TEAM

Project partners

PUT – Poznan University of Technology
AQ – AQUANET Spółka Akcyjna
GUT – Gdańsk University of Technology
SUT – Silesian University of Technology
UWM – University of Warmia and Mazury
NIVA – Norwegian Institute for Water Research
VEAS – Vestfjorden Avløpsselskap

Poznan University of Technology​

Partner Leader:
Zbysław Dymaczewski zbyslaw.dymaczewski@put.poznan.pl

Poznań University of Technology (Politechnika Poznańska), a leading university of technology in the country, which offers education at 9 faculties, running a total of 31 fields of study. About 16,000 students study here and over 1,300 academic teachers care about their education.  The confirmation of the high scientific position of the university is the parametric evaluation of scientific units of the KEJN (Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific Units). Poznan University of Technology has over 460 active bilateral agreements in the Erasmus+ program, which enable over a thousand students and several hundred employees to travel abroad and over 190 active agreements with foreign centers from around the world, including joint research and exchange of students and university employees. 

https://www.put.poznan.pl/en/university/about-university

AQUANET Spółka Akcyjna

Partner Leader:
Paulina Szulc

AQUANET SA (AQ) is one of the leading water supply and sewage companies in Poland. With its more than 150-year lasting experience in the management of the water cycle in Greater Poland region, AQ wants to re-write the history of Polish wastewater (WW) sector. We believe that combined practical and scientific approach, driven by care for the natural environment, results in the new quality of eco-circularity and bioecomy introduced to WW treatment. For more than 25 years, AQ has initiated R&D projects with PUT and other universities, utilities and companies, e.g. focusing on enhanced nutrient removal and nutrient recovery, anaerobic digestion and smart management of food waste. Often held in a pilot-, large- or even full-scale, all these trials have accelerated AQ’s and PUT’s involvement in research, development and innovation activities, including the project BARITECH (2013-2017) financed by Norway Grants.

Gdańsk University of Technology

Partner Leader:
Jacek Mąkinia
jmakinia@pg.edu.pl

Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) has 9 faculties and educates approx. 16000 students. The project tem will involve the staff of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (scientific category A). The team has extensive experience in the implementation of national and international research projects focused on a practical applications (including 2 projects within the EU Framework Programmes and 2 projects under the Operational Programs, POIG and POIR), as well as in the development and implementation of new technologies, equipment and research stands.

Silesian University of Technology

Partner Leader:
Joanna Surmacz – Górska
joanna.s.gorska@polsl.pl

Silesian University of Technology (SUT) established in 1945 is the oldest technical university in the Upper Silesia region and one of the most prestigious in Poland. 15 educational units of the University – 13 faculties, one college and a scientific-didactic centre – currently offer almost 60 study programmes and about 200 specializations, including the whole spectrum of engineering studies. Nowadays, SUT educates almost 20,000 students. The Environmental Biotechnology Department EBD is a part of the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, established in 1993. The Faculty has the highest scientific category A+ in the classification of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Nowadays the EBD is one of the leading research and educational centres in the field of environmental biotechnology in Poland. The numerous research projects (e.g. EU-projects POSEIDON and KNAPPE), networking and educational activities (e.g. EU-project TRITON and COST actions) and co-operations with local authorities and industry. The EBD brings together theoretical and applied research in environmental sciences, especially in biotechnology merged with other processes in co-treatment techniques and in eco-toxicology. The EBD team has an experience with humic substances removal gained in projects dealing with landfill leachate treatment where biological methods were successfully merged with advanced oxidation processes.

University of Warmia and Mazury

Partner Leader:
Sławomir Ciesielski
slawomir.ciesielski@uwm.edu.pl

University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM) in Olsztyn is a public university with 17 faculties. UWM currently holds 74 majors and educates more than 20000 students. The project will be carried out by the staff of the Department of Environmental Biotechnology (DEB), Faculty of Environmental Sciences. The DEB has experience in the implementation of scientific projects in the field of environmental biotechnology and environmental engineering funded by both state institutions and the private sector. The Department of Environmental Biotechnology employs staff specializing in biotechnology, molecular microbiology and in environmental engineering. The research team has experience in the use of methods of microbiology, wastewater treatment, biopolymers synthesis and extraction. The team cooperates with other Polish partners (GUT, PUT, SUT) in the projects funded by National Center for Science and National Centre for Research and Development.

Norwegian Institute for Water Research

Partner Leader:
Paweł Krzemiński
pkr@niva.no

The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is Norway’s foremost professional competence center for environmental and resource issues relating to the field of water. NIVA carries out fundamental and applied research, monitoring, as well as innovation and development work. Expertise of the NIVA’s 15 research sections covers, among others, the fields of water resource management, environmental technology, environmental pollutants. Annually, over 200 employees carry out app. 700 projects at international, national and local levels. NIVA has extensive experience in international research cooperation with international assignments accounting for 25% of the turnover in 2018. NIVA has past and ongoing collaboration activities with VEAS, and had previously collaborated with SUT and PUT in the Water2020 COST Action. NIVA’s research team consists of both senior and young researchers, with the expertise in biotechnology, environmental and chemical engineering, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry.

VEAS Vestfjorden Avløpsselskap

Partner Leader:
Rune Holmstad
ruho@veas.nu

Vestfjorden Avløpsselskap (VEAS) is an intermunicipal company that designs, builds, owns and operates VEAS WWTP, Norway’s largest WWTP (ca. 750 000 PE). The company is co-owned by the municipalities of Oslo, Bærum and Asker. VEAS WWTP is an advanced chemical-biological treatment plant that already today utilises many of the inherent resources in the wastewater; they produce biogas, a soil amendment product (VEAS soil) and a nitrogen-fertiliser product (ammonium-nitrate) and facilitate and sell the right to recover heat from the influent to district heating companies. VEAS has always been forward-leaning and innovative and taken part in many national and international research projects to improve the treatment and recovery processes. Several of these projects have been together with NIVA. Due to their several decades of experience with ammonia stripping and recovery, their process engineer will be directly involved in pilot testing of ammonia stripping, combined nitrogen recovery and biogas upgrading at VEAS WWTP. VEAS will facilitate field testing of MECs at the plant. Senior project manager in VEAS’ department for strategic development, will be leading and coordinating all work that will be conducted by VEAS personnel during the project.