H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/675530

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675530”

ANtibioticS and mobile resistance elements in WastEwater Reuse

applications: risks and innovative solutions

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/675530 - ANSWER

Outreach Activity 5:

"Visit to end users"

ESR 15: Nikiforos Alygizakis

Environmental Institute

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Description

- Date of the event: 22-31 August 2017

- Place where the event took place: Event took place in 7 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). More

specifically, WWTP of Bucharest (Romania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Varaždin (Croatia), Zagreb

(Croatia), Budapest (Hungary), Krško (Slovenia) and Zilina (Slovakia).

- Audience Details (number of participants, age, sex, etc.): Target audience was WWTP workers and

operators. In total 13 workers and operators participated in the discussion about the project. 6 of them

were female and 7 were male. The age of the participants was more than 35 years old.

- Description of the topic of your presentation: The dissemination activity took place while collecting

effluent wastewater samples from WTTPs across European countries. Participants were very much

interested in the parameters to be measured in their samples. This was the motivation for discussion

about ANSWER project (objectives and research goals) as well as hazardous chemicals and other

materials (genes, bacteria) that can be found in the output water of a WWTP with traditional treatment.

Participants were introduced to the problem of antibiotic resistance and were informed about

wastewater reuse for irrigation, which is applied in countries with water shortage.

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Photos of the event

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“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675530”

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Participants

Participants Location of the WWTP Date

Ivanov Alina Elena Bucharest, Romania 22/08/2017

Mariana Omota Cluj-Napoca, Romania 23/08/2017

Liana Lăzărescu Cluj-Napoca, Romania 23/08/2017

Mario Maqdalcnić Varaždin, Croatia 25/08/2017

Zlatko Trtinjak Varaždin, Croatia 25/08/2017

Sivrić Marijan Varaždin, Croatia 25/05/2017

Goran Piša Zagreb, Croatia 26/08/2017

Željko Ladiš Zagreb, Croatia 26/08/2017

Bernadett Lemaire Budapest, Hungary 29/08/2017

Alojz Baznik Krško, Slovenia 30/08/2017

Justina Šepetavc Krško, Slovenia 30/08/2017

Aleksandra Račič Kozmus Krško, Slovenia 30/08/2017

Pavol Haluška Žilina, Slovakia 31/08/2017

Final Remarks

- Discussion with participants was very active. They would like to know more about the water quality of their

region. All of them expressed their interest for the results of their samples.

- I would like to express my thankfulness to my colleagues from EI who helped to organize the sampling

campaign. Also, I would like to thank my colleague Joerg Ahlheim for his participation in the campaign.