The most important advances in the field of wastewater will be the subject of course on "New trends in biological wastewater treatments: water and energy", organized by University of Alcalá from 24 to 26 June within its summer program, in collaboration with IMDEA Water and sponsored by aqualia company.

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Researchers from AQUAELECTRA Project have developed a system of wastewater treatment based on an electrically conductive biofilter. This system attempts to solve some of the problems that arise during the water treatment, in which oxygen is a significant portion of operating costs, while it generates a large amount of biomass, or sewage sludge, due to the high growth yield from aerobic microorganisms.

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Bioelectrogenesis Group has been invited to participate in the third Dissemination workshop of the Nano4water cluster that will take place on 17-18 April 2013 in Dresden, Germany.

The workshop themed 'Nano-and membrane-based systems for water treatment' will be organised and housed by Fraunhofer IKTS, coordinator of the Cerawater project

Bioelectrogenesis PI Dr.Abraham Esteve-Núñez will talk about 'BACWIRE project: Bacterial wiring for energy conservation and bioremediation’ and the latest project achivements.

The University of Alicante hosted on November 26 the workshop Bacwire with the aim to demonstrate the Bacwire project's achievements, funded by the 7FP. Spanish and European companies specialized in water treatment attended the event and tested the performance of our prototype microbial fuel cell at pilot scale, capable of converting wastewater into electricity.

The Madrid Science Week is one of the most important science fair projects in Europe. This twelfth edition hosts more than 400 organizations involved with the common goal of bringing science and technology to the citizens. The Science Week is organized by the Community of Madrid, through madri+d Foundation for Knowledge. This year’s event runs from November 5-18th, 2012.

Every year since 2009 Bioelectrogenesis participates in the activities of the week. At this year's edition, attendees will deepen into the microbial ecology of electrogenic bacteria by inserting electrodes in Winogradsky columns.

The first EU-ISMET meeting will be held next September in Ghent, Belgium. From Thursday, September 27 till Friday September 28, 2012 this 2-day event will provide an interaction platform for European researchers, engineers and students working in the field of microbial electrochemical technology and at the microbe-electrode interface. The state-of-the-art of this technology will be presented by oral or poster presentations. Furthermore, leading researchers will give their view on the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Organized by the International Society for Microbial Electrochemical Technologies, EU-ISMET will be an opportunity to contact industrial partners. In addition to this meeting, a preceding 1-day training workshop will be organized at September 26th, and will focus on the training of current electrochemical techniques used to characterize biocatalyzed systems.

Bioelectrogenesis Group will attend EU-ISMET with four presentations that are representative of their research lines: physiology of electrogenic microorganisms, environmental microbial electrogenesis and electrogenic bioengineering. Bioelectrogenesis will be also present through the Bacwire stand, in order to show the progress of this 7FP project.