Present Status

 
11.07.2003 During 2003, the following meetings and workshops are planned: (for further information, please contact jean-paul.schwitzguebel@epfl.ch)
01.07.2002 Meetings took place at the following dates and places:
  • MC meeting, 25-27.04.2002 (Bordeaux, FR): Report
  • WG2 Workshop, "Risk assessment and sustainable land management using plants in trace element contaminated soils", 25-27.04.2002 (Bordeaux, FR): Report and Abstracts
  • InterCOST Workshop (WG1+WG4+COST Action 831, WG1) "Soil-microbe-root interactions: maximising phytoremediation/bioremediation" 23-25.05.2002 Grainau, DE): Report and Abstracts
06.11.2001 Meetings took place at the following dates and places:
  • WG1+WG3, 27-29.09.2001, Potential for increasing plant performance in the phytoremediation of organic pollutants (Grenoble, FR): Report and Abstracts
  • WG3, 30.11-1.12.2001, Genomics, proteomics and other -omics approaches within COST Action 837 (Montpellier, FR): Report and Abstracts
03.07.2001 Meetings took place at the following dates and places:
  • WG2: 05-07.04.2001: Phytoremediation of trace elements in contaminated soils and waters (with special emphasis on Zn, Cd, Pb and As) (Madrid, ES): Report and Abstracts
  • WG4: 18-19.05.2001: Wastewater treatment and plants as a "green liver": The European approach, experience and trends (Larnaca, Cyprus): Report and Abstracts
  • MC: 17-18.05.2001: 4th MC (Larnaca, Cyprus): Report
13.11.2000 Meetings took place at the following dates and places:
  • WG1: 19-21.10.2000: Plant enzyme in bioremediation of organic xenobiotics - current opinions and perspectives (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany): Report
  • WG3: 15-16.12.2000: Hopes and limits of metabolic engineering in phytoremediation: (Milano, IT): Report and Abstracts
  • Inter-COST Workshop on bioremediation (with COST Actions 831 and 838) : 15-18.11.2000, Sorrento (Italy): Report and Abstracts
22.05.2000 The first scientific workshop of COST Action 837 has been held from the 6th to the 8th of April 2000: Phytoremediation 2000: State of the art in Europe: (Hersonissos, GR): Report and access to abstracts

25.01.2000

 Different Working Group meetings have been held recently :
  • 18-20. 11. 1999: Plant species useful for phytoremediation and wastewater treatment (Lisbon, PT): Report and Abstracts
  • 09-11. 12. 1999: Plant enzymes involved in the metabolism of organic pollutants (Geneva, CH): Report and Abstracts
  • 13-15. 01. 2000: Remediation of toxic metals by phytoextraction and phytostabilization - What is needed to make it work (Parma, IT): Report and Abstracts

04.05.1999

The first Management Committee of COST Action 837 was held in Brussels on September 23rd 1998. The planning meetings of the different Working Groups were held at the following places and dates:

Working Group 1: Planning meeting (Chatham, UK): Report and Abstracts
Working Group 2: Planning meeting (Lausanne, CH): Report and Abstracts
Working Group 3: Planning meeting: (Strasbourg, FR): Report and Abstracts
Working Group 4: Planning meeting (Warsaw, PL): Report and Abstracts

The strategies for the future, the planning of the next steps of COST Action 837, the organization of the next Scientific Workshops and Working Group meetings will be discussed and decided during the next Management Committee meeting, to be held in Prague (CZ) on May 28/29th 1999.

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Last update on 14. 07. 2003