On November 5, 2020 the Remote workshop “Best available practice for miscanthus utilization to be used in the paper industry” within CORNET MiscanValue project was organized on-line with participation of NATO SPS G4687. The workshop...

On October, 27 a research team of NULP, Ukraine, i.e.: Dr.Sc. Pavlo Shapoval, Co-Director and young researchers: Dr. Vitalyi Stadnik and Dr.Martyn Sozansky visited the miscanthus plantations in Dolyna in order to finalizing the multiyear...

The Sub-workshop 3 for Ukrainian end-users (as part of workshop 2) was accomplished on October 29, 2020. The event was organized in Skvira rayon, Kyiv region in cooperation with Shamraivka governmental council and mainly provided...

Sub-workshop for Ukrainian Participants (as part of workshop 2) was provided on October 15, 2020 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine in cooperation with Polyssya National University. 20 participants from Zhytomyr regions: ecological professionals, land-owners, members of the...

The open-air Sub-workshop for Ukrainian participants (as part of workshop 2) was provided on October 3, 2020 in Tokarivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine where the research miscanthus plantation was established in 2017 within the framework of...

On September 8, 2020 the NULES team: Dr. Tatyana Stefanovska, PhD student Artem Medkow, researchers Maria Ovruch and Svitlana Yanchuk along with prof. Valentina Pidlisnyuk (UJEP) participated in the Zoom seminar “Energetic crops for bioenergy...

The third conference “UJEP students of science and technology programmes conference StudKon 2020“ took place at Faculty of Environment, UJEP on June 29th, 2020. The programme consisted of oral presentations, posters with short introductions and...

UJEP as a leading organization of the project has developed numbers of the partnering agreements during project implementation, including those with Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University (TNPU) in Ternopil, Ukraine. Currently this university celebrates...

On April 14, 2020 PhD student in Soil and Environmental Chemistry, KSU, USA Zafer Alasmary successfully defended Ph.D. thesis «Laboratory- to field-scale investigations to evaluate phosphate amendments and miscanthus for phytostabilization of lead-contaminated military sites“. The...

Being in Canada prof.Valentina Pidlisnyuk did a number of negotiations related to possible cooperation on possibility to convert miscanthus biomass produced at the marginal and military lands to bioenergy and bioproducts. She had a meeting...

On January, 7-28, 2020 professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk visited Kansas State University, USA. In cooperation with KSU Co-Directors: Larry Erickson, Ganga Hettiararchi, Lawrence Davis and KSU professor Kraig Roozeboom she worked on a book design which...

On January, 2020 professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk is visiting Kansas State university for discussion the current project results received by three KSU Co-Directors: Dr.Erickson, Dr.Davis and prof. Hettiarachchi. Together with Dr.Erickson she is also working on...

Responding to numerous requests of potential end users to obtain information regarding Miscanthus phytotechnologies with biomass production to be converted to renewable energy SPS MYP G4687 team at NULES organized a workshop “Current state and...

On November 21, 2019 NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme organized a mission event in Kyiv, Ukraine with the goal to estimate the achievements and implementation of the on-going and recently accomplished NATO SPS...

The Second International conference on new strategy in bioremediation process BioRemid2019 was organized in Porto, Portugal on October 24th and 25th, 2019. The event was hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)...

Dissemination the project results at the VII International conference “Selected Aspects of Integrated Environmental Management”, Zvolen, Slovak Republic Young researcher Ing.Jan Cerny, member of UJEP team, participated in the VII International conference “Selected Aspects of...

7th International Scientific Conference Applied Natural Sciences 2019 (ANS2019) organized by the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia in cooperating with the Faculty of Environment, UJEP and other...

NATO partner Director Dr. Tatyana Stefanovska, NULES, Ukraine attended the 15th “Biomass for Energy 2019 Conference” held in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 24-25th, 2019. The conference brought together stakeholders interested in different aspects of bioenergy:...

