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.

This workshop will explore the topic through the following sessions:
1. Monitoring, modelling and risk assessment
2. Taking action
3. Innovation – Advancing solutions
4. Exploring challenges beyond PFAS - emerging concerns, policy and regulatory
frameworks

Registration

NICOLE Members, please register for the NICOLE Member Day and the Workshop Days by logging into the NICOLE Portal. Simply navigate to the events page, where you will find the registration link waiting for you.

If you are not a member of NICOLE, please contact the NICOLE Secretariat, Ms Chayenne van Dijk.

The registration deadline is 14 March 2025.

Logistic Information

Please find the logistic details and hotel recommendations for the NICOLE Member Day and Workshop below.