Master in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy - URV

20/12/2019

We stop classes for winter holidays until Tuesday 7th January. We wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2020!!

05/12/2019

EU agrees on minimum requirements for water reuse in agriculture. The provisional agreement must now be formally approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. After approval, the Regulation will be published in the Official Journal of the EU and will enter into force 20 days later.

The new rules, proposed by the European Commission in May 2018, will set out harmonised minimum water quality requirements for the safe reuse of treated...

28/11/2019

Dow Tarragona va entregar aquest dimarts els premis Solutionism Award & Sustainability Awards a les seves instal·lacions. Els guardons s'enmarquen en un programa de col·laboració entre l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Química (ETSEQ) de la Universitat Rovira i V...

28/11/2019

26/11/2019

Today has taken place in the facilities of DOW Tarragona, the ceremony of the 7th edition of the "DOW Sustainability Award", an initiative undertaken by DOW Chemical Ibérica and the School of Chemical Engineering (ETSEQ), aimed at students of the Master in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy (MEESE). The winning team has presented a summary of the awarded project in front of several representatives of DOW company and the URV. We deeply thank DOW for the organization of the event and their continued collaboration with the master. Congratulations, Hammam, Francesc, Ajay, David and Jordi!!

25/11/2019

Some days ago the students of the master visited Ecoparc2, a municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant located close to Barcelona, with a capacity to treat 160.000 t/y of Mixed Waste (grey container), 100.000 t/y of organic waste (brown container) and 27.000 of packging Waste (yellow container). It was a very interesting visit within the subject "Waste Management and Valorization"

21/11/2019

5 Global trends shaping our climate future

Here's how the next 20 years are shaping up in terms of energy, and what it means for global warming.

19/11/2019

Today is the World Toilet Day, drawing attention to those people without access to sanitation and still practicing open defecation

The purpose of World Toilet Day, celebrated on 19th November every year, is inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. With the theme 'Lea...

18/11/2019

European Week for Waste Reduction, 16th to 24th November. Check out actions organized!

We have the final tally for the EWWR 2019 and it's 16,570 actions to be carried out in 30 countries thanks to the efforts of 40 coordinators! We at the EWWR Secretariat can't wait to hear all about them and to see your social media posts, images and videos under , , , and, if you want to take part in our photo contest, .Learn more about this year's campaign from our press release https://bit.ly/35aJuDv and press file https://bit.ly/32O9JOp. And check out our database at https://www.ewwr.eu/actions to see which actions are being organised near you so you can join in! Hurry up, the week starts tomorrow and is over in, well, one week!

18/11/2019

The Groundwater Replenishment System in the Orange County, the world's largest water reuse project, is in it final stages

The final expansion of the Groundwater Replenishment System was celebrated in Orange County yesterday. The project poses high hopes for the future of California’s water systems.

11/11/2019

Water footprint of the EU energy sector

Not all energy sources are equal. There are vast differences in the amount of water required to produce the same amounts of energy from different source...