WATER RESEARCH and INNOVATIONS in DIGITAL ERA VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 31 March - 2 April 2021

12th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference

Call for Papers

WATER RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONS IN DIGITAL ERA VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 31 March - 2 April 2021 http://iwa-ywp.eu/

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Latvia University of Life Sciences Ministry of Agriculture Republic of

and Technologies Latvia Riga Technical Ministry of Environmental Institute for Environmetal Solutions University Protection and Regional Development Republic of Latvia

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Riga Technical University Health and Environment Republic of Latvia Water Research Laboratory Latvian Environment, Geology and

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Main topics of the conference Procedure for Submission

 Innovations in water/wastewater treatment Several types of participation will be possible:  Innovative sampling and monitoring strategies  Overcoming inappropriate influent C:N:P ratios 1. PowerPoint presentation (recorded in through cost-effective wastewater treatment technol- advance) ogies 2. Without presentation (audience)  Adaptation specialties of technologies successfully 3. Publishing of papers without presence at the applied in other regions conference

 Specialties of industrial wastewater treatment Extended abstracts of papers should be written in  Pharmaceutical wastewater treatment English, and prepared according to the template,  Mathematical modeling, simulation studies please find on our websitehttp://iwa -ywp.eu/  Issues and challenges in water loss management  Energy efficiency Extended abstracts should be submitted using our  Impacts of climate change website http://iwa-ywp.eu/ : Abstracts Submission  Lake ecosystems st  Flood hazard and risk Submissions are welcome from 1 August 2020 and must be received before 1st January 2021.

Important Information On the basis of the submitted extended abstracts, a

review will be undertaken to select the papers for Participants oral presentation. Notification of acceptance will be Young Water Professionals (< 35 years old) sent before 15th January 2021.

Duration of the conference All selected extended abstracts will be published in 31 March 2021- Workshops the proceedings with an ISBN (which allows you to gain points). 1 & 2 April 2021 - Scientific Sessions If your extended abstract was selected you can also Location prepare an 8-page full paper which will be included Virtual Conference to the conference proceedings and send to IWA

Registration fee publishing office. The full paper must be submitted using website http://iwa-ywp.eu/ : Full Papers Participants from low-income countries: Submission

IWA members - 100 Euro Non IWA members - 120 Euro For the guidelines on formatting the abstracts and the full papers and other information about this Participants from high-income countries: conference refer to our website http://iwa-ywp.eu/ IWA members - 150 Euro Non IWA members - 200 Euro Deadline for submission of full manuscripts is st 1 February 2021. Please find the file with a list of- high and low-income countries on our website. Registration fee includes At least one author of each selected paper must register. participation in the conference sessions, conference proceedings. For more info please see our website. The papers will be additionally reviewed by IWA For all questions: [email protected] and published in the journals: Water Science and Technology and Water Science and Technology: Key Dates Water Supply, and other.

th 10 December 2020 - Registration opens All participants will receive certificates.

1st January 2021 - Deadline of abstracts submission For all questions: [email protected]

th 15 January 2021 - Notification of acceptance

1st February 2021 - Deadline of full papers submission

1st March 2021 - Registration closes

st YOUNG WATER PROFESSIONALS WATER YOUNG 1 March 2021 - Registration closes Organising Team Programme Team

Chair: Dr. Feierabend M. (IWA YWP, Germany) Chair: Prof. Juhna T. (Riga Technical University, Latvia)

Co-Chair: Dr. Dejus S. (Riga Technical University, Latvia) Co-Chair: Prof. Jobbágy A. (Budapest University of Technology &

Team members: Economic, Hungary)

Dr. Lavrnić S. (University of Bologna, Italy/Serbia) Team members: Ibrahimllari A. (IWA YWP Program, Albania) Prof. Wanner J. (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Odud L. (Rivne Regional Water Supply Company, Ukraine) Czech Republic) Dr. Schilling K. (IAWD – Danube Water Program, Austria) Mr. Förster G. (Metito China Holdings, China) Dalecka B. (Riga Technical Univesity/KTH, Latvia/Sweden) Dr. Vasyukova E. (WTE, Germany) Sebestyén É. (UTB Envirotec Ltd., Hungary) Prof. Makinia J. (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Dr. Petrovic M. (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Dr. Wójtowicz P. (Savonia University of Applied Science, Finland) Šabić Runjavec M. (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Dr. Szlachta M. (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Filipic A. (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) Poland) Ciepliński J. (Cracow University of Technology, Poland) Dr. Bakos V. (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Dr. Nuić I. (University of Split, Faculty of Chemistry and Hungary) Technology, Croatia) Dr. Novytska O. (National University of Water and Environmental Ikizoglu Z. R. (Tübitak Marmara Research Center, Turkey) Engineering, Ukraine) Lavrinovics A. (Riga Technical University/Institute for Environ- Dr. Rudic Z. (Institute for the Development of Water Resources metal Solutions, Latvia) "Jaroslav Cerni", Serbia) Zemite M. (Riga Technical Univesity, Latvia) Dr. Çelebi A. (Sakarya University, Turkey) Zakhar R. (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) Dr. Drewnowski J. (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Intriago J.C. (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dr. Langone M. (University of Trento, Italy) Kaljunen J. (Aalto University Water Laboratory, Finland) Dr. Srb M. (Pražské vodovody a kanalizace, a.s., Czech Republic) Denisova V. (Riga Technical Univesity, Latvia) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mezule L. (Riga Technical University, Latvia)Assoc. Alekseev D. (Organising Partner, Russia) Prof. Dr. Tihomirova K. (Riga Technical University, Latvia)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rubulis J. (Riga Technical University, Latvia)