Cross-disciplinary Biosolutions Seminar Series: Cleaning soil and water through bioremediation - Handle with care?

The seminar is open to all interested, including researchers, industry officials, and students.

Biosolutions is a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to solve complex problems and promote sustainable and efficient agriculture, industrial, food, and ingredient productions by leveraging biological processes or bio-based components. At the Green Solution Centre, we have established a collaboration across several disciplines where we focus on various scientific perspectives for biosolutions. In addition to natural science and technological perspectives, we will integrate legal, socio-economic, and humanistic perspectives in a series of seminars.

Pollution remains a significant problem today, and it is no longer limited to single, familiar substances. Today’s environmental challenges increasingly involve complex chemical mixtures, often with unknown or unpredictable effects. To meet these challenges, we need solutions that are adaptable to different environments and resilient over time.

One such solution is bioremediation - a method that uses living organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and plants to remove or transform contaminants. These biological tools offer promising methods for cleaning up pollutants in soil and water. Recent research is advancing the field by designing or selecting microorganisms and plants that are particularly effective, using natural processes like enzyme activity and root exudates to accelerate degradation.

At this seminar, we ask key questions that cut across science, policy, and society:

• What is bioremediation, and how does it work?
• Can we use bioremediation to remove PFAS from our nature?
• What are the historical perspectives for using bioremediation?
• What are the existing regulatory frames for bioremediation?

Join us for a series of short talks followed by a debate, as we explore the potential and limitations of bioremediation.

Program

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When you participate in this event, your time will be used as co-financing for the project Innovationkraft, which is funded by the Uddannelses- og Forskningsstyrelsen at a standard rate. Read more about the project.