NICOLE E-News April 2015
NICOLE Workshop updateSpring workshop (24- 26 June 2015): The Manchester Workshop Organisation Committee is working very hard at the moment in reviewing and selecting abstracts to shape the final program of the workshop. As many members have indicated, they believe an interactive session as part of the Workshop would be very useful. Prof. David Polya at the University of Manchester has drafted a questionnaire which we would like as many members as possible to complete prior to the workshop and in preparation for the interactive session. Please check the member section on the NICOLE website for the questionnaire. Fall workshop (4-6 November 2015): Please block your agenda for the NICOLE fall workshop in Brussels. The workshop will focus on ELD matters. A more detailed message on the content and call for OC will be sent out shortly. Should you have any questions about this, please feel free to send them to the NICOLE Secretariat. |
Welcome to our new Service Provider Group member!A very warm welcome to our new member BURGEAP! Today, sustained urban development is thought of as being an integrated engineering domain. The challenges, which are set by new approaches concerning energy, waste, water ecology, mobility, noise and air, address all fields of activity covered by BURGEAP and, above all, their capacity to combine and secure the interaction among these different fields of activity to be able to create consolidated visions of urban eco-systems. For more information please visit their website. |
Welcome to our new and first member from Australia!A very warm welcome to our new member CRC Care! CRC CARE Pty Ltd is an independent organisation that performs research, develops technologies and provides policy guidance for assessing, cleaning up and preventing contamination of soil, water and air. Their research is divided into programs on national policy for assessing and remediating contamination, measurement, assessment of risk to human health and the environment and clean up technologies and management options. For more information please visit their website. |
Technology Award 2015Thanks to the enthusiastic response to the call for entries for the NICOLE Technology Award, we have received a considerable number of entries. Based on the following criteria, the jury will select the top 3 entries: Interest for NICOLE ISG/SPG, potential cost saving, potential market uptake, performance and technical validation, use/implementation in the field field, technical innovation, cleanness of proposal, academic involvement and in line with the award call. The top 3 entries will be offered the opportunity to present their work in front of their peers during the NICOLE 2015 spring workshop in June, where one of those 3 will then proceed to win the Award. |
Shaping the future of NICOLEIt has been suggested that NICOLE should re-orientate itself for the future and prepare and implement this transition in over the next 2 years, evolving from a rather reactive soil oriented approach (aimed at managing contaminated sites from the past) to a more pro-active, broader and sustainable approach, where NICOLE offers companies a platform to share good practices on sustainable land/ environmental management. This transition would include NICOLE adapting it’s name. For instance, one suggestion received from one of our members was to change it to something like «Network for Industrially Co-ordinated Sustainable Land Management Europe”. Please do provide any possible suggestions to the NICOLE secretariat. Also if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Nan Su of the NICOLE Secretariat. |
ELD Stakeholder Workshop ReportThe main objective of the ELD Stakeholder workshop, organised by the European Commission, was to enable an exchange of information and practical experience gathered in the application of the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) between main stakeholders, experts and practitioners. |
Further, to evaluate the achievements and challenges of ELD implementation and to present the five REFIT evaluation criteria. To view the full report on the ELD Stakeholder Workshop, please visit the following link. |
Common Forum Naples Meeting ReportThe NICOLE network has a good relationship with Common Forum (CF), the informal network of European regulators that are involved in the preparation and national implementation of European Directives related to Contaminated land and Soil and Groundwater. In her role as NICOLECF liaison facilitator Anja Sinke attended the CF half-yearly meeting organised in Naples, attended by approximately 30 regulators from 19 different European MS and regions. To view the report from the Common Forum Meeting in Naples, please login as a member on the NICOLE website, and then visit NICOLE Members Website. The report will be listed under ‘Member Documents’ and is named ‘2014 Okt NICOLE CF Report’. |
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