The Annual RemTech Show was held in Ferrara, Italy on September 18-20,2019. That event is among the well-recognized European Exhibition where the modern innovative technologies, apparatus, supplemented techniques related to remediation of soil and water...

On August 30, 2019 prof. Pidlisnyuk along with Mr.Horenovsky, Head of Cluster WASten, Czech Republic visited a firm Technical Service Kuehn GmBH, Germany on their invitation. While at the firm a discussion related to miscanthus...

Dr. Malinská,UJEP attended ACPB 2019 conference organized in London,GB on July, 11-13,2019. The conference main topic was about safeguarding the plant community for global development and environmental concerns. While at the conference she did a...

On July 25, 2019 the Training in measuring of plants’ stress was organized jointly by UJEP, Czech Republic and Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University (TNPU) in Ternopil, Ukraine. The training was led by prof....

On June 24-25 the European Forum in Science, Research and Innovation held in Dresden, Germany. The event was organized by the Free State of Saxony, the Helmholtz Association in close cooperation with the European Research Council...

In Mil5 two items of equipment were purchased by NULES team: analyzer KH-2M for measuring the oil-products concentration in the soil, water and plant tissues and scanning spectrophotometer Ulab 108 UV for measuring organic substances...

First year of “UJEP students of science and technology programmes conference StudKon2019“ took place in a pleasant environment of Pearl water court, farm house near Budyně nad Ohří, Czech Republic. The programme was divided in...

On February, 21-27 NDP Valentina Pidlisnyuk made the mission trip to Ukraine in order to discuss in details the design and practical implementation of the Lab experiment with  miscanthus growing at the simulated oil-contaminated soil....

On February 5, 2019 the Czech-German Day of Applied Science was held in Prague organized by Office of the Government of the Czech Republic in Germany and Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in...

New devices for evaluation the miscanthus stress  Three new handheld machines were purchased recently at UJEP: two fluorimeters PAR-FluorPenFP110-LM/D containing appliances for dark adaptation to measure the level of photosynthesis and basic plant’s well-being parameters...

Three Post Docs have recently joined the Department of Technical Science at UJEP: Sebastiana Roccuzzo, Italy, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Karim Al Souki, Libanon, PhD in...

On December 19-24, 2019 professor Valentina Pidlisnyuk, NDP did a mission trip visit to Kyiv, Ukraine. The goal of the trip was about future activities to be accomplished within G4687 in Ukraine.  While at NULES...

On September, 27th, 2018 Dr. Tatyana Stefanovska and PhD student Artem Medkov (NULES, Ukraine) participated in the international seminar “Agricultural residues for bioenergy production: problems and solutions”. The event was organized in Kyiv, Ukraine by...

On March 6, 2018 members of the UJEP project team: prof. Pidlisnyuk, Dr.Trogl and Mgr. Cerny participated in the event organized by paper production factory PTS, Heidenau, Germany. That educational event was organized in order...

On February, 21, 2018 Tatyana Stefanovska and Artem Medkov (NULES) participated in the Seminar “Energy crops from cultivation to utilization. Foreign and domestic experience”. The seminar was organized as a capacity building event in the...

The main goal of the visit was to present the project at UA, to discuss the project’s results with the Maier research group, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, UA, to provide negotiation about...

Meeting with Dr. Jim Campbell at USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, Manhattan, Kansas Assoc. Prof. Tatyana Stefanovska and Prof. Valentna Pidlisnyuk visited the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),...

The event was organized and sponsored by Center for Hazardous Substance Research, KSU, the Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability and NATO SPS MYP project G4687. The Seminar provided information to KSU students, faculty members...

Prof. Pidisnyuk, UJEP visited on December 14-21 Croatia in order to finalize the three years semi-field experiment on growing M.xgiganteus at the metal contaminated soils from Bakar, Croatia. The experiment was going on at the...

Zafer Alasmary, a Ph.D. student in Soil and Environmental Chemistry, KSU project Graduate Student, presenting his research at Fort Riley Site entitled “Field-Based Investigations on Stabilization of a Contaminated Military Site via Combined Use of...

