The 8^th International Congress on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control and Bioenergy (Biotechniques-2019) will take place in August 28-30, 2019, this time at the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. This biennial international conference will overview innovative biotechnology based on processes for waste gasses treatment. This symposium will represent an opportunity for discussion about several innovative research aspects of environmental chemistry, environmental engineering and bioprocess technology.

   The event is co-organized by the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) and the BIOENGIN group of the University of La Coruña (Spain). Biotechniques-2019 will cover a wide variety of topics related to the application of environmental biotechnology for air pollution control, greenhouse gas mitigation, gas fermentation in bioreactors and clean (bio) fuels production and upgrading, among others.

   The Portuguese Association of Environmental Engineering - APEA (Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia do Ambiente) is organizing an International Odour Conference, that will be held in the University of Averio, Aveiro, the days 16^th and 17^th May 2019. The Call for Presentations is opened until the 15^th March (extended).

   APEA - founded on October 23, 1985 - is a non-profit association that aims to contribute to the progress of Environmental Engineering. With around 2600 environmental engineering professionals, this association represents the Portuguese network of experts working in the environment sector. APEA is part of the consortium of the D-NOSES project, which received funding from the European’s Union Horizon 2020 Science with & for Society Call (SwafS) under grant agreement No. 789315. To this effect, they are organizing this first conference on odour management.