22nd Summer School - GMP training – Monitoring and Analyses of Chemicals
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15 – 19 June 2026
- RECETOX, Bohunice campus
GMP training – Monitoring and Analyses of Chemicals
The first module of the Summer School will take place from 15 to 18 June 2026. It will focus on hands-on laboratory training and targeted lectures covering the monitoring and analysis of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), including sample collection, laboratory analysis, and data interpretation. The programme is closely linked to international efforts under the Stockholm Convention, particularly the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP). It aims to strengthen capacities for generating high-quality, comparable data that support long-term environmental assessments and policy-making.
Scope and objectives of the training:
This summer school addresses the need to strengthen expert capacity and introduce existing, but also new (young/junior researchers or specialists) generation to the topic of POPs monitoring, chemical analyses, data management and data interpretation and to give them a guided tour to modern available tools and approaches (globally or in the EU) in data management and data interpretation.
Objectives:
The RECETOX and other invited experts will conduct the training, which will elaborate on the following:
- to provide information on arrangements for POPs monitoring under the Stockholm Convention
- sharing knowledge on POPs monitoring arrangements and challenges in individual countries
- hands on for passive sampling of air
- existing monitoring networks and potential synergies between them
- hands-on training in preparation and chemical analyses of the air samples
- visit to the RECETOX Trace analytical laboratories and biobank facility
- understanding of FAIR data concepts and principles and terminology
- data management necessities and current approaches to make data FAIR
- challenges in data interpretation
- linking national reporting under the Stockholm Convention, research activities and infrastructures available for support of project countries - to join or to follow
Target audience:
This regional training is intended for sharing experience among all seven project countries for GEF 10785 and 10924 and enhance expert capacities in each country by involving monitoring specialists but also a young generation and open to experts from other countries. Priority should be given to experts or officers managing environmental/human exposure data, researchers/students producing experimental data relating to chemical exposure, hazard and risk assessment, laboratory staff involved in processing collected samples and performing chemical analyses in relevant institutions or persons involved in extracting and using environmental/human data from existing databases for evaluating trends, exposure, and chemical risk assessment.
Number of participants and registration deadlines:
For each country in person participation is envisaged for up to 3 national experts/representatives. Due to limitation for hands-on laboratory work maximum total amount of participants is limited to 20 persons.
Task before the training:
Each participating country is expected to fill a country questionnaire (update on GMP POPs monitoring activity). The questionnaire will be sent to registered participants upon confirmation of their attendance and the completed document (as far as possible) needs to be provided to the meeting organizers by e-mail by May 29, 2026 (to nina.pavliuk@recetox.muni.cz and katerina.sebkova@recetox.muni.cz).
Each participating country is expected to deliver a presentation on its POPs monitoring activities and arrangements covering all currently listed POPs and core matrices (template will be provided). Slides/presentation need to be provided to the organizers by e-mail by June 5, 2026 (to nina.pavliuk@recetox.muni.cz and katerina.sebkova@recetox.muni.cz).
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