Training was organized by NATO team from the Department of Technical Sciences, UJEP. The event was held on November 7-9, 2017 at the Faculty of the Environment, UJEP in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Altogether 38 participants attended the training from 10 countries, including 30 young researchers and PhD students. Consequently, those young researchers and […]

Member of NATO team Professor Larry Erickson and professor Ganga Hettiarachchi, Kansas State University, USA represented of the NATO project activities at the 14th International Phytotechnologies Conference (IPC) held in Montreal, Canada September, 25-29, 2017....

On October 4-6, 2017 G4687 the International conference “Plant Ontogenesis in Natural and Transformed Environment” was held in Lviv, Ukraine. Participants from Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic attended the event. The NATO...

On September 19, 2017 Dr. Volodymyr Kvak and MSc Artem Medkov, PhD student, NULES took part at Dutch-Ukrainian training “Biofuels Market in Ukraine: A Step to Energy Independence”. The event was held within the framework...

Attending the hemp harvest field in Germany On September 11-12 prof. Pidlisnyuk accomplished a mission trip to Hanffaser Urkermatk, Germany. The main goal was to develop further contacts with the firm which can be a...

Presentation of the phytotechnology at RemTech conference, Italy On September 20-22, 2017 prof. Pidlisnyuk participated in the conference RemTech Europe was organized by the Joint Research Centre JRC, European Commission in Ferrara, Italy. The conference...

Purchasing of Gerstel CIS4 inlet for GC Agilent 7890A at IPBB, Kazakhstan The inlet Gerstel CIS4 for GC Agilent 7890A was purchased at IPBB, Kazakhstan. That equipment is a programmable temperature evaporating inlet for GC...

On August, 5 prof. Valentina Pidlisnyuk attended an Open Day at the factory Hanffauser Uckermark, Prenzlau. Enterprise is specialized in production of building materials from biomass, including hemp. The firm may be interesting of supplying...

On July 9-13, 2017 two members of UJEP team Dr. Josef Trögl and PhD student Diana Nebeská participated at 7th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS 2017) in Valencia, Spain. This event was organised by Federation...

On June 26-30, 2017 NATO project team from NULP,i.e. Dr.Pavlo Shapoval,young researchers Martyn Sozanskyi and Vitaliy Stadnik took part in the International Scientific Conference “Chemical Technology and Engineering” (CTE-2017). That conference was included in the...

On June 25-29, 2017 UJEP team member PhD student Diana Nebeská participated at 6th International Symposium on Biosorption and Biodegradation/Bioremediation organized by University od Chemistry and Technology in Prague. She presented results of phytoremediation influence...

During mission trip to Ukraine prof. Pidlisnyuk, NDP visited NULES and had number of meeting with members of NATO project team and top-management of the organization. Prof Pidlisnyuk discussed results of the experiment on miscanthus...

New model of XRF Analyzer “ElvaX Light SDD Spectrometer” was purchased within G4687 project for NATO team works at NULP (Co-Director Dr.Pavlo Shapoval). The equipment is a new model of desktop energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF)...

On June 19, 2017 Knowledge Dissemination Workshop “Introduction of phytotecnology for cleaning military sites with using Miscanthus x giganteus“ was held at Volodymur Gnatuk, National Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine. Faculty members, Master and PhD students...

On June 15-16, 2017 Dr. Volodymur Kvak, member of NATO team from NULES, participated at the All-Ukrainian scientific-practical conference “Actual questions of modern technologies for cultivation of the agricultural crops in the climate change conditions”....

On June 16 prof. Pidlisnyuk together with PPD Tatyana Stefanovska and member of her team Ludmila Kava, Co-Director Pavlo Shapoval and members of his team Martyn Sozanskyi and Vitalii Stadnik visited the demonstration site established...

On May 22-28, 2017 prof. Pidlisnyuk and Dr.Stefanovska made a mission trips to Belgium. The main goals were: a) to participate at the 69th International Symposium on Crop Protection with reports; to visit to the...