TECO Networking Conference
New Delhi, 16-17 November 2016
The first TECO Networking Conference was held with great success on the 16th and 17th of November 2016, at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Representatives of public bodies and private companies, researchers, delegates from European Embassies, and high level representatives of istitutional centres participated with the common goal to start up and reinforce collaboration between EU and India in the field of environmental sciences applied to the decontamination of polluted waters and soils.
From the first of July 2016 a new Project Manager of TECO Project has been nominated, his name is Massimo Zacchini.
WssTP was initiated by the European Commission in 2004 for Research and Technology Development in the water industry and was transformed into an independent legal entity under Belgium Law in 2007.
In May 2015 CNR and CSIR renewed the cooperative programme for the promotion and the diffusion of cooperation in scientific research and in the technological development in sectors of common interest.
The pressure exerted by the development of human societies on the planetary environment is quickly increasing, widening the already dramatic series of implications on the quality of water, soils and bioresources, bringing the resilience capacity of many ecosystems very near to their breaking point.
Water4Crops is one of the largest Euro-India collaborative projects co-funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the European Commission (under KBBE.2012.3.5-03: Biotechnological wastewater treatments and reuse in agronomical systems).
