Environment Agency Urban Diffuse Pollution Challenge
12th January 2013
Last chance to enter the Environment
Agency & CIWEM Pollution Challenge!
There is just over a week to the closing date for Pollution
Challenge on 23rd January 2013. If you or your colleagues are still
considering submitting an entry please email
pollutionchallenge@environment-agency.gov.uk to confirm that you
intend to submit an idea.
Please email any questions you may have to
pollutionchallenge@environment-agency.gov.uk by 17:00 Thursday 17th
January. We will be unable to respond to queries submitted
after this date. We've had a number of queries regarding the
post-doc category of the competition and would like to confirm that
the competition is open to current post-doc fellows, but not
lecturers or other university staff.
Since we last contacted you we have been busy organising the
Pollution Challenge event. We are delighted to announce the event
will take place at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester on Wednesday 24th
April and will be attended by Lord Chris Smith. If you or your
colleagues are interested in attending this event, then please
email pollutionchallenge@environment-agency.gov.uk
Further information and application pack available at
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/pollutionchallenge
Deadline for submissions - Wednesday 23rd January 2013.
Deadline for email queries - Thursday 17th January 2013.
Join the conversation on Twitter #pollutionchallenge
Watch a video on why students should enter Pollution Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZKv-B7TdyU
3rd December 2012
Pollution Challenge introduction video launched on YouTube
The Pollution Challenge Team has created a short video
introducing the problem of Urban Diffuse Pollution and explaining
competition. It can be found on YouTube.
The Environment Agency is proud to announce a new
challenge based around innovative solutions in Urban Diffuse
Pollution, in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Water and
Environmental Management (CIWEM).
The Pollution Challenge is designed to stimulate
and support university-led solutions to Urban Diffuse Pollution, or
more broadly non-agricultural diffuse pollution. The challenge has
been formed with the aim to discover students with bright and bold
ideas and help transform those ideas into viable solutions which
could improve our water environment.
University students in full-time education in the
north of England are invited to submit ideas around a system,
service, product, campaign or environment that addresses the causes
of, or remediate's, the impact of urban diffuse pollution.
The purpose of Pollution Challenge is to encourage
innovative thinking and explore a range of approaches and methods
to address urban diffuse pollution. The Environment Agency will
select one or more project ideas and work in partnership with the
university and student to implement the project idea. The
project will be funded by the Environment Agency and delivered in
the 2013 / 14 financial year.
Submissions should be made before the end of
December 2012.
For more information on Pollution Challenge,
including submission guidelines please visit:
1st October 2012
Do you accept the Challenge?
The Environment Agency along with CIWEM's North Western and
North Wales Branch, Tyne and Humber Branch and the Urban Drainage
Group (WaPUG) are proud to be working in partnership on this
challenge to all universities in the north of England.
The Environment Agency wishes to stimulate and support
university-led solutions to Urban Diffuse Pollution, or more
broadly non-agricultural diffuse pollution, and help transform
those ideas into viable solutions which could improve our water
environment.
This initiative has been formed with the aim of encouraging
students and university researchers with innovative thinking
to explore a range of approaches and methods to address urban
diffuse pollution.
The finalists will be invited to present their ideas to a panel
of judges at a one day conference in March 2013. Cash prizes will
be awarded to the winners at a conference dinner in the
evening.
In addition, the Environment Agency will select one or more
project ideas and work in partnership with the university and
student to implement them. The project will be funded by the
Environment Agency and delivered in the 2013 / 14 financial
year.
Entries are sought in three categories:
- Undergraduate
- Postgraduate
- Post-doctoral/departmental
University students in full-time education are invited to submit
ideas around a system, service, product, campaign or environment
that addresses the causes of, or remediates, the impact of urban
diffuse pollution. These ideas are not restricted to engineering or
scientific solutions, but any research area, for example social,
economic or educational.
The challenge is open to all universities in the north of
England (between the Scottish border and the Sheffield/Manchester
area).
Submissions should be made before the end of December 2012.
For more information on Pollution Challenge, including
submission guidelines please visit the website.
