phosphorus recovery in Switzerland and inGermany and presenting available technologies.

Summaries of the Swiss-German phosphorus recycling day and of the 2nd European nutrient R&D projects meeting will be published on www.phosphorusplatform.eu/scope-in-print/scope-in-press
Slides are online at www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/phos4you-phosphorus-recovery-from-waste-water-for-your-life/european-nutrient-event-presentations
Slides nutrient R&D projects speed dating session www.phosphorusplatform.eu/images/download/Basel-RD-slides-combined_v2017-10-19.pdf
Conclusions of the 1st European nutrient R&D meeting, Berlin 2015, published by the European Commission at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/circular-approaches-tophosphorus-pbKI0115204

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