Joint WG 1-2-3 & SWG-CEN Meeting - CONFERENCE CENTRE IN CHÂTEAU LIBLICE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 25-26 May 2009
Organizer: Dr. Frantisek PETERKA (ATG-NANOPIN, Czech Republic). Supported by Photocatalytic Industry Association of Japan (PIAJ), CEN TC386, CSNMT a UNMZ.
Location: Conference Centre in Château Liblice near Prague, Czech Republic.
Meeting program: See the Final program of the meeting or download as pdf-file. Talks, exhibitions and posters presented at the meeting are available for download as pdf files through authorized access.
Organizer: Dr. Frantisek PETERKA, ATG-NANOPIN, Czech Republic and Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing (UNMZ) – TNK Nanotechnology – Photocatalytic Technologies
Location: Meeting room of the Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing (UNMZ) (former CNI), Biskupsky dvur 5, Prague 1 (www.cni.cz). UNMZ is located in the city centre. Metro (Line B and C) and tram stations are in the vicinity. The international airport of Prague, in Czech called Letiste Ruzyne, is located about 18 km from the city centre. Participants coming by train will arrive to the Prague Main Railway Station (in Czech Hlavni nadrazi) or to Holesovice station (nadrazi Holesovice). For more details see TRAVEL DIRECTIONS, INTERACTIVE MAP OF PRAGUE and MAP OF THE LOCATION how to get there.
Meeting program: For all WGs the meeting will begin in the conference room situated in the ground floor of UNMZ (CNI) building at 9:30 a.m. After that meetings of individual WGs will follow based on instructions of WGs chairmen. Two meeting rooms are reserved for CEN TC 386 meeting.
Contact person: Prof. Riitta Keiski ( , +358 8 553 2348 and +358 40 726 3018); University of Oulu, Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, POB 4300, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland
Organizer: Arranged jontly by the COST Actions 543, 540 and P19. Planning team and responsible persons in each COST Action: COST Action 543: University of Oulu, Department of Process and Environmental Engineering (Prof. R. Keiski) and CEWIC/Thule Institute and SkyPro (Dr. Pehkonen, Dr. Teräs, M.Sc.(Eng.) Pitkäaho; practical arrangements), and Helsinki University of Technology (Prof. M. Lampinen, Dr. J.-P. Spets); COST Action 540: Tampere University of Technology (Prof. Tapio MÄNTYLÄ); COST Action P19: Lappeenranta University of Technology (Prof. M. Alatalo).
Location: University of Oulu, Linnanmaa Campus, Department of Process and Environmental Engineering and CEWIC/Thule Institute, Oulu, Finland.
Meeting program: See more details and download Preliminary timetable and Flyer of Training School. Detailed info at website http://cc.oulu.fi/~polamwww/COST-Photocatalysis.html.
Organizer: Dr. Carlos TAVARES University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
Location: University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
Meeting program: See more details here. Detailed info at conference website http://www.freewebtown.com/pptc09/
Joint 3rd SWG-CEN Meeting and 4th WG2 Meeting - PALERMO, ITALY, 9 October 2008
Organizer: prof. Claudio MINERO University of Torino, Italy
Location: Hotel La Torre, Via Piano Gallo 11 (Mondello Lido), 90151 Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Meeting program: See Report from the meeting.
Joint SWG-CEN Meeting and 3rd WG2 Meeting - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 5-6 June 2008
Organizer: Dr. Frantisek PETERKA (ATG-NANOPIN, Czech Republic) and Czech Normalization Institute (CNI) – TNK Nanotechnology – Photocatalytic Technologies
Location: Meeting room of the Czech Normalization Institute (CNI), Biskupsky dvur 5, Prague 1.
Meeting program: Meeting of Working Group for European Testing and Standardization (SWGS) was held on 5th June 2008. WG2 meeting was held next day on 6th June 2008. See the Final programme and Scientific report of the WG2 meeting. Talks presented at the WG2 meeting are available for download as pdf files through authorized access.
Joint MC and WG1-3 Meeting - DUBLIN, IRELAND, 14-15 April 2008
Organizer: Dr. John Colreavy and Dr. Suresh Pillai, CREST, Dublin, Ireland
Location: Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin, Ireland
See Minutes of the COST 540 3rd MC meeting. Talks presented at the WG1-3 meeting are available for download as pdf files through authorized access.
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 26 November 2007
Organizer:Dr. Frantisek PETERKA, ATG-NANOPIN, Czech Republic
Location: Institute of Chemical Technology (VSCHT), Building A (meeting room 4th floor), Technicka 5, Praha 6, Prague, Czech Republic. 20 min drive from the airport and 5 min walk from Dejvicka subway station. See Travel directions below and the map how to get there.
See the Final programme and Report from the meeting. Talks presented at the meeting are available for download as pdf files.
2nd WG1 Meeting - TOULOUSE, FRANCE, 12 November 2007
Organizer: Prof. Georges Zissis & Marie-Thérese Maurette, University of Toulouse, France; Prof. Lubomir Spanhel, University of Rennes, France
Location: Paul Sabatier University Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, France
Meeting program: Please check for details at this site or you can download program as pdf-file. Talks presented at the meeting are available for download as pdf files through authorized access.
2nd WG3 Meeting - FLORENCE, ITALY, 8-10 October 2007
Organizer: Prof. Leonardo Palmisano, Ingegneria Palermo, Italy
Location: Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy
See the Final programme and Scientific report from the meeting.
Joint MC and 2nd WG2 Meeting - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 18-20 April 2007
Organizer: Dr. Frantisek PETERKA, ATG-NANOPIN, Czech Republic
Location: Hotel Vltava - located in a picturesque valley on the banks of the Vltava river 11 km north of Prague city center (see the map). Hotel is easily attainable via the D8 motorway or by train from Masarykovo railway station in the center of Prague (cca 20 min.). More information about hotel at WWW: http://www.hotel-vltava.eu/en/. Hotel address: Rez u Prahy (Phone/Fax: +420 - 220940759, E-mail: ).
See the Final programme and Scientific report from the meeting. Talks presented at the meeting are available for download as pdf files through authorized access.
1st WG2 Meeting - HANNOVER, GERMANY, 13-14 November 2006
Organizer: Prof. Detlef Bahnemann, Hannover University, Germany
Location: Werkhof Nordstadt - The Ecological Business and Conference Centre, Schaufelder Strasse 11, 30167 Hannover, Germany (Phone: +49 (0511) 71 50 22, Fax: +49 (0511) 71 33 61, E-mail:
, WWW: http://www.werkhof-nordstadt.de).
See the Final programme and Scientific report from the meeting. Talks presented at the meeting are available for download as pdf files through authorized access.
1st WG3 Meeting - EPFL LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, 26-27 October 2006
Organizer: Prof. John Kiwi, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
See the Final programme and Scientific report from the meeting. Talks presented at the meeting are available for download as Power point files through authorized access.
Joint 1st WG1 meeting and Seminar - ECRIN PARIS, FRANCE, 15-16 June 2006
Organizers: Prof. Lubomir Spanhel (University of Rennes 1, France); N. Pehuet (ECRIN, Paris, France).
See the Final programme and Scientific report from the meeting. You can download poster of the meeting and programme of presentations from academy and industry also in pdf form.
Inaugural meeting of the Action - BRUSEL, BELGIUM, 23 January 2006
The Action has been launched. Fourteen countries have signed the Memorandum of Understanding and nominated their representatives in the Management Committee of the Action. The chair, vice-chair and three working group leaders were appointed by the Management Committee.
