Dear all,

Please find below the first announcement for the 1st International Terra Preta Sanitation Conference, which will be held in Hamburg, Germany, on 29th-30th August 2013 and that might be of interest for the group.

This might also be an opportunity for the WG5 to organise for a working group meeting within the frame of the conference given that we can get a reasonable number of WG5 members together. I would therefore like to ask those of you who are interested to kindly get back to me.

Further information related to the conference can be found below or on the following website: www.tps-ic.org

Thanks and best regards

rob


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Terra Preta Sanitation (TPS) is an issue of growing concern in the light of water & sanitation, climate change, energy as well as soil protection. The International TPS Conference aims at bringing scientists and practitioners together in order to present their results and to share their experiences.
The official call for abstracts is now available on the TPS website www.tps-ic.org. Abstracts can be submitted until 15th February 2013. The acceptance thereof will be notified to the leading author no later than 15th March 2013, following the evaluation by the scientific committee.
All papers accepted for presentation will be published in proceedings available at the start of the TPS conference. A selected number of papers of good quality will be considered for scientific publication, having been submitted to a regular peer-review process. Please do not hesitate to contact the organising secretariat when having questions (office@tps-ic.org)!
The conference is being organised by
· Hamburg University of Technology
WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future)
· UNESCO-IHE (Institute for Water Education)
· BDZ (Training and Demonstration Centre for Decentralized Sewage Treatment)
· German WASH Network