News
Publication in the “Journal of Hazardous Materials” on antibiotic resistance in different rivers
In a recent study, we provide for the first time fundamental findings on the spread of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in four river systems in Lower...[more]
EGU General Assembly 2025 - Invitation for Abstract Submission
Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit your abstracts to the following EGU General Assembly 2025 session. Please note that the...[more]
Anna Pölz receives Dieberger-Skalicky Scholarship
Anna Pölz is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management and the Research Center Water & Health...[more]
ICC Water & Health at the World Water Congress in Toronto, Canada
The IWA World Water Congress is the key global event of the water sector, organised every two years. This year, the ICC Water & Health was...[more]
Great success of the ICC Water & Health at the 38th annual conference of the ÖGHMP
The 38th annual conference of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP) took place in Salzburg from May 13-16....[more]
Successful Habilitation by Julia Derx!
Congratulations to our steering committee member Julia Derx for successfully defending her thesis "Understanding the impact of global changes and...[more]
PFAS: "Eternal chemicals" in the environment and our bodies
On 24 April (18:00 - 19:30), Thomas Oudega from the research group of Julia Derx and Alfred Paul Blaschke will give a lecture on per- and...[more]
Launch of the new ARISE project - Antibiotic resistance surveillance in wastewater
The kick-off event for the ARISE project - "Evaluation of innovative molecular analysis methods and approaches for surveillance of antibiotic...[more]
The first mapping of antibiotic resistance genes along the entire Danube River
The global spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment poses a growing threat to public health. Large rivers are of particular importance, as...[more]
One Water 2024
Water and health - News and interesting facts from Technopol Krems and Lower Austria[more]
Global survey on genetic microbiological testing in the water sector
The ICC Water & Health, together with the IWA Health-Related Water Microbiology Specialist Group and the Global Water Pathogens Project, is...[more]
Andreas Farnleitner honored with the Danubius Award
The "Danubius Award 2023" was awarded to Univ.-Prof. PD Dr. Andreas H. Farnleitner on October 19 in Timișoara/Romania.[more]
Julia Derx interviewed on "Spontan Gefragt"
Julia Derx was a guest on the program "Spontan Gefragt" hosted by Markus Hengstschläger, in which she was interviewed about the occurrence of the...[more]
"Future Danube"- Event Land NÖ and ICC Water & Health
At a joint event on September 04, 2023, the first results of the successful cooperation of the project partners Department WA2, Province of Lower...[more]
Systematic review just published – have genetic methods revolutionised our field?
A large author team from the ICC Water & Health, together with colleagues from Universitat de Barcelona, the USEPA, Michigan State University and...[more]
ICC Water & Health meetings in June
In June 2023, there were two scientific symposia organized by ICC Water & Health. In Darwin, Australia, the 21st HRWM "Health-Related Water...[more]
New Project „SEWAT“ has started in April
“SEWAT - Real-time parameters for microbiological and chemo-physical water quality monitoring in mobile drinking water treatment systems” is a...[more]
Sophia Steinbacher new president of the Young Water Professionals
Our PhD student Sophia Steinbacher from the Department of Water Quality and Health at KL Krems was elected as the new president of the Young Water...[more]
44th IAD Conference at KL Krems
The 44th Conference of the "International Association for Danube Research" (IAD), held at KL Krems from February 6 - 9, was a great success. A total...[more]
Julia Derx and Margaret Stevenson organize session at EGU General Assembly 2023
As every year, the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place in Vienna in 2023.[more]
Carmen Rehm awarded with Lower Austrian Impact Award for PhD students!
On 17.11.2022, the Lower Austrian Society for Research Promotion (GFF) awarded the Impact Award to PhD students for the first time. The award was...[more]
Vienna Water training event as part of the KL Academy
Andreas Farnleitner and Karen Zuser from ICC Water & Health are lecturers at Vienna Water's new training event "Water quality in water supply" as...[more]
Claudia Kolm awarded Lower Austrian Science Prize
The Lower Austrian Science Future Prize 2022 was awarded to our KL Post-Doc Claudia Kolm at the Science Gala in Grafenegg Castle on 18 October.[more]
Wissenschaft im Wirtshaus (Science in the pub)
The ICC Water & Health informed the interested public in a relaxed atmosphere about various aspects of water quality and health. From 19.9. to...[more]
44th IAD Conference 2023
ICC Water & Health is Co-organizer of the 44th IAD Conference[more]
Think-MINT!
Our ICC doctoral student Sophia Steinbacher supports the Think-MINT campaign to get more girls interested in science, technology, engineering and...[more]
New FWF project approved
At the last FWF Board meeting at the end of June, Julia Derx and Rita Linke were awarded a new project entitled " BACTO-TRANS: Upscaling bacterial...[more]
37th Annual Meeting of the ÖGHMP
Fantastic success of our ICC Water & Health at the 37th Annual Meeting of the ÖGHMP![more]
Food without Poison - Global Challenges and Sustainable Solutions
Our ICC researcher Claudia Kolm will give a short lecture on the topic of faecal pollution.[more]
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