Baltic Sea and Quality of Life Conference
City of Lappeenranta is going to organize an international water management conference on 15th and 16th of April 2021.The conference is organized as a part of the ENI LIP “Monrepos” project and it is going to be one of the Green Leaf events of the year 2021. Theme of the conference is Baltic Sea and Quality of Life.
Below you can find preliminary programme to the Conference. Programme will be updated as speakers are confirmed.
Moderator of the conference: Ilkka Räsänen, City of Lappeenranta
Day 1 10:00 – 18:45 (UTC+3)
Session 1: Opening of the Conference and introduction to the theme
9:30 – 10:00 Opening of the connections
10:00 – 10:30 Opening of the Conference
Jyrki Laitinen, Finnish Environment Institute
Valery Khabarov, Housing and Utilities Services Committee of Leningrad region
10:30 – 10:45 Greetings from the Programme
Päivi Ilves, Regional Council of South-Karelia
10:45 – 11:00 European Green Leaf Award 2021
Ilkka Räsänen, City of Lappeenranta
11:00 – 11:30 Development of the state of the Baltic Sea and future prospects
Seppo Knuuttila, Finnish Environment Institute
11:30 – 12:30 LUNCH BREAK
Session 2: Expert speeches about the theme
12:30 – 13:00 ENI LIP "Monrepos" project presentation
Alexander Kabanov, LLC "Research and Design Institute Sevzapinzhtechnology"
13:00 – 13:30 Water management improving quality of life
Sergey Balabanov, Public Council of Vyborg district
Dmitriy Samoilenko, Administration of MF Vyborg district
13:30 – 14:00 Enhanced wastewater treatment, enhanced drug and phosphorus removal
Mika Mänttäri, LUT University
14:00 – 14:30 Clearly the best water: Lappeenrannan Energia
Arto Nikkanen, Lappeenrannan Energia
14:30 – 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:00 – 15:30 Water epidemics in Finland - where they come from and what they cause
Ilkka Miettinen, Finnish institute for health
and welfare
15:30 – 16:00 Automation of technological processes of water supply and sewerage facilities and IT support of management processes
Igor Ilin, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytecnic University
16:00 – 16:30 Municipal water management strengthening innovation, development, research and business activities.
Panu Jouhkimo, Mikkeli Development Miksei Ltd
16:30 – 17:00 Discussion and summarizing the Day 1
Evening programme:
17:15 – 18:15 Lappeenranta: The heart of nature and culture
Day 2 9:00 – 14:00 (UTC+3)
Session 3: Parallel sessions
9:00 – 9:15 Introductions to the sessions and instructions
9:15 – 10:45 Parallel sessions
Parallel session 1: Wastewater treatment
Moderator: Terhi Jantunen, City of Lappeenranta
- Henri Haimi, FCG, Carbon footprint of wastewater treatment plants – lessons learnt from Finnish case studies
- Simon Ford, MARTIN GmbH, Utilization of waste water treatment sludge for biogas
- Natalia Chumachenko and Denis Kalachev, LLC Deka, Practical experience in the objects implementation in the field of wastewater disposal in the Leningrad Region. Design, construction and commissioning of facilities in settlements: villages Bolshoy Dvor, Tsvylevo and Putilovo
Parallel session 2: Network
Moderator: Guido Nuijten, AFRY
- Guido Nuijten, AFRY, Microtunneling in Finland, case Kakola wastewater treatment plant outlet pipe
- Jukka Huusko, Johan Lundberg OY, The special features and benefits of no-dig installation technology in network construction
- Dimitry Grinenko, LLC Speacial tunnel construction, Modern methods for the construction of horizontal and vertical workings in difficult geological conditions of the urban infrastructure of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region
Parallel session 3: Stormwater
Moderator: Raija Aura, City of Lappeenranta
- Satu-Pia Reinikainen, LUT University, Innovative Natural Solutions of Shungite & EM-technology for Water Purification (SHEM-WP)
- Terhi Renko, AFRY, Stormwater management practices. Comparison between Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands.
- Alexey Nikolaev, LLC Kreal, Post-treatment technologies that can be applied in the Baltic Sea region
10:45 – 11:10 Summarizing parallel sessions
11:10 – 11:25 EU policy developments in drinking water and urban waste water
Bert Leemans, European Commission
11:25 – 12:15 LUNHC BREAK
Session 4: Expert speeches and closing the Conference
12:15 – 12:35 City and River interconnection, how rivers affect cities, and to cover the issue of water pollution and microplastics in water
Oleg Lomakov, The Russian Ecological Society
12:35 – 13:05 Nature Based Solutions at Leuven
Geert Vanhorebeek, Leuven
13:05 – 14:00 Discussion, summarizing and closing the Conference