Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, Doctor of Science Yelizaveta Chernysh took part in the Lisbon meetings of the international project "Phosphogypsum Processing to Critical Raw Materials" (PG2CRM), which aims to study the potential of integrated use of phosphogypsum while solving environmental problems. The events took place on March 18-20, 2024 at the NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal).

During December 7-8, 2023, the Associate Professor of the Department, Dr. of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor Iryna Ablieieva took part in Biogas Solutions Research Center (BSRC) Winter Conference (Linköping, Sweden). Biogas Solutions Research Center is a national competence center that aims to create strong, national competencies leading to industrially and socially motivated research on and development of biogas solutions. The center is administered by Linköping University, where Iryna Ablieieva is providing scientific research now as a guest researcher.

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies continues to actively develop international relations with foreign scientific institutions. Within the framework of cooperation with the Poznan University of Life Sciences (Poland), Dr.  Roman Vaskin, the head of the Laboratory of Biogas Technologies paid a working visit to the Laboratory of Ecotechnologies of this university.

During November 13-17, 2023, the Associate Professor of the Department, Dr. Of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor Iryna Ablieieva took part in the Research & Innovation Week within the framework of the MIRAI 2.0 program. MIRAI 2.0 R&I Week serves as a unique opportunity to strengthen collaboration between Sweden and Japan in research, innovation, and education. This in-person event brings together researchers, students, and university management from all 20 Swedish and Japanese MIRAI 2.0 member universities, as well as research funding agencies and policy makers. This event was hosted by Umeå University (Sweden) and sponsored by Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.

Dr. Yelizaveta Chernysh, associate professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, participated in the Riga 2023 - EUSBSR Annual Forum. 

In October of this year, Yelizaveta Chernysh, Doctor of Science, Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, as a member of the program committee and chairman of the session "Ukraine - Current Challenges and Opportunities", took part in the 4th Multidisciplinary Conference for Young Researchers "Energy, Sustainable Development and Society" (October 5-6, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic).

Inna TRUNOVA, Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Technologies of Sumy State University, and Yevhen BATALTSEV, Senior Lecturer of the Department, completed their studies at the international online summer school of the University of Liverpool, which took place from 3 to 21 July 2023.

The spring online school for everyone, which includes the course "EU implementation of bioenergy technologies for waste recycling" within the Jean Monnet module "Bioenergy innovations in waste management: European experience in implementing a circular economy" (BIOINWASTE) of the EU Erasmus+ program under Grant Agreement No. 101085172 (2023-2025), which will begin in mid-April, was announced by Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies Yelizaveta Chernysh. A recording of the announcement can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk08Mtuyuag

The international grant project "Follow-up Cooperation Training for Ukraine on Issue-specific Training "Industrial Technology Education" was completed, in the framework of which 9 scientific and pedagogical workers from the Faculty of TeSET completed an intensive educational course on overcoming barriers to Ukrainian engineering education during war Among the participants of the project is Assoc. Prof. Iryna Vaskina, senior teacher of the EEPT department, Ph.D.

The MSCA4Ukraine consortium has announced the results of the evaluation and selection of grant program participants. Funding under the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Program is provided to 124 scientists from Ukraine to continue their research in 21 host countries. Scholarships were awarded to applicant organizations from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Among the scientists who received this support is Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies Yelizaveta Chernysh. She received a grant to conduct postdoctoral research at the Czech University of Natural Sciences in Prague as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action grant program.

On February 16, at the invitation of Assoc. Prof. Iryna Ablieieva hosted an open online lecture by the foreign lecturer Assoc. Prof. Karin Tonderski (University of Linköping, Sweden) on the topic " Role of wetlands in the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients from farmlands", devoted to the International Day of Wetlands. The key audience was the first- and second-year students of study programs 101 "Ecology and environmental protection" and 183 "Environmental protection technologies". The chosen topic of the lecture ensured its interdisciplinary nature in terms of educational components "General ecology (and neoecology)" (wetland ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles), "Hydrology and hydrobiology" (hydrological and hydrobiological regimes of water bodies) and "Landscape science" (water landscapes – wetlands).

Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Technologies Dr. Yelizaveta Chernysh presented a joint work with Czech colleagues on the topic "Biopotential of agricultural waste: production of biofertilizers and biofuels". The author's team also included other academic staff of the department, in particular senior lecturer Dr. Iryna Ableyeva, PhD students Viktoriia Chubur and Polina Skvortsova.

Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Technologies, Doctor of Technical Sciences Yelizaveta Chernysh, who is the Director of the International Innovation and Applied Center "Aquatic Artery", took part in the Informal Meeting of EU Water Directors, which took place on November 20-22, 2022 in Prague (Czech Republic). This is a regular meeting of EU water directors and representatives of the European Commission on topical water issues, as well as on improving and harmonizing the implementation of legislation in the field of water environment protection, in particular the Water Framework Directive.

As part of the development of cooperation with the Masaryk Research Institute, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Technologies Yelyzaveta Chernysh took part in the international conference "Wastewater", held on October 19-21, 2022 in Slovakia. She took part in the poster section on "Food waste co-treatment with wastewater: a case study under footprint approach", which was developed in co-authorship with Czech colleagues.

Roman VASKIN, Associated Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, Sumy State University (Ukraine) took part in project ERASMUS+ No. 2021-1-PL01-KA131-HED-000003560 at the Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, University of Life Sciences in Lublin. The program lasted from October 3 till October 7, 2022.

October 6, 2022 senior lecturer of the department, Ph.D., Associate Professor Iryna Ablieieva, at the invitation of her colleague Alex Enrich Prast from the Linköping University, Sweden, participated in a webinar lecture for students of higher education studying at this university under various programs, including exchange programs for foreign students.

Department of Ecology and environmental technologies is the winner of the direction "Jean Monnet" Erasmus + by results of the competition 2022 and will implement the project "Bioenergy innovations in waste management: European experience in the economy (European experience in economy)" (BIOINWASTE - 101085172 - ERASMUS-JMO-2022-MODULE).

Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies Yelizaveta Chernysh is currently a visiting scientist at the T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute in Prague (Czech Republic) in the wastewater and water treatment department.

Despite the difficult situation in the country and prolonged hostilities, we must continue active work within the project, because this knowledge will come in handy after victory!

Thus, Iryna Vaskina, PhD, Senior Lecturer, took part in the 3rd International Scientific Conference “ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING”, which took place on June 28 – July 1, 2022 in Poznan, Poland.

From April 18 to June 30, 2022, senior teacher Iryna Vaskina completed a scientific internship at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Poznań University of Life Sciences. The goal of the academic mobility program was to increase the level of practical training in conducting applied research at the laboratory of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection in the field of measurement and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, analysis of climate changes, as well as biogas and biomethane production technologies from various types of raw materials.