Elvia's secondment at University of Waterloo - Ontario, Canada

Our ESR Elvia Rufo Jiménez spent her secondment at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) last fall. She worked there with Dr. Roy Brouwer and the Water Economics Research Group (WERG) at the Water Institute. Her stay was focused on research regarding people's values and perceptions of the adverse effects of skin-sensitizing chemicals on human health. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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June 2023

Nuria’s secondment at Consulteco

Our ESR Nuria Rubio spent her hybrid secondment in May 2023 with Consulteco, a Czech consulting company focused on chemistry and environmental services. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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May 2023

Our students were a part of SETAC 2023

We were a part of the SETAC 33nd Europe annual meeting 2023 in Dublin. Prorisk organized one session – 7.11 Towards the next generation ERA – Integrating Mechanistic, Ecological and Socio-Economic Information. Our students presented their work there. It was very beneficial and great to see each other.

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May 2023

Diana's secondment at NIVA

Our ESR Diana Ilyaskina spent her hybrid secondment in February 2023 with NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo, Norway. She focused on learning about Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) development. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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May 2023

Kelsey's secondment at RECETOX

Our ESR Kelsey Ng spent his secondment at Recetox in Brno, Czechia. Kelsey performed a case study in collaboration with our ESRs Chander Kant Negi and Audrey Phan.The study involved an investigation on the environmental occurrence of flame retardants in the Danube River Basin, followed by environmental risk assessment and mode of action analysis of the prioritized chemicals. You can read his experiences in this short report.

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May 2023

Joint Secondment at Environmental Institute (EI), Slovakia– Simon Schmid, Niamh O’Connor, and Susanna Mölkänen

Three our ESRs spent their joint secondment at the Environmental Institute (EI) in Slovakia to learn about how an environmental and risk management company conducts target and non-target screening of chemicals in the environment and how they apply this information to prioritise chemicals in the environment. About their experiences, you can read in this short report.

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April 2023

Fourth PRORISK Newsletter

The fourth newsletter of Prorisk is available. It is focused on the ESR´s secondments and invitation to Prorisk Consortium Meeting and Stakeholder Workshop.

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March 2023

ATC5 - our last Advanced Training Course - Girona, Spain, 15-17 March 2023

The last Advanced Training Course (ATC5) of the PRORISK network took place in Girona, Spain, on 15-17 March 2023 and was organized by CSIC-CEAB and the University of Girona (UdG) in cooperation with Masaryk University (MU). The main focus of this training event was on communication and entrepreneurship in order to complement the scientific skills of the PRORISK young researchers with transferable skills important for their future career. There is a short report about this course.