The Laboratoire Eau, Environnement et Systèmes Urbains (Leesu) is a joint research team of the École des Ponts ParisTech and the Université Paris-Est Créteil. The Leesu focuses its research on urban water with different approaches: Hydrology, biogeochemistry, chemical contaminants and public policies. The laboratory develops interdisciplinary research. One of the topics the laboratory works on is the plastic pollution along the full size continuum (micro and macroplastics) in various urban compartments. The Leesu investigates the pathways, inputs and fluxes of this pollution.
The International Initiative on Water Quality (IIWQ) of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) was established in 2012 to promote international scientific collaboration, knowledge generation and dissemination, joint research activities, science-based decision-making, and innovative solutions, technologies, policy approaches and best practices to address water quality issues in a holistic manner, by involving researchers, professionals and policy-makers as well as other stakeholders in both developing and developed countries.
The university of Bayreuth was found in 1975 and advances interdisciplinary research and teaching on the basis of excellence in academic disciplines. The globalised society is constantly faced with new and ever more complex questions. The right answers are found where there is close and above all interdisciplinary cooperation - like at the University of Bayreuth.
Today, UBT is one of the most successful young universities in Germany. The University of Bayreuth is ranked 45th out of the world's top 475 universities younger than 50 in the 'Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Ranking'.
Interdisciplinary research and teaching is the main feature of more than 160 degree programmes offered at seven faculties in the natural sciences, food sciences, engineering, law and economics, as well as language, literature and cultural studies.
École des Ponts ParisTech, created in 1747 under the name École Royale des Ponts et Chaussées, is a higher education establishment that trains engineers to a high level of scientific, technical and general competency. Apart from civil engineering and spatial planning, historically the source of its prestige, the School develops high-quality programs and research associated with the energy transition.
Since its foundation in 1970, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) has established itself as both a locally grounded institution and a globally connected university.
UPEC is one of the major multidisciplinary and vocational universities within the Paris area.
With 19 sites and its main campus only 20 minutes from the heart of the French capital by subway, its serves a population of over 38,000 students.
SIAAP- the greater Paris Sanitation Authority- was established in 1970. It transports and treats wastewater for nine million people in and around Paris, along with stormwater and industrial water, contributing to a thriving natural environment in the Seine and Marne rivers.
SIAAP covers four French departments : Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne, along with 180 municipalities in the Val d’Oise, Essonne, Yvelines and Seine-et-Marne departments, which have signed an agreement with the SIAAP.