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Dive into articles, updates and visuals showcasing how nature based solutions are transforming water and life across Europe.

Dive into articles, updates and visuals showcasing how nature based solutions are transforming water and life across Europe.

Newsletter Issue 2

In this second edition, we explore the challenge of emerging pollutants and reaffirm our commitment to the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters. We take a closer look at our Spanish demo-site, CENTA, a cornerstone for testing our Nature-Based Solutions.

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Erasmus+ Training Course at Gebze Technical University

13–30 April 2026

Within the Erasmus+ programme, Dr. Ana del Arco (University of Jaén) visited Gebze Technical University (GTU, Türkiye) to advance ecotoxicological risk assessment for evaluating the effectiveness of Nature-based Solutions. She delivered a specialised course on “Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment: Behavioural Ecotoxicity Endpoints”.

World Wetlands Day at Gebze Technical University

4 February 2026

The GTU Sustainability Office, together with the NBS4AQUAMISSION team (Prof. Ebubekir Yüksel and Prof. Mehmet Salim Öncel), held a seminar to mark World Wetlands Day, underlining the role of wetlands in biodiversity and carbon storage and the project’s work on constructed wetlands to tackle pharmaceutical pollution.

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Café con Ciencia: Emerging Contaminants

Dr. Carlos Soria and Dr. Ana del Arco hosted a “Scientific Breakfast” at the University of Jaén with 1st-year Baccalaureate students from SAFA (Úbeda), exploring “Emerging Contaminants: from the medicine cabinet to the ecosystem” and how Nature-based Solutions help protect aquatic biodiversity.

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UNIRC Takes Center Stage at BioDiv 2025: Innovation for Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration

The Department of Agriculture of the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (UNIRC), a key partner in the NBS4AQUAMISSION project, successfully participated in the BioDiv 2025 Conference. Held on November 6-7 in the stunning setting of Lake Maggiore (Verbania Pallanza, Italy).

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Newsletter Issue 1

The first issue of the NBS4AQUAMISSION newsletter is now available. This edition introduces the project’s goals and its approach to tackling pharmaceutical pollution in aquatic ecosystems through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). It also highlights the project’s official launch, the first local meeting held in Jaén, and recent outreach and dissemination activities.

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NBS4AQUAMISSION Kick Off meeting in Jaén, Spain.

The NBS4AQUAMISSION international research project, focused on the protection of aquatic biodiversity from pharmaceutical pollution through the use of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), officially began its journey this week with a dynamic kickoff meeting in Jaén.

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European Researchers' Night.

26 september 2025

The Spanish team of NBS4AQUAMISSION took part in this important outreach event. The researchers from the University of Jaén explained the objectives of the project to a heterogeneous public, from teenagers to not-so-young people. We discussed the emergent contaminants problem through a pedagogic card board game.