Events

What do you get when you mix a passion for healthy soils with Greek sunshine and a room full of Europe’s leading bioremediation minds? This year’s European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-IX) in Chania in June 2025 was the perfect stage for the pHYBi team to share our project’s unique, two-fold modelling workflow.

When you think of mining, you might picture hard hats, heavy machinery, and the distant rumble of industry. But for the pHYBi team, our recent adventure in Belorado, east of Burgos, Spain, was all about the silent legacy of mining: salty soils and their impact on the landscape. In this pHYBi case study, ear our project partner University of Burgos, we’re using a combination of hands-on science and drone technology to address environmental issues directly.

#Throwback: In December 2024, project members from ICCRAM at the University of Burgos and the CETIM Technological Centre visited the Institute of Natural Resources and Territorial Planning (INDUROT) at the University of Oviedo. Together they inspected one of the key case studies within the pHYBi project—one of the largest brownfield sites in Spain

We are excited to announce that pHYBi has officially joined the ALL4BIOREM cluster. This collaboration brings together leading projects in the field of bioremediation, including MIBIREM, BIOSYSMO Project, Nymphe, EDAPHOS, and ISLANDR Horizon EU, to exchange knowledge and advance innovative techniques and solutions in bioremediation. Together, we will build a comprehensive toolbox based on our collective findings and coordinate the dissemination of the results across our projects.

In December 2024, the EU Mission Soil Week took place in Brussels, highlighting the crucial role of soil in mitigating climate change and supporting biodiversity. Key discussions revolved around food security, ecosystem resilience and sustainable soil management. The pHYBi project, which focuses on phytomanagement for a bio-based textile industry, participated in the discussion and was represented by two of its project partners: Idener and the University of Burgos (UBU).