Outreach activities

Ireland

Presentations

Johnstown Castle Seminar Series

Department of Agriculture,Food and Marine (DAFM), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Wexford County Council, students, scientists.

This seminar series is used within Teagasc to engage a variety of stakeholders from regulation to farmers groups to attend specific talks and field visits. On this occasion the group were introduced to Inspiration ITN and we took a visit to a denitrifying bioreactor which is used to treat nitrates from drainage systems.

Erasmus Mundus for the Community Conference

EU commision and officials of FRSE, Sigma, SALAM, SALAM II, University of Warsaw for Erasmus Mundus ACTION 2 scholarships , scientists, alumni, students.

An all inclusive presentation was made by Golnaz Ezzati during the EM-SALAM project which led onto an introduction with respect to her new project INSPIRATION ITN.

Attendance and presentation by Minister of Agriculture in Research Integrity and Writing skills course sponsored by DAFM

Scientists, students in various field of Agri-industry

Interaction with participants in the course funded by Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM) and developed by UCD, UCC, Teagasc and offered by AGRI-FOOD Graduate Development Programme: to develop scientists' and students' skills in transferring the research results to wider audience with various academic background and knowledge.

Ramiran International Conference Field Visit

Inspiration Fieldstop - interaction over 2 hours with 200 people: scientists/policy makers/regulators/farmers/PhD students.

Introduction to objectives, field site and possible research outcomes within INSPIRATION ITN work package 4 in Johnstown Castle.

Agriculture Research US; Canada; Peru; Ireland Scientific Meeting

Inspiration Fieldstop - group that went on alternative field trip the day before.

Introduction to various projects across RAMIRAN-related topics including soil and water remediation, environmental protection, and agriculture that is being carried out in named countries.

USDA-ARS visitors

Adjunct Assistant Professor Gary Feyereisen of Department of Soil,water and Climate Minnesota and Dr Ray Bryant.

Field visit to explore an Inspiration ITN Teagasc field site which showcases flow weirs and an intensive subsurface monitoring network.

Science Week Interaction with Inspiration Growth Room Stop Q&A

Two schools from local areas - 60 kids over 2 days

Interaction with local community transferring knowledge relating to Inspiration ITN. Two schools participated in the 2 day long activities. The kids were aged between 8-10 yrs old and learned about land drainage, cleaning up water and dairy farming.

2016 Annual Information Day on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5

7/10/2016 - 7/10/2016. Croke Park, Dublin. Tellabs.

Stakeholders: Scientists, Industry

Stand with overview of all R&D projects including Inspiration.

Regular R&D Departmental Meetings

Every 6-8 weeks. Tellab, Tullow, County Carlow.

Stakeholders: R&D staff members, Managing and Technical Directors, John Cleary, PhD, BSc, Assistant Lecturer, Chemical & Analytical Science and PhD Students, Carlow IT, R&D Masters placements.

Updates regarding project progress.

Field trips

Visit of Finland Farmers

5/4/2017 - 6/4/2017

Stakeholders:Farmer discussion group from Finland, Growers

A presentation was made to this Finnish group of farmers and growers with respect to land drainage research in Ireland. As part of this presentation and discussion the Inspiration ITN project was show cased and a visit was conducted to the dairy farm. The group was very interested in design and land drainage remediation.

Crops Nutrition Course Module on Land Drainage

11/10/2017

Stakeholders:Advisor, farmers

Diverse group of advisors (private and Teagasc), farmers and professionals attend this course every year and Owen Fenton takes the land drainage component. On this occasion the group were taken to see the Inspiration ITN site where unsaturated zone gases are being examined in collaboration with UFZ in Germany.

Print media

Newsletter Teagasc: SFI Science Week at Teagasc 2017

Advisors, Administration, Scientists, students, farmers

Teagasc Johnstown Castle Science Week activities appeared in the Newsletter, which is sent to all Teagasc clients (20,000). This can be found here.

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Scotland

Presentations

Poster presentation on catchment summer school

20/9/2017 - 25/9/2017. Aberdeen (Scotland). Gisella.

Stakeholders: Relenv at scientists and phd students in the field of hydrology.

