Announcements

CEN Workshop Agreement now published

April 3, 2025

We have now published our CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on "Soil-sediment-water system - Solutions to deal with PMT/vPvM substances".

Developed through the collaboration of Horizon Europe projects PROMISCES, ZeroPM, and SCENARIOS Project EU, this document presents essential solutions for managing PMTand vPvM substances in the environment.

The CWA provides best practices, guidelines, and solutions for PMT/vPvM management, including prevention at the source, detection & risk assessment, and end-of-pipe treatment solutions.

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PROMISCES Final Roll-Out Event

February 25, 2025

On March 27-28, 2025, the PROMISCES Final Roll-Out Event will take place in collaboration with the NICOLE Network!

This event brings together industry, academia, and policymakers to discuss innovative solutions for emerging, persistent mobile industrial contaminants with a focus on the circular economy in the soil-sediment-water system.

Key Topics:
- Monitoring, modeling & risk assessment
- Taking action
- Innovation – Advancing solutions
- Exploring challenges beyond PFAS - emerging concerns, policy and regulatory frameworks

The conference will be free of charge and open to everyone.

Do you want to join this event, but you are not a NICOLE member? No problem! Please contact the NICOLE secretariat for registration details!

This event is free of charge!

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Online course about PFAS

February 2, 2025

Join the online course about PFAS and their toxicity, regulation and environmental impact by TU Delft on 12 February, 2025. One of the instructors is Mariska Rondeltap from our PROMISCES partner Delfland Water Authority. The course is supported by PROMISCES.

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New Scientific Publications

January 23, 2025

You can now find new publications from our PROMISCES partners in the results section!

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PROMISCES' Water Projects Europe event on PFAS Solutions

January 8, 2025

The three European projects PROMISCES, SCENARIOS and LIFE SOuRCE joined forces for a Water Projects Europe event on “PFAS Solutions: Technologies and Policies for Circular Water Cycles in Support of the Zero Pollution Action Plan”, providing a deep dive into their PFAS management strategies. It was attended by nearly 80 participants and by that warming up the audience for WaterKnowledgeEurope 2024.

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New Series "PFAS Points" started

November 26, 2024

In our new series "PFAS Points", we want to introduce you to the topic of PFAS: What are PFAS? Why are they so dangerous? What is being done about them? And how does PROMISCES support the fight against PFAS? The first part "What are PFAS" is now available in our blog!

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PROMISCES is organising a Water Projects Europe event

November 14, 2024

The three European projects PROMISCES, SCENARIOS and
LIFE SOuRCE join forces for a Water Projects Europe event on
“PFAS Solutions: Technologies and Policies for Circular Water Cycles in Support of the Zero Pollution Action Plan”, providing a deep dive into their PFAS management strategies.

Join us on 10 December, 2024, from 9:00 - 12:30 CET to explore strategies to move towards the Zero Pollution Action Plan and for the opportunity to meet with experts on PFAS treatment technologies and policies for water cycles!

The event is part of Water Knowledge Europe and will be free of charge.

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PROMISCES 5^th Steering Committee Meeting

November 12, 2024

On November 8, 2024, we had our 5^th Steering Committee Meeting!

All partners met online to present their work and to discuss the project's outcomes. We had very fruitful conversations and also interactive sessions about policy recommendations and exploitable results.

Another focus was on the partners' next steps in PROMISCES. You can look forward to several new publications and many results with a big impact!

Our conclusion: The project is progressing very well towards its end!

PROMISCES Session at REMTECH Europe

September 20, 2024

On September 18, our PROMISCES session "PFAS treatment technologies for contaminated sites : soils, sediments and groundwater" took place at REMTECH Europe. During the session, the project was introduced. After that, our speakers gave all participants a deep dive into the PFAS treatment technologies that are used and developed in PROMISCES.

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PROMISCES at SCENARIOS Workshop

September 5, 2024

This week, the workshop on PFAS remediation in action, organised by our sister project SCENARIOS, took place in Denmark. Floris Naus from our partner National Institute for Public Health and the Environment took part and even gave a presentation on the Decision Support Framework and the lessons learned from the PROMISCES co-creation workshops.

