ATHENS – Environmental Technology

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

17 - 21 November 2025

The Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering (DWTEE) and the Department of Environmental Chemistry regularly provides an Advanced Technology Higher Education Network (ATHENS) course called Environmental Technology. This course is organized by the Czech Technical University in Prague.

The course takes place every autumn and is one week long. You can apply for participation via  official ATHENS web page. For more information you can contact education program coordinator Pavla Šmejkalová.

Information for Participants

The main goals of the course are to

• summarize basic principles of environmental technology in water and wastewater treatment, water and soil contamination removal and solid waste treatment
• study the fundamentals of biochemical transformations of pollutants
• discuss economical, energetical and social aspects of environmental protection
• analyse the main problems of environmental protection in the Czech Republic and EU
• present selected technological methods used in environmental protection

Lectures

• Soil and Groundwater Contamination in the Czech Republic (History, Most Polluted Sites, Development of Technological Tools) 
• Life Cycle Assessment - Environmental Assessment of Products
• Drinking Water Treatment and Quality
• Biological Wastewater Treatment as a Part of Environmental Protection in the Czech Republic   
• Energy Production from Wastewaters and Biowastes by Anaerobic Digestion                            

Case studies

• Solid Waste Treatment
• Microbiology and Hydrobiology in Water Technology
• Drinking Water Treatment with Activated Carbon      

Excursion

• Old Wastewater Treatment Plant - national historic landmark

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