Poster presentation at annual catchment science summer school on adaptive groundwater monitoring and agricultural stressors on groundwater resources

20/08/2017 - 25/08/2017. Aberdeen (Scotland). Robin.

Stakeholders:Professors, scientists, fellow PhD students.

Shared in discussion about agriculture and water resources, field visit.

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Netherlands

Presentations

Meeting of professionals from diverse water-related subjects

23/04/17 - 28/04/17. Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Maximilian Ramgraber.

Stakeholders:Scientists, students, facilitators, engineers

Presented project vision to diverse, largely science-unrelated professionals. More information can be found here.

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SENSE presentation at graduate school symposium "Environmental Research in Context"

29/03/2017 - 31/03/2017. Apeldoorn, NL. Maddy.

Stakeholders:Scientists, PhD researchers

Introduction of ESR and Research Project at symposium, including a poster presentation, pitch and competition. More information can be found here and here.

Winner of a "pitch" competition for a modelling course, resulting in the recruitment of other PhD researchers to work on the ESR modelling project for 1 day

12/06/2017 - 23/06/2017. Wageningen, NL. Maddy.

Stakeholders:Professors, scientists, PhD researchers

Introduction of modelling component of Research Project and success in effectively pitching this idea to a group of scientists. More information can be found here and here.

Visit long-term experimental station

26/10/2017 - 26/10/2017. WUR Applied Arable and Vegetable Research, Lelystad, NL. Maddy.

Stakeholders:Scientists, advisory people

Introduction of ESR and Project at Applied Arable and Vegetable Research, collaboration on the use of long-term experimental data.

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Germany

Presentations

Workshop/Conference of the University of Tübingen/Stuttgart

02/07/17 - 07/07/17. Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Maximilian Ramgraber.

Stakeholders:Diverse scientists and students

presentation about project, established contact to a research group working on a related topic, got invited to give a talk in Stuttgart, Germany, next spring.

Presentation during DocDays 2016

29/11/16 - 30/11/16. Colditz, Germany. Izabella.

Stakeholders:Students

Introduction of INSPIRATION Marie Curie Project, and objectives of the project. Interaction with participants.

Presentation during DocDays 2016

29/11/16 - 30/11/16. Colditz, Germany. Izabella.

Stakeholders:Students

Introduction of INSPIRATION Marie Curie Project, and objectives of the project. Interaction with participants.

Master thesis presentation

10/11/2016 - ongoing. TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. Alexandra.

Stakeholders:Students, Scientists, University Professors

The work of two master students is related to the ITN project and they are supervised by the ESR and also by the supervisory team of the ESR.

Official project meeting and presentation

22/11/2017 - 22/11/2017. Flintbek, Germany. Alexandra.

Stakeholders: Landesamt für Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und ländliche Räume; Ministerium für Energiewende, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt, Natur und Digitalisierung

Oral presentation: first project outcomes.

Workshops

Leipzig, Germany

12/12/2016 - 13/12/2016: Doing your PhD project at the UFZ

7/2/2017 - 14/2/2017: Environmental Risk Assessment

6/3/2017 - 09/03/2017: Introduction to applied statistics

4/4/2017 - 5/4/2017: Media training for scientists

18/4/2017 - 20/4/2017: Critical reasoning and logic

Magdeburg, Germany

31/1/2017 - 31/1/2017: MOBICOS workshop

Halle, Germany

6/11/2017 - 7/11/2017: Rhetoric for scientist

27/11/2017 - 28/11/2017: Soil processes

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Belgium

Workshops

Attendance and networking on water contamination and remediation topics. Presented a new idea for groundwater quality monitoring addressed to UN's clean water Sustainable Development Goals

12/6/2017 - 13/6/2017. YEAR conference, Brussels, Belgium. Priyanka.

Stakeholders: Advisors, Administration, Scientists and Doctoral researchers.

Introduction of Marie Curie INSPIRATION project and the individual Project goals to fellow researchers and scientists attending the conference. More information can be found at here.