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Policy Brief: Achieving zero pollution by 2050 needs regulatory change

August 12, 2024

Together with our sister projects from the Green Deal Health Cluster, we published a Policy Brief: "Achieving zero pollution by 2050 needs regulatory change: a call for policy support of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)"

The Policy Brief has been developed especially for policy makers and provides key findings and recommendations from these projects that are deemed essential to achieve the goal of a zero-pollution Europe.

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PROMISCES' session at REMTECH Europe 2024!

July 26, 2024

Save the date! On 18 September, 2024, PROMISCES will be attendig REMTECH Europe with a dedicated session about PFAS treatment technologies for contaminated sites.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of PFAS treatment technology discussions.

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2nd PROMISCES Review Meeting

July 19, 2024

On July 9, we had our second review meeting which was held online. During the meeting, all partners had the opportunity to present their results and to answer the questions of the reviewers. All went well and we are looking forward to further working on PROMISCES!

PROMISCES at KWB WasserWerkstatt

July 18, 2024

On 9 July, 2024, our partners from Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin (KWB) hosted again a "WasserWerkstatt". Regina Gnierss, Frederik Zietzschmann and Fiona RückbeilFrederik Zietzschmann from our partners Berliner Wasserbetriebe presented the PROMISCES Case Study 1 "PFAS and (i)PM(T) fate and remediation in the semi-closed urban water cycle".

KWB also published a video!

Video

PROMISCES' 2nd Newsletter out now!

April 30, 2024

We published our second newsletter!

Delve deeper into the case studies and their interesting findings - from the fate and migration of PFAS from soil contaminated by aqueous film forming foams to analysing stormwater runoff and monitoring PFAS at river bank filtration sites. It's definitely worth a read!

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Webinar on "Remediating Contaminated Sites by Persistent, Mobile, and Toxic Substances: H2020 Projects Case Studies & Results"

March 11, 2024

Save the date! On 10 April, 2024, PROMISCES, ZeroPM and SCENARIOS are planning a webinar about PFAS remediation techniques.

The webinar is a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights into innovative solutions for addressing persistent, mobile, and toxic substances. Don't miss the chance to broaden your knowledge and engage with experts in the field.

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Kick-off meeting for CEN Workshop Agreement

February 23, 2024

On 15 February, we met for the kick-off meeting of our CEN Workshop on “Soil-sediment-water system - Solutions to deal with PMT/vPvM substances”! During this meeting, all participants got a deeper insight on what the CWA is about and an overview about the involved projects. Further, the project plan was introduced. The participants also had the opportunity to discuss the CWA topics and bring in their expertise.

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PROMISCES at CWP's "Water Innovation Day"

16 February, 2024

PROMISCES was presented at the Catalan Water Partnership CWP "Water Innovation Day" on 14 February, 2024!

Our partner Maria José Muñoz from Consorci Besòs Tordera (CBT) not only told the audience in an elevator pitch about their tasks in the project but also explained Case Study 3. In this Case Study, CBT together with other partners is working on promoting the water reuse in the Besòs River basin. This is very important, especially in the dry areas of Catalonia where water restrictions and consumption cuts are often adopted due to the occurrence of severe droughts.

At the event, 15 innovative water projects were presented to ca. 135 people in the audience.

Video of the second online webinar on "Models of Toxicology" now online

February 14, 2024

Did you miss the second online webinar on "Models of Toxicology" of our sister project ALTERNATIVE? No problem! You can now find the video of the webinar online to rewatch.

Our colleague Anita Sosnowska from QSAR Lab presented their Structure-based approach for predicting toxicity of PFAS at the webinar.

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CEN Workshop Agreement

Great news ahead! PROMISCES, in collaboration with our sister projects ZeroPM and SCENARIOS, is developing a CEN Workshop Agreement focused on the soil-sediment-water system. This agreement aims to provide solutions for managing PMT/vPvM substances.

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PROMISCES at Ecomondo

At the Ecomondo 2023, PROMISCES will be represented at the European Commission stand. In addition, there will also be presentations about PROMISCES by partners.

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Article: More knowledge on PFAS in water

Our partners from Deltares recently published an article about PROMISCES in their deltalife magazine. To give an overview over the project and why it is so important, Deltares talked to Julie Lions, the project coordinator from BRGM.

Further, they tell more about their task in the project which is, e.g., developing in collaboration a model train to simulate the PFAS transportation. Here, artificial intelligence and machine learning play a vital role.

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