Prometej (eng. Prometheus), a TV show by the Croatian Television (HTV) about science and new knowledge, innovations, ideas and discoveries, hosted our scientist Gordana Pehnec, PhD, Head of the Division of Environmental Hygiene. G. Pehnec discussed air quality, air pollution sources and research within the new project – EnvironPollutHealth. The episode was shown on March …
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EGU General Assembly 2024
The Annual EGU General Assembly 2024 was held from April 14 to 19 in Vienna, Austria, organized by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). On that occasion, a large number of different sections were held, which can be divided into 5 major groups: sections related to the entire EGU community (Union-wide); cross-cutting themes; sections related to …
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Webinar “Towards zer0 pesticide agriculture: European network for sustainability (T0P-AGRI-Network)”
On 10 Apr 2024, Dr Tijana Milićević, Research Associate Professor, Institute of Physics University of Belgrade, gave a lecture entitled “Bioaccessibility of contaminants and human health risk assessment – imperatives for mitigating the pollution in agricultural areas” within the Webinar of COST Action CA21134 “Towards zer0 pesticide agriculture: European network for sustainability (T0P-AGRI-Network)”. Dr Milićević …
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Defence of master’s thesis
On March 28th 2024, Ivana Terzić, a student at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the University of Zagreb, successfully defended her master’s thesis titled “Persistent Organic Pollutants in Freshwaters: Spatial Distribution and Risk Analysis,” supervised by Dr. Snježana Herceg Romanić and Prof. Šime Ukić. The experimental part of the research was conducted …
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Hybrid meeting – EnvironPollutHealth
Participants of the “EnvironPollutHealth” project gathered in a hybrid format meeting on March 27th, 2024. The primary focus of the gathering was to present the ongoing project tasks and acquaint external collaborators from partner institutions in Zagreb, Zadar, Belgrade, and Karlovac. The meeting proceeded successfully, and participants expressed optimism regarding the project’s future course and …
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Pesticides from our daily life
At the Professional Meeting of Biology Teachers, that was organized on March 7, 2024, in the Vocational School for Personal Services in Zagreb, Assoc. Prof. Sanja Stipičević gave a lecture entitled “Better safe than sorry or how to get out safe with pesticides”. Among other facts, the participants were educated on the most important processes …
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TV Trend: Review of EnvironPollutHealth
On March 14, the AQUATIKA-FRESHWATER AQUARIUM KARLOVAC celebrates the International Day of Rivers, as presented in the television show TV Trend by the Aquarium’s Director, Margarita Maruškić Kulaš and the head of its professional service, Goran Jakšić Ph.D. They also presented the public with the basics of the work packages within EnvironPollutHealth, particularly „Water ecosystem …
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Meeting of Young Chemical Engineers, Zagreb
The XV Meeting of Young Chemical Engineers is an international conference that took place on February 22 and 23, 2024 at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology. On that occasion, more than 200 young chemists presented 165 abstracts of their scientific and professional research on the application of modern analytical and …
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Colloquium IMROH: Air quality in Croatia
A lecture entitled “Air quality in Croatia and the challenges of achieving zero air pollution”, presented by Assoc Prof Gordana Pehnec, was held as part of IMROH’s colloquia section on Tuesday, February 20, 2024. The presented results included concentrations of pollutants in the air in the period 2018-2022 at selected measuring stations of the State …
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Study visit to the European Olympic Committee
On Monday, January 29, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, a meeting was held between representatives of the European Olympic Committee (Folker Hellmund – Director, Carlotta Giussani – Head of Finance and Francesca Carnion – EU Grants Officer) and partners of the project “About science through sport – STEMsport”, UP.04.2.1.10.0160, financed by the European Social Fund under …
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