6th – 10th June 2021, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

First Announcement
Call for Papers
6th - 10th June 2021
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

www.micropol2021.org

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12th Micropol & Ecohazard Conference

6-10 June 2021 | Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Welcome Scientific Committee

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our great Chair: Marta Carballa (USC, Spain)
pleasure to welcome you to the 12th Micropol & Ecohazard Co-chair: Sonia Suárez (USC, Spain)
Conference which will be held from June 6 to 10, 2021 in
Pedro Alvarez (Rice Univ, USA), Teresa Alvariño (CETAQUA,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Spain), Maricor Arlos (Univ. Alberta, Canada), Kai Bester (Univ.
This conference is part of the IWA ACHSW Specialist Group Aarhus, Denmark), Germán Buitrón (UNAM Juriquilla, Mexico),
conference series, which are conceived as an international Gianluigi Buttiglieri (ICRA, Spain), Jean-Marc Choubert (IRSTEA,
forum for discussion on state of the art in scientific France), Jörg Drewes (Technical Univ. Munich, Germany),
development and technical solutions concerning emerging Santiago Esplugas (Univ. Barcelona, Spain), Despo Fatta-
pollutant emission, treatment and effects. The conference Kassinos (Univ. Cyprus), Kathrien Fenner (EAWAG,
offers an opportunity to present traditional topics in parallel Switzerland), Maria Furhacker (BOKU, Austria), Antonio J.
to more innovative themes. García (Univ. Murcia, Spain), Mariano Gómez (LABAQUA,
Spain), Urs von Gunten (EAWAG, Switzerland), Jiangyong Hu
(National Univ. Singapore), Martin Jekel (Technical Univ. Berlin,
Germany), Norbert Kreuzinger (Technical Univ. Viena, Austria),
Francisco Omil Jeppe Lund Nielsen (Univ. Aalborg, Denmark), Christa McArdell
Chair
(EAWAG, Switzerland), Maite Moreira (USC, Spain), Dominique
Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela (USC), Spain Patureau (INRA, France), Jelena Radjenovic (ICRA, Spain),
Amadeo Rodríguez (Univ. Almería, Spain), Isaac Rodríguez
(USC, Spain), Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda (Univ. Girona, Spain),
Andreas Schaeffer (Technical Univ. Aachen, Germany), Denisse
Serrano (Inst. Technol. Sonora, Mexico), Kilian Smith
Juan M. Lema (Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany), Jing Sun (Tongji
Co-Chair Univ., China), Paola Verlicchi (Univ. Ferrara, Italy), Teresa
Universidade de Santiago de
Vicent (Univ. Autónoma Barcelona, Spain), Gladys Vidal (Univ.
Compostela (USC), Spain
Concepción, Chile), Marcelo Zaiat (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil),
Kyung-Duk Zoh (Seoul National Univ., Korea)

Organizing Committee
Contact
Chair: Francisco Omil (USC, Spain)
General Information: info@micropol2021.org
Co-chair: Juan M. Lema (USC, Spain)
Scientific issues: scientific@micropol2021.org
Damià Barceló (CSIC, Spain), Amaya Franco (USC, Spain),
María Llompart (USC, Spain), Sixto Malato (Plataforma Solar Accommodation & Registration:
de Almería, Spain), Mira Petrovic (ICRA, Spain) Jesús L. Congresos Sant Yago
Romalde (USC, Spain), Rosa Arcos (Administration, USC, +34 981 553 113 / congresos@santyago.es
Spain), Iria Lema (Communication, USC, Spain)
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6-10 June 2021 | Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Core Thematic Areas Young Water Professional workshop

