European co-operation in Environmental Engineering
Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies, CEEES, is a forum for international cooperation and information
exchange regarding the resistance and integrity of products and systems against environmental influences. It was created as a
co-operative body for the European societies in this field and as a partner organization to the U.S. Institute of Environmental
Science and Technology.
CEEES welcomes and encourages participation from all organizations and individuals with an interest in environmental engineering and in working with design and testing methods to enhance the integrity, performance and service life of products and systems. Activities are channelled through the national societies, and it is recommended that such societies are founded in countries, which at present do not have a national society for environmental engineering.
25th Anniversary of the Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies.
During 2009 CEEES celebrates its 25th anniversary. CEEES was created by a group of members of European environmental engineering societies who found that they regularly met at conferences in the United States but very rarely in Europe. The original CEEES statutes were lodged with the Belgium authorities in 1984 by a group of Founder members comprising members of GUS, ASTE, SEE, SEES and SSEE. Originally CEEES was the conference of European Environmental Societies who twice a year would meet to confer on the activities that individual national societies were planning to undertake. However, by the 1990’s CEEES had outgrown this original remit. The organisation had become a group of ten national societies and regularly fronted the activities of those organisations as a European body . As a consequence CEEES grew into a “Confederation” able to undertake and fund its own activities.
52nd CEEES Meeting / 1st SOPSAR Congress - Innovative Environmental Testing: A Supporting Tool for Sustainable Renewable Energies.
The Portuguese Society of Environmental Simulation and Risk Assessment is hosting the 52nd meeting of CEEES in Oporto on the 24th and 25th September 2009. On the 25th SOPSAR have organised a Congress on Environmental Testing Supporting Tool for Sustainable Renewable Energies. This Congress is open to members of all CEEES National Societies but SOPSAR would welcome anybody else with a interest in the subject. The Congress is split into two area Challenges and opportunities.
Topics to be encompassed under Challenges include;
- Manufacturing and operation of energy systems: a vision of the future
- The design for sustainability in the green islands project
- Bio-fueling in industry: Energy impacts derived from old problems but with new solutions
- Lab testing or virtual simulation in energy systems: cooperation or competition?
- Modeling, simulation, testing: tools to innovation and foster competiveness in energy production
- Water and waste industry: the role of modeling, testing, risk analysis and monitoring for asset management
- Carbon footprint analysis: a tool for less energy and more sustainability
Topics to be encompassed under Opportunities include;
- Future Sustainable Energy Supply in Europe - a Challenge for Research and Development
- Wind energy: the new cluster in Portugal
- Marine energy: towards new designs with experimental models
- Bio-energy: Innovative application of technology for system optimization
- Photovoltaic energy: a step ahead with the central of Moura
- New factors for the energy game: self-production energy simulation
- Testing, certification and standardization processes in Portugal: an overview
50th Anniversary of the Society of Environmental Engineers.
The United Kingdom Society of Environmental Engineers (SEE) was founded in 1959, as a forum for sharing knowledge in this field. Since then, the Society has grown and developed as a focus for activities at local, national and international levels. The SEE is a registered as a charity within the UK and licensed by both the Engineering Council UK and the Society of the Environment to grant registration of professional engineers and environmentalists.
The 4th European Weathering Symposium
September 16th - 18th, 2009 - Budapest, Hungary
The 4th European Weathering Symposium EWS (XXVIth Colloquium of Danubian Countries on Natural and Artificial Ageing of Polymers) is to be held in Budapest on September 16 - 18, 2009, organised by CEEES.
The Colloquia of Danubian Countries have been the only meetings in the field of natural and artificial weathering of polymers for more than 40 years. Since re-launched as the European Weathering Symposium it has become a unique forum for experts from industry and academia to learn from each other.
The main topics in 2009 are; weathering of polymeric products, determination, simulation and effects of relevant climate, new test procedures, weathering reference materials, analysis of polymer degradation and service life time prediction. The conference language will be English.
KOTEL take over the Presidency of CEEES.
Markku Juntunen
of the Finnish Society KOTEL assumed the Presidency of CEEES at the end of the 50th CEEES General Assembly that was held at VTT in
Helsinki, Finland on the 25th September 2008.
Markku, who works for
VTT at ESPOO, has been the Vice-President of CEEES for the past two year. He takes over the Presidency from David Richards of the
United Kingdom Society of Environmental Engineers. KOTEL also take over responsibility for the CEEES Secretariat. Markku is expected
to remain the President of CEEES until September 2010.
At the 50th Meeting a presentation was made from KOTEL to the outgoing President of CEEES. He in turn thanked the SEE for their
diligent and professional stewardship of the CEEES Secretariat for the past two years.
The CEEES
Vice-Presidency is taken over by Werner Wittberger of The Swiss Society of Environmental Engineers (SSEE). Werner works for
Oerlikon Contraves, Zurich, Switzerland.
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