COST Action 636: 2nd meeting of WG 3 “Impact assessment”

Meeting for COST Action 636:

Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: WG 3: Impact Assessment
June 20th– 21st2006 in Duisburg (Germany)

Invitation and Agenda

Duisburg, April 24th, 2006

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the 2ndmeeting of WG 3“Impact Assessment” of the COST Action 636 “Xenobiotics in the Urban Cycle”.

The meeting will take place from June 20th to June 21st2006 in Duisburg (Germany) and will be organized by the Institute of Energy and Environmental Process Engineering, Department of Water Technology, University Duisburg-Essen.The main topic of this meeting is

Impact thresholds in the environment & humans

including the following topics:

  • Methods from molecular level  whole organisms  ecosystem
  • Which methods exist? state-of-the-art!
  • What do the available methods tell us?
  • Do we really use the appropriate methods to evaluate the impacts we are interested in?
  • Do we have the methods for this?
  • Do we have the relevant expertises represented in WG3?
  • Going beyond what we take for granted ... ways of evaluating results (e.g. statistical significance)
  • Link to WFD?

In the meeting Milda Zita Voslienewill present an overview of biotests for impact assessment in Europe and North America, Sureyya Mericwill present an overview of the state of the art for complex mixture assessment and Verena Höckelewill give us some informations about impact assessment relation to WFD.

Time schedule for the WG 3 meetingin June 20th– 21st2006 in Duisburg

First Day (June 20th)

Time / Programme / Responsible
10:30 – 10:45 / Welcome, summary of the meeting in Kopenhagen (06.-08.09.05) and introduction to the programm of the present meeting / Ralph Hobby;
Anders Baun
10:45 – 11:00 / Presentation of partipicants of the meeting / WG 3
11:00 – 11:30 / Overview of biotests for impact assessment in Europe and North America / Milda Zita Vosliene
11:30 – 13:00 / Discussion of Biotests for impact assessment with regards to the topics mentioned above / WG 3
13:00 – 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 / State of the art for complex mixture assessment / Sureyya Meric
14:30 – 16:00 / Discussion of complex mixture assessment with regard to the topics mentioned above / WG 3
16:00 – 16:30 / Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 / Information about impact assessment in relation to WFD / Verena Höckele
17:00 – 18:00 / Discussion of impact assessment in relation to WFD / WG 3
18:00 – 18:15 / Summary of the first day / Ralph Hobby

Second Day (21st June)

Time / Programme / Responsible
9:00 – 10:30 / Which compounds we have to assess? Agreement of the most important compounds / groups / WG 3
10:30 – 11:00 / Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 / Do we really use the appropriate methods to evaluate the impacts of the most important compounds we are interested in? / WG 3
13:00 – 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 / Do we have the right methods for impact assessment or do we need new methods? / WG 3
16:00 – 16:30 / Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 / Do we have the relevant expertises represented in WG3? / WG 3
17:00 – 19:00 / Conclusions of the discussions, planning the next steps, preparation of the meeting in Vienna. Do we need common projects? / WG 3
19:00 – 19:15 / Summary of the meeting / Ralph Hobby,
Anders Baun

The coordinator of the COST 636 Action informed us that in total only 8 personscan be reimbursed for their travel to Duisburg. Therefore we kindly ask you to respond to our invitation promptly (untilMay 05th, 2006)by filling the enclosed registration form. Please let us also know if you need COST reimbursement for the participation at Duisburg WG 3COST meeting or you could provide your own funds.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you need any further information.

We are looking forward to see you in Duisburg!

Best regards,

Ralph Hobby and Anders Baun

Chair and co-chair for WG 3 “Impact Assessment” of Cost Action 636

Travel information:

The meeting will be organized by the Institute of Energy and EnvironmentallProcess Engineering, Department of Water Technology ( which is an institute of the University Duisburg-Essen ( The institute is located in Duisburg-Neudorf, 10 minutes walking distance of the main station. Duisburg ( is located not so far from Düsseldorf. The distance between Düsseldorf airport and Duisburg main station is about 10 minutes by train.There are a lot of hotels with different prices (from 37 € in the Etap Hotel up to 121 € and more in the Steigenberger Hotel).

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