Workshop & Events

The NICOLE & PROMISCES Joint Spring Workshop 2025 will take place in Frankfurt, Germany, at the DECHEMA headquarter. 

• 26th of March: NICOLE Member Day
• 27 & 28th of March: Joint Workshop

Working towards solutions for emerging, persistent mobile industrial contaminants

Circular Economy in the Soil-sediment-water system

Increasing water consumption, shortage of land in densely populated areas and the impacts of climate change pose challenges to an industrially coordinated sustainable land and water management in Europe.

To address these challenges, it is necessary to strengthen circular economy within the Soil-sediment-water system. The circular routes are wide-ranging from water reuse to material recovery, groundwater and soil treatment. Emerging, persistent and mobile industrial contaminants pose a serious threat to sustainable management of these routes. To tackle the problems these contaminants are causing today and the risks emerging contaminants might pose in the future, several fields of action must work in tandem:

• Monitoring, modelling, and risk assessment

• (Non)technical actions

• Policy, regulatory, and financial frameworks

These actions need to align with innovative solutions and provide foresight into emerging contaminants beyond today’s most pressing challenges, such as PFAS. For more than three years, the EU funded project PROMISCES has developed solutions to enable circular economy routes within the soil-sediment-water system, a project which will end April 2025. A system that is at the heart of NICOLE’s industrially co-ordinated sustainable land and water management. It is therefore obvious to initiate this joint event to connect these two communities.

The organising committee invites you to submit abstracts on the following topics:

1. Monitoring, modelling and risk assessment
2. Taking action
3. Policy, regulatory and finance frameworks
4. Innovation – What is new towards solutions?
5. Emerging concerns – looking beyond PFAS

Besides the workshops lecture program, this year we are opening the exhibition call on: Site visit with technical demonstrations.

There will be a possibility to showcase innovative solutions around the workshop. This can vary from monitoring equipment to technical solutions for emerging, persistent mobile industrial contaminants.

Two locations are available: At the workshop location (DECHEMA-House) equipment can be presented indoors in the poster and networking area and outdoors directly in front of the building, without ground penetration. At the second location, a special area of the Industrial Site Höchst, approx. 15 minutes by car, it will be possible to take ground penetrating actions of minor size. Parties interested in the exhibition should get in touch with the NICOLE secretariat at the latest by the 31st of January 2025.

For the indoor exhibition, an area of 4 m² including two poster walls and a table with chair is available per exhibitor.