El jurado de los Premios a la Transferencia de Tecnología en Galicia 2018 decidió otorgar una mención especial al proyecto “Pescaenverde: Historia dunha Ecoetiqueta”, la única ecoetiqueta específica de los productos del mar que informa al consumidor sobre el impacto en el cambio climático que supone cada pieza de pescado a la venta. Los investigadores responsables de este proyecto son Gumersindo Feijoo, María Teresa Moreira, Pedro Villanueva y Ian Vázquez-Rowe, todos ellos formaron parte del Departamento de Ingeniería Química de la USC.

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Linguistic Normalization Service of the University of Santiago de Compostela, reward the Master Thesis of Lucía Argiz for its linguistic quality

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Alberte Regueira wins the first prize of the second edition of the Research Pitches Contest with a video entitled ‘Modelling the production of high added-value biobased products’. The Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) has organised this Contest targeted to researchers from different Universities. The aim of this contest is to reward the research pitch that best reaches a general audience and transmits the importance of the research work taking into account also the contribution that it makes to society. The video presented by Alberte Regueira with the technical support of Iria Lema, was elected as the best among 19 pitches submitted from 7 different universities.

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International Conference on Materials & Energy awards Prof. M. Moreira for her contribution "Environmental sustainable assesssment of biorefinery production chains from lignocellulosic biomass" as best oral presentation

Enerwater project coordinated by Almudena Hospido, has been awarded by the Official Association of Industrial Engineers of Galicia with the Galician Prize of Energy 2018 for best energy efficiency project on 5th March 2018. The cerermony was held on 13/04/18 in A Coruña (Spain) with the presence of the Regional Minister of Industry and other authorities.

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Due to his great presentation entitled "Removal of dissolved methane and nitrogen in dairy industry wastewater using the SIAM process", Adrián Arias won one of the 4 grants given by the "Escuela del Agua" to study a Master on Technology and Water Management.

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The LIFE AQUAENVEC project has been recognized as the Best LIFE-Environment Project 2015

ELAN® technology (autotrophic nitrogen removal) developed among the Environmental Engineering and Bioprocesses Group of the University of Santiago de Compostela and the company FCC Aqualia has been awarded with the prize "Innovation + Sustainability + Network" organized by the newspaper EXPANSIÓN. Fcc Aqualia was awarded in the category of Great Sustainable Enterprise thanks to ELAN technology on November 2014.

An eco design project, developed by Gumersindo Feijoo, Mª Teresa Moreira and Sara González, from Biogroup-USC and the researcher group Sostenipra -Inèdit-ICTA from Autonomous University of Barcelona, has been awarded at the Design for Recycling Award 2013 in Catalonia. The result of this eco design project is the knife "Nueva Serie 900 ARCOS".

LIFE+ AQUAENVEC has won the European Projects Awards 2013 in the category of ONGOING projects, organized by the European Projects Association (EPA). AQUAENVEC has been selected by a jury of experts as the best project of its category. This prize came when AQUAENVEC celebrated one year and a half from its beginning.

El Grupo de Ingeniería ambiental y bioprocesos, del Departamento de Ingeniería Química de la USC, recibe el premio de invención e investigación en química aplicada “Premio Martinez Moreno” otorgado por la Fundación García Cabrerizo y la Universidad de Sevilla y recogido por su Director Juan M. Lema Rodicio. Se destaca en la concesión del Premio “La contribución del Grupo al desarrollo de tecnologías innovadoras en el campo del tratamiento de aguas residuales” valorando el doble objetivo de avanzar en el conocimiento científico-tecnológico y la aplicación para la resolución de problemas de la sociedad.