The INOWASIA steering committee convenes in Laos for its third biannual meeting

The UB Solidarity Foundation is represented at the event by the coordinator of its Program of natural solutions for a sustainable development. From April 1 to 7, the INOWASIA steering committee convenes in Laos for its third biannual meeting. The meeting has started in Vang Vieng and has been followed…

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Earth Sciences students present in Palestine the use of fog as a water resource

The students transfer their knowledge to students and teachers of two Palestinian universities in the framework of a project of the Catalan Association for Peace and the UB Solidarity Foundation. On December 21, 2022, Cristhian Huanaco, Jhesibel Chávez and Pablo Tamayo, students of the Master’s in Science and Integrated Management…

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UB Solidarity Foundation will present experiences of NBS for wastewater treatment and reuse in Senegal

It will do so in an international webinar, open to the public, in which it will share the experiences of a project that has had the support of the Barcelona City Council. The Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona will present, on Friday 30 September at 3pm, in an…

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Floating or constructed wetlands: nature-based water treatments being tested in cities in Southeast Asia

Representatives from Sri Lanka, Philippines and Vietnam, as well as from the UB Solidarity Foundation, have presented their experiences in the field. Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona (UB) is an associate partner of the project Integrated assessment of existing practices and development of pathways for the effective integration…

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The UB Solidarity Foundation provides technical advice in a project on water treatment in urban areas of Asia

The main goal of the project is to contribute to the integration of nature-based water treatment technologies in the management and planning of urban water. Water quality is a critical challenge in Asia in the context of growing industrialization, urbanization and climate change. In the Philippines, for example, only 17%…

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