1.5 hours meeting with introduction to INSPIRATION, Marie Curie fellowships and the PhD project tasks with respect to the respective ecological field site in Flanders

10/3/2017 - 10/3/2017. VITO head office, Mol, Belgium.
30/5/2017 - 30/5/2017. VITO satellite office, Antwerp, Belgium.

Stakeholders: Belgian government representative from Natuurpunt, researchers and scientists.

Introduced the INSPIRATION Project with discussions on relevance of this particular field site to be included in this PhD project.

A whole day of PhD networking event where individual projects were briefly discussed in teams and presented (pitches)

Stakeholders: VITO PhDs, administrative staff, researchers and scientists

Introduced the INSPIRATION Project with discussions on the importance of phosphorus contamination in the groundwater.

Discussion possible ways of collaboration with the research group from UFZ (Germany). Arranging the time for the common field campaign

10/5/2017 - 10/5/2017. University of Liege (Belgium). Olha.

Stakeholders: Professionals in the field

Introduction of our INSPIRATION Project (motivation of the study, research approach, methods to be applied etc.

Meeting with the members of "Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology" and "Applied Geophysics" research groups

3/7/2017 - 3/7/2017. University of Liege (Belgium). Olha.

Stakeholders: Professionals in the field
Presentation of our INSPIRATION project as well as recent activities and results within its framework.

Review Paper, "Isotopic composition of nitrogen species in groundwater under agricultural areas: a review"

23/10/2017. Olha.

Stakeholders: Professionals in the field
Co-authors: A. Jurado, A. V. Borges, K. Knӧller, S. Brouyѐre. You can find the paper here.

Weekly meeting of the PhD group discussing the research outputs

30/1/2017 - 30/1/2017. Liège University, NCE group, Dept. of Chemical Engineering. Polina Damala.

Stakeholders: Scientists/Engineers, Administration
Introduction of ESR and INSPIRATION Project in the rest PhD candidates of the research group

Annual meeting of Geolys company

10/3/2017 - 10/3/2017. Geolys Sprl, Herve, Belgium. Polina Damala.

Stakeholders: Scientists/Engineers, Administration
Introduction of ESR and INSPIRATION Project at the company/partner of the network

Weekly seminar focusing on the dissemination of the research at the department level

22/5/2017 - 22/5/2017. Liège University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering. Polina Damala.

Stakeholders: Scientists/Engineers
Introduction of ESR, INSPIRATION project, research findings and planning

Introductory presentations of ITN Marie-Curie projects and research goals at the department level

3/7/2017 - 3/7/2017. Liège University, Dept. of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology. Polina Damala.

Stakeholders: Scientists/Engineers
Introduction of ESR, INSPIRATION project and research findings

Print media 

Natuurpunt magazine - picture and paragraph briefly describing the sampling work performed in the ecological site

June, 2017 - July, 2017. Landscape De Liereman, Flanders, Belgium. Priyanka.

Stakeholders: Representative from the field site, researcher and technician

Introduced the INSPIRATION Project and explained the importance of phosphorus contamination in the groundwater. More information can be found at here.

Briefly introduced INSPIRATION project and individual project tasks to achieve project goals

Oct 2017 - ongoing. Zwarte Beek ecological site, Flanders, Belgium

Stakeholders: Military commander, ANB, Natuurpunt, scientists and engineer

Introduced the INSPIRATION Project and explained the importance of phosphorus contamination in the groundwater

Meetings

2 hours meeting to introduce INSPIRATION and the PhD work

12/10/2017 - 12/10/2017. Brussels (Belgium). Gisela.

Stakeholders: Advisors, Administration, Scientists and Doctoral researchers.

Good feedback and interest in contribute to the research. Agreement on exchange some relevant information and ideally discuss some results to the experts in the department.

2 hours meeting to introduce INSPIRATION, and the PhD work with the aim to exchange some relevant information for the research and discuss some results to the experts in the department

20/11/2017 - 20/11/2017. St-Truiden (Belgium). Gisela.


Stakeholders: "Watering van Sint-Truiden: Erosion coordinatior / watermanager (www.land-en-water.be). Experts in erosion and runoff from the studied area. "

Good feedback and interest in contribute to the research. Agreement on exchange some relevant information and work together within the studied catchment. 

