WATER is an international school aimed at training MSc and PhD students in Chemical Sciences and Chemical Engineering on modern topics of water treatment technologies. WATER is a school focused on modern water treatment issues. The student will be accompanied in a guided and interactive path aimed at the development of a water purification process starting from the most modern techniques of synthesis and characterization of solid materials useful as sorbents or catalysts. The different treatment technologies (e.g., adsorption, photodegradation) will be discussed, contemplating the use of alternative energy sources (e.g., ultrasound).
The school will be held in Naples, at the conference center of the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, from the 15th to the 19th of September 2025.
The registration is mandatory using a dedicated GForm (link).
All the material of the school will be available on GDrive folder (link).
Place
- Complesso Universitario M.S. Angelo, via Cintia. Building 5B, conference room (at the right of the main entrance).
- Google Maps link
Virtual activities
- Virtual classroom link
Important dates
- Registration: 15/07/2025 deadline
- School: 15-19/09/2025
Benefits of the school
- No subscription fee*
- Blended teaching modality
What will you learn
- the latest experimental and theoretical concepts on water treatment
- the latest concepts related to the development of solid materials in order to make processes more effective (greater production and energy savings)
- the implementation of non-conventional forms of energy in purification processes
- concepts and implementation of design and optimization of adsorption and photodegradation plants
What will you develop
- creative thinking in the innovation of water treatment processes
- multinational and multidisciplinary interaction and networking skills
WATER Programme
| Date | Day – Session title | Activity | Time | Lesson | Docent |
| 15/09/2025 | Monday – WATER Overture | Info | 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration | |
| Info | 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome, institutional greetings, WATER overture | Luigi Paduano, Valeria Costantino, Vincenzo Russo, Moises Canle Lopez, Stefania Grecea | ||
| 15/09/2025 | Monday – Emerging contaminants: classification and regulation | Lecture | 09:30 – 10:45 | Emerging contaminants: classification and regulation | Moises Canle Lopez (UDC) |
| Chairman: Prof. Vincenzo Russo | Break | 10:45 – 11:00 | |||
| Lecture | 11:00 – 12:30 | Analytical methods for emerging contaminants detection | Marco Trifuoggi (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||||
| Lab | 13:30 – 15:00 | Analysis of a wastewater | Marco Trifuoggi (UniNa) | ||
| Activity | 18:00 | Walking in Naples downtown: Meeting point Piazza del Gesù Nuovo | |||
| 16/09/2025 | Tuesday – Innovative techniques for wastewater treatment | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:00 | Classical processes for wastewater treatment | Moises Canle Lopez (UDC) |
| Chairman: Prof. Stefania Grecea | Lecture | 10:00 – 11:30 | Alternative processes for wastewater treatment | Moises Canle Lopez (UDC) | |
| Break | 11:30 – 11:45 | ||||
| Lecture | 11:45 – 13:00 | Alternative energy sources (hydrodynamic cavitation, ultrasound, plasma, microwaves) | Giancarlo Cravotto (UniTo) | ||
| Lunch | 13:00 – 14:00 | ||||
| Lecture | 14:00 – 15:00 | Process Intensification in wastewater treatment | Rosanna Paparo (UniNa) | ||
| Break | 15:00 – 15:15 | ||||
| 17/09/2025 | Wednesday – New trends in sorbents and catalytic materials for water treatment | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:30 | Synthesis of heterogeneous materials for water treatment | Stefania Grecea (UVA) |
| Chairman: Prof. Rosa Turco | Break | 10:30 – 10:45 | |||
| Workshop | 10:45 – 12:00 | Safe by design | Chris Slootweg (UVA) | ||
| Info | 12:00 – 12:15 | Assigning tasks for Saturday | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:15 – 13:30 | ||||
| Lecture | 13:30 – 15:00 | Characterization of heterogeneous materials for water treatment | Stefania Grecea (UVA) | ||
| Break | 15:00 – 15:15 | ||||
| Activity | 19:30 | Social dinner | |||
| 18/09/2025 | Thursday – Design of wastewater treatment apparatus | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:30 | AOP for wastewater treatment | Maryam Hmoudah (Nablus) |
| Chairman: Prof. Rosa Vitiello | Break | 10:30 – 10:45 | |||
| Lecture | 10:45 – 12:00 | Numerical methods and modeling | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:00 – 13:00 | ||||
| Workshop | 13:00 – 15:00 | How to choose the right technology for wastewater treatment | Amjad El Qanni (Nablus) | ||
| 19/09/2025 | Friday – Student Session | Activity | 09:00 – 11:30 | Flash presentations of real research | |
| Lecture | 11:30 – 12:30 | How to write a scientific article | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||||
| Activity | 13:30 – 15:30 | Journal Club: become the reviewer of a famous author | |||
| Info | 15:30 – 16:00 | Conclusions and Take Home messages | Vincenzo Russo, Moises Canle Lopez, Stefania Grecea |
Download the programme here.
Organizing institutions
University of Naples Federico II (Prof. Vincenzo Russo)
Universidade da Coruña (Prof. Moises Canle Lopez)
University of Amsterdam (Prof. Stefania Grecea)
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WATER was organized in the frame of Erasmus+ KA131 Blended Intensive Programme and SULILEIA project.
* Erasmus+ covers the expenses of the students/docents belonging to the consortium UniNa/UVA/UDC