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Courses upgraded by the project - Intensive courses - Lectures
Date Details On-line availability
April 9-13, 2005
Intensive course (mini-course):
"Risk Assessment"
(code MC01)
Teacher:
Prof. Dr. Maria Fürhacker, the Department for Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU; Vienna, Austria).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
A course dedicated to the risk assessment for environment and human health, considering the several types of pollutants and their ecological and toxicological characteristics and impact. More details here.
(ppt, pdf)
April 9-13, 2005 Intensive course (mini-course):
"Life Cycle Assessment"
(code MC02)
Teacher:
Dr. Reinout Heijungs, Department of Industrial Ecology Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML; Leiden University, The Netherlands).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
A new approach to industrial production and sustainable development, describing the entire life of products and their destiny in the environment using powerful computer tools. More details here.
(ppt, pdf)
February 14-18, 2006 Intensive course (mini-course):
"Life Cycle Thinking" (code MC03)
Teacher:
Prof. Udo de Haes, Department of Industrial Ecology Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML; Leiden University, The Netherlands).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
A follow-up of MC02.
No
February 14-18, 2006 Intensive course (mini-course):
"Flow Analysis " (code MC04)
Teacher:
Prof. A.A.H. Elshkaki, Department of Industrial Ecology Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML; Leiden University, The Netherlands).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
Use of a specific software tool for lifde cycle analysis.
No
February 23-24, 2007 Intensive course (mini-course):
"The Use of Dimethylcarbonate as a Clean Reagent
" (code MC05)
Teacher:
Prof. Pietro Tundo, Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment and Department of Environmental Sciences "Ca' Foscari" University (Venice, Italy).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is a clean reagent potentially usable in chemcial industry in order to substitute classical toxic compounds. Here is a compete overview of the know-how in the reactions of DMC.
(ppt)
February 23-24, 2007

Intensive course (mini-course):
"One-Pot Syntesis of Fine Chemicals Promoted by Nitroalkanes
" (code MC06)
Teacher:
Prof. Roberto Ballini, Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment and Camerino University (Camerino, Italy).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
The present mini-course intends to give to the students the basic knowledge in order to upgrade their curriculum or to start a career in the field of environmental Chemistry. Obviously in order to start a job/research activity in this field this mini-course is far from being enough and each participant needs to study relevant topics in depth on his/her own. More details here.

(ppt)
February 23-24, 2007 Intensive course (mini-course):
"Groundwater Memories of the Distant Past and Key to the Future (Climate change)
" (code MC07)
Teacher:
Prof. Giovanni Maria Zuppi, Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment and Department of Environmental Sciences "Ca' Foscari" University (Venice, Italy).
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
It has long been known that natural climate variability and climate change both affect groundwater resources. Today, it is widely accepted that recent warming is largely a product of enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere derived from post-industrial combustion of fossil fuels and biomass.
( zipped pdf)
February 23-24, 2007

Intensive course (mini-course):
"Environmental Microbiology
" (code MC08)
Teacher:
Dott. Fulvio Zecchini, Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment.
Target:
Centre of excellence staff, graduate students (project Activity 2/1)
Brief description:
The present mini-course intends to give to the students the basic knowledge in order to upgrade their curriculum or to start a career in the field of environmental microbiology. Obviously in order to start a job/research activity in this field this mini-course is far from being enough and each participant needs to study relevant topics in depth on his/her own. More details here.

(ppt)
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