T1. Sources, occurrence and fate of micropollutants in real Before the opening event, on Sunday 6th afternoon, a new
environments edition of the Young Water Professional (YWP) workshop will
take place, mostly conceived as an event for those wishing to
T2. Monitoring methodology (chemical and biological)
develop their career and progress further into the water sector.
T3. Toxicity and risk assessment
T4. Strategies for source control (decentralized systems) Registration Fees
T5. Technical solutions for drinking water treatment
Early bird* After March 31st
T6. Technical solutions for wastewater and sludge
2021
treatment
IWA member 550 € 650 €
T7. Water reuse for potable and non potable applications
Non IWA member 650 € 750 €
T8. Biotransformation mechanisms (transformation
products) Low income IWA 350 € 450 €
T9. Modelling micropollutants fate in natural/engineered Low income Non IWA 450 € 550 €
environments
Students 250 € 350 €
T10. Fate of nanoparticles in natural/engineered
Gala dinner 70 € 70 €
environments
T11. Antibiotic resistance in natural/engineered Accompanying person
environments (welcome cocktail, tapas 100 € 100 €
tour, gala dinner)
T12. Occurrence, fate and effects of microplastics
*At least one author must register for the Conference during early-bird
T13. Environmental and economic assessment (LCA, LCC,
registration period to be formally included in the programme.
etc.) of micropollutant removal at pilot and full-scale
processes
T14. Regulation of hazardous substances
T15. Public acceptance and risk communication
T16. Micropollutants perspective in developing countries
Important Dates
Paper submission
Key dates
Platform presentations: Authors willing to have their
papers considered for keynote or platform presentation will 15th June 2020 Call for papers
be required to submit a full paper of 4 pages.
15th September 2020 Second call for papers
Poster presentations: Authors willing to have their papers Deadline for abstract
considered for poster presentation will be required to 31st October 2020
submission
submit a 2-page extended abstract.
22nd January 2021 Authors’ Notification
The templates can be downloaded from the website. All
presentations will be published in the Conference
Proceedings. After evaluation by the Scientific Committee, Registration
selected authors will be invited to present their works for 31st March 2021 Deadline for early registration
publication in Water Science and Technology.
Dates of the congress
Submit your abstract through the
6th - 10th June 2021 Conference
official website: micropol2021.org
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Programme
YWP workshop MICROPOL Conference, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 6 th- 10th June 2021
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 Mon, 07 Jun 2021 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 Thu, 10 Jun 2021
9:00 Plenary 2 9:00 Plenary 3 9:00
9:45 9:45 9:30 Plenary 4
Session 1.1 Session 1.2 Session 1.3 Session 2.1 Session 2.2 Session 2.3 10:15 Technical tour
10:00 Keynote 1.1 Keynote 1.2 Keynote 1.3 10:00 Keynote 2.1 Keynote 2.2. Keynote 2.3 Session 3.1 Session 3.2 Session 3.3
10:30 Oral presentations (15+5 min) 10:30 Oral presentations (15+5 min) 10:30 Keynote 3.1 Keynote 3.2 Keynote 3.3
10:50 10:50 11:00 Oral presentations (15+5 min)
11:10 11:10 11:20
11:30 Coffee break 11:30 Coffee break 11:40
12:00 Oral presentations (15+5 min) 12:00 Oral presentations (15+5 min) 12:00 Coffee break
Young Water Professional 12:20 12:20 12:30 Oral presentations (15+5 min)
(YWP) Workshop 12:40 12:40 12:50
14:00 Opening 13:00 13:00 13:10
14:05 YWP Presentations 13:20 Lunch break 13:20 Lunch break 13:30 Lunch break 13:10
Session 1.4 Session 1.5 Session 1.6 Session 2.4 Session 2.5 Session 2.6 Session 3.4 Session 3.5 Session 3.6
15:40 Coffee break & networking 15:00 15:00 15:00
16:00 Scientific writing: meet the editor 15:20 Oral presentations (15+5 min) 15:20 Oral presentations (15+5 min) 15:20 Oral presentations (15+5 min)
15:40 15:40 15:40
16:30 Leading Company Series 16:00 16:00 16:00 SUMMARY
16:20 Coffee break 16:20 Coffee break 16:20 Coffee break YWP workshop
Session 1.7 Session 1.8 Session 1.9 Session 2.7 Session 2.8 Session 2.9 Conference
17:00 Introduction to IWA and ACHSW 16:50 16:50 16:50 Awards (oral and poster young res.) 4 Plenaries
17:00 Poster short presentations (10 min) 17:00 Poster short presentations (10 min) 17:30 and Closing ceremony 9 Keynotes
17:10 17:10 96 Oral presentations
17:30 General discussion 17:20 17:20 30 Poster short presentations
17:30 17:30 2 workshops
17:40 Break 17:40 Break 1 technical tour
17:50 Workshop 17:50 Workshop Social programme
18:00 Opening ceremony 18:30 18:30 1 Welcome cocktail
18:15 Plenary 1 1 "Galician Tapas" route
20:30 20:30 1 Conference dinner
19:00 Welcome Cocktail "Galician Tapas" route through old city Conference dinner
21:00 23:00 23:00

Social programme Conference venue and facilities

The conference includes a social programme which will The opening session will be held in Pazo de Fonseca, one of the
showcase the vibrant culture of Santiago de Compostela. Just most emblematic buildings of our University, built in the
after the opening ceremony and the first Plenary Conference, sixteenth century in the Renaissance style, and located in the
a welcome cocktail will be served in the sixteenth-century heart of the historic city, near the Cathedral
cloister of Palacio de Fonseca, located beside the Cathedral.

The scientific sessions of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will

be held in the Faculty of Psychology. It has an Auditorium with
capacity for 300 people that will host the plenary presentations
On Monday, after the scientific sessions, a “Galician Tapas and one of the parallel sessions. The other two parallel sessions
tour” will be organized to enjoy Galician food and culture. On will be held in two Classrooms with 150 seats each, located quite
Tuesday we will meet at the Conference Dinner in a special close to the Auditorium. Poster sessions and coffee-breaks will
location to enjoy the traditional Galician hospitality. be held in the hall in front of the auditorium.