ZeroPM’s Third International Workshop!
The European research project ZeroPM: Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile substances successfully organized its third international workshop with the theme: Removal through Technical Solutions on the 7th-8th of October, 2025 in Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.
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Workshop Presentations (follow the links to pdf of presentations)
09:30 ZeroPM welcome and setting the scene
Hans Peter Arp – Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Sarah Hale – German Water Centre, (DVGW-TZW), Marcel Riegel – German Water Centre (DVGW-TZW)
10:00 Micropollutants, antimicrobial resistance, and the EU’s new framework on wastewater treatment
and reuse – Is policy outpacing or lagging behind scientific knowledge?
Despo Fatta-Kassinos – University of Cyprus
10:40 Coffee break
State of the art: PFAS analysis
11:20 Navigating PFAS chemistry in complicated samples: Analysis in the Modern Laboratory and Future Prospects.
Alexandros Asimakopoulos – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
11:40 One fits all? – A TOP-Assay fitness-check for comprehensive PFAS determination
Frank Thomas Lange – German Water Centre (DVGW-TZW)
12:00 Passive sampling for PFAS: Status and applications
Ian Allan – Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
12:20 Lunch
State of the art: PFAS and sludge management
13:30 Sludge management: the wastewater sector’s contribution to a circular economy
Gari Villa-Landa – European Federation of National Associations of Water Services (Eureau)
13:50 PFAS in sewage sludge: occurrence, removal technologies and threats for the environment
Athanasios Stasinakis – The University of the Aegean
The future of sludge management
14:10 Enabling a PFAS free circular economy for sludge through source control and pyrolysis
Hans Peter Arp – Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
14:20 PFASs in Swiss Sewage Sludge: Examining Mass Flows and Implications of the National Policy to Incinerate Sludge
Steven Chow – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG)
14:30 The Biosolids Observatory : an efficient tool to improve knowledge on Biosolids composition
Hubert Brunet – European Federation for Agricultural Recycling (EFAR)
14:40 Toxic sludge is good for you
Eurydice Bersi – Reporters United and the Forever Pollution Project
Day 2
09:00 Regulating Persistent and Mobile substances in Europe: Lessons learned from case processing under CLP, science-policy synergies and stakeholders’ engagement
Konstantinos Prevedouros – European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
09:25 Policy measures for the remediation of PM-substances: a never-ending story or the final act?
André Bannink – Association of River Water Companies (RIWA)
State of the art water treatment methods
09:55 ZeroPM approaches for water treatment: AC, IEX, electrosorption and electrochemical degradation
Marcel Riegel and Heico Schell – German Water Centre (DVGW-TZW)
10:15 Large scale study: thermal reactivation of PFAS contaminated granular activated carbon originating from drinking water production
Philipp Droste – Jacobi Group
10:35 Remediation of PFAS contaminated soil-groundwater continuum
Stéfan Colombano – French Geological Survey (BRGM)
10:55 From Detection to Concentration and Degradation: SCENARIOS Technologies for PFAS-Free Water
Francesco Dondero – University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro (UPO)
11:55 Challenges of persistent and mobile substances in water supply
Aki Sebastian Ruhl – German Environment Agency (UBA)
12:05 Pollution prevention as a pre-requisite for circular water management
Sara Johansson – European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
12:15 Four year monitoring of PFAS levels in Thessaloniki water resources and drinking water
Nikoletta Xanthopolou – Thessaloniki Water and Sewerage Company
12:25 Assessing the sustainability of water treatment systems
Greg Peters – Chalmers University of Technology