BIOCOLLOIDS FATE AND TRANSPORT IN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, NETWORK BIOMET

In order to investigate the mechanisms of biocolloids fate and transport in environmental systems as well as their effect on public health, a University of Patras interdisciplinary group formed the Interuniversity Network for Biocolloid Fate and Transport in Environmental Systems (BIOMET) with coordinator the Environmental Engineering Laboratory (UPeel) in the Civil Engineering Department of University of Patras. Τhe Network consists of six more laboratories: the Hygiene Laboratory in the Medicine Department, the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory in the Physics Department, the Research Group of Environmental Chemistry with Emphasis on Liquid Pollution in the Department of Chemistry, the Transport Phenomena and Physicochemical Hydrodynamics Laboratory in the Chemical Engineering Department, the Environmental Processes Engineering Laboratory in the Chemical Engineering Department and the Zoology Laboratory in the Biology Department. The BIOMET network will support new scientists in thematic areas concerning water pollution from biocolloids, will cooperate with the local community, public and private operators, Greek as well as international research institutes and groups with main aim the scientific knowledge development for the people standard of living improvement.