Virtual

INSPIRATION is now part of the European phosphorus platform

20/11/2017 - ongoing. European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform - web platform. Priyanka.

Stakeholders: Online

Contacted the coordinator from ESPP from previous connection to explain about the individual project and INSPIRATION Marie Curie project.

Download: ESPP EU nutrient research & development projects list (Doc, 281KB)

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Italy

Presentations

International Conference of Biochar:Production, Characterisation, and Application

20/8/2017 - 25/8/2017

Stakeholders:Scientists, students, Associazione Italiana Biochar (ICHAR)

Presenting the INSPIRATION project regarding the biosensor application as a new approach to assess the biochar performance in soil remediation. Collaboration opportunity with the Biochar Research Team, Swansea University regarding the biochar application for contaminated soil remediation.

More information can be found here.

Finding the knowledge gaps regarding biochar studies, possibles collaborations and sinergies emerged from the discussion with representatives of the Biochar UK Research Centre and the University of Swansea

20/8/2017 - 25/8/2018. Alba, Italy.

Stakeholders: Researchers from different Universities of Europe, US, Canada and Asia and representatives from private sector

The participants were invited to present an full article for the special issue of the journal Biomass and Bioenerge with the topic of the conference. This was the first conference exclusively dedicated to the discussion of production technologies, applications and characterisation of biochar. The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) has joined all the presentations and soon will be published it on the website.

More information can be found here.

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Switzerland

Presentations

Workshop on catchment hydrology, poster presentation

02/07/17 - 07/07/17. Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Maximilian Ramgraber.

Stakeholders:Diverse scientists and students

Poster presentation about project. More information can be found here.

Zhydro meeting: Meeting of water-related professionals around Zürich

22/11/17 - 22/11/17. Zürich, Switzerland. Maximilian Ramgraber.

Stakeholders:Diverse scientists, students, and professionals

Poster presentation about project. More information can be found here.

School Earth Water PhD Conference. Poster presentation

5/8/2017. University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Robin.

Stakeholders:Professors, scientists, PhD students, master and bachelor students

Discussion on water resources and conceptual models which can be used as decision making tools.

ISOCYCLE

15/10/2017 - 20/10/2017. University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Robin.

Stakeholders:scientists, economists

A Scientific Presentation.

Meetings

Interdisciplinary meeting and network-building with water professionals from varied disciplines

23/04/2017 - 28/04/2017. Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Robin.

Stakeholders:Young professionals in law, policy and government, conflict resolution, engineering, research, water resources

Verbal presentation on INSPIRATION project (no poster)

Zhydro (Zurich Hydrologists) meeting, organized and chaired by our Hydrogeology group at Eawag. Seminars and poster presentations organised

22/11/2017. ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Robin.

Stakeholders:Researchers, professors, PhD-students, post docs. All in hydrology-related fields.

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Slovenia

Presentations

Metrology in measurements of stable isotopes of light elements: traceability, uncertainty and comparability

7/12/2016 - 7/12/2016. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Julia Von Chamier.

Stakeholders:Scientists and Economics

ISO-FOOD Isotopic techniques in food characterisation

8/12/2016 - 9/12/2016. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Julia Von Chamier.

Stakeholders:Scientists and Economics

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Austria

Presentations

Poster presentation during SINA conference

24/11/17 - 25/11/17. Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Izabella.

Stakeholders:Scientists

Presenting achievements and introducing project within INSPIRATION ITN project and the links between at international level.

Workshops

Turning failure into success – What can we learn when remediation does not go as planned? NICOLE Network Spring Meeting & Workshop

15/6/2016 - 16/6/2016. Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology Radetzkystraße 2; 1030 Vienna. Tellabs.

Stakeholders:Industry, scientists

Discussions re INSPIRATION Project. For more information, download the workshop materials (Doc, 836KB)

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Argentina

Print media

Article in annual magazine published for the graduate association of ITBA (Technology Institute of Buenos Aires) - Engineering University

November 2017. Buenos Aires (Argentina). Gisella.

Stakeholders:Engineer community in Argentina

Inspiration project was introduced in the article.