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The Second International Environmental Best Practices
(EBP-II) Conference and The American Grant Funding
in Environmental Science (AGFES)
Educational Workshop
14-18 September 2009, Kraków, Poland
The Second International Environmental Best Practices (EBP-II) Conference was held in Krakow, Poland, from
14 to 18 September, 2009. The symposium was chaired by Maciej Góra and Miroslaw Luczynski and was
hosted by the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
EBP-II Conference attracted over 100 participants from scientific and industrial institutions of 24 countries.
Symposium topics covered a broad spectrum of environmental issues and solutions to the challenges facing
the world today. Eight plenary lectures, 20 oral contributions and 87 posters were presented over the five days
of the conference and were grouped thus:
• Environmental Remediation,
• Wastewater Treatment,
• Solid Waste Management,
• Alternative Energy Sources,
• Environmental Toxicology,
• Interface Phenomena in Environmental Sciences,
• Resource and Ecosystem Management.
The EBP-II Conference was organized in collaboration with Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A.; the
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland; Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, the Polish
Academy of Sciences; and the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, Germany. The conference
successfully brought together researchers from academic, governmental, and industrial institutions to discuss
recent developments in the field of environmental science.
The AGFES Workshop was moderated by Delia Gallinaro, MPA (Sam Huston State University, Texas) and
constituted an integral part of the meeting, The workshop provided brief but very valuable information on the
funding of research and educational activities as well as on writing grant proposals, their submission,
management and the dissemination of results.
One of the highlights of the meeting was a discussion about the problems of the combined toxicological impacts
of a variety of xenobiotics on water organisms and on the methods used to determine and quantify these impacts.
The contributions to EBP-II will be published in the Environmental Biotechnology journal (http://
www.environmentalbiotechnology.pl/).
The conference was sponsored and supported by: (1) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
(IUPAC); (2) Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education; (3) City of Krakow; and (4) Pro Chemia Foundation.

The details of the conference program, a list of speakers and lecture titles are available on the conference
website: http://www.chemia.uj.edu.pl/ebp.html.
EBP-II was a continuation of the First International Environmental Best Practices (EBP-I) Conference,
which was held in Olsztyn, Poland, in August 2006. The conference continues to build a platform for the
exchange of current results and ideas between researchers working in different areas of environmental
science. The Third International Environmental Best Practices Conference will be held in 2011 at the
University of Applied Sciences, Offenburg, Germany.
Maciej Gora
Department of Organic Chemistry
Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland
mgora@chemia.uj.edu.pl
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A – plenary lecture; B – coffee break; C – “a sample” of audience; D - present (right, Maciej Gora, EBP-II, Krakow
2009) and future (left, Torsten Schneider, EBP-III, Offenburg 2011) EBP organizers.
Selection of pictures: Miroslaw Luczynski
Department of Environmental Biotechnology
University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
mirekl@uwm.edu.pl