8 mars 2012
Two of our employees, Sara and Veronika, have this week attended a two-day course in HYDRUS in Prague. HYDRUS is a software tool for modeling water flow and contaminant transport in porous media.
18 December 2011
We are glad to announce that Facilia has been awarded the contract for the project CONNECT (Connecting the Network of Networks for Enhanced Communication and Training). The project will facilitate the development of a web-based platform which will enable members of the IAEA to access technical learning material and take part of training courses online.
The CONNECT project is hosted by the IAEA and is being funded by the EuropeAid department at the European Commission, with aims to facilitate the distribution of knowledge in the fields of radioactive waste management.
7-11 November 2011
Facilia hosted a regional IAEA training course on advanced safety assessment and dose calculation tool. Members from India, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan attended the workshop.
28 October 2011
Facilia has signed a framework agreement with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket). The agreement will facilitate future collaborations in the fields of risk and safety assessments of environmental hazards.
10-14 October 2011
This week Facilia has hosted three independent workshops:
19 September 2011
Between September and December, five students from Ukraine will visit Facilia on a fellowship from the IAEA. During their stay they will study management and disposal of radioactive waste.
24-26 August 2011
During the last week of August Facilia hosted their annual Facilia Workshop, this time in Ljubljana, Slovenia. On the agenda were presentations of current projects, planning for the work of 2011-2012 and also a field trip to the Krško Nuclear Power plant.
Apart from the Facilia staff, representatives from Intera, Continental, SKB, Posiva, Vattenfall, SSM, Crossland Consulting, CMSET Ecomonitor and the Facilia board also attended the workshop.
1 August 2011
We at Facilia welcome our latest addition to the staff: Veronika Raguž. Veronika has been with us since the spring of 2011 when she wrote her Master’s thesis here at Facilia. She now holds a MSc in Physical geography and quaternary geology, and specializes in hydrology, hydrogeology and water resources.
28 April 2011
A technichal seminar about PBPK modeling was held at Facilia. To access the slides, click here.
12 April 2011
The date for this years Ecolego Workshop has been set to the 10th-14th of October.
For those of you who have attended this course before, the setup is as usual:
We start off with a two day crash course in Ecolego basics. After that follows a two day presentation of new exciting features both in Ecolego 5 and in the upcoming new release: Ecolego 6. On Friday we finish the week of with a seminar where the participants are welcome to present their current work in Ecolego and discuss solutions to problems.
if you would like to participate or receive more information, please contact us at ecolego@facilia.se.
7 April 2011
In the beginning of April it was time for the next Facilia adventure: six of us went to visit the Äspö laboratory in Oskarshamn.
The Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (HRL) is a unique research facility for geological disposal where SKB performs a series of experiments at a depth of 500 metres together with Swedish and international experts.
28 March 2011
On the 24th of March the Facilia crew went on a field trip to visit the Forsmark SFR plant. SFR is a final repository for short-lived radioactive waste and is located in Östhammar north of Stockholm. The group was taken for a tour in the repository, located 50 meters underground.
25 March 2011
Between the 21th and 25th of March, a SAFRAN Workshop was held in Vienna.
15 October 2010
The Ecolego Workshop has now ended for this year. To access the slides and excercises from the course, please visit the Ecolego Homepage.
3 October 2010
In October members of the Facilia staff will attend a workshop in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine. The purpose of the workshop is to start phase II of the project "Assessment of Risks to Human Health and the Environment from Uranium Tailings in Ukraine" (ENSURE II). The overall goal with the project is to conduct a safety assessment and to propose the most effective remediation option for the contaminated areas that the inhabitants of Dneprodzerzhinsk have inherited from uranium milling during the time of the Soviet Union.
28 September 2010
This years Ecolego workshop will be held at out offices in Alvik between the 11th and 15th of October. For more information, please contact erik@facilia.se.
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