Baltic Sea and Quality of Life Conference
City of Lappeenranta is going to organize an international water management conference on 15th and 16th of May 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.
Day 1 10:00 – 18:45
Session 1: Opening of the Conference, high level speakers and introduction to the theme
9:30 – 10:00 Opening of the connections
10:00 – 10:30 Opening of the Conference
Speaker yet to be confirmed
10:30 – 10:45 Greetings from the Programme
Speaker yet to be confirmed
10:45 – 11:00 European commission water directives (Green Leaf Event)
Speaker yet to be confirmed
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 Monrepos presentation
State Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal of Leningrad Oblast”
13:00 – 13:30 Water management improving quality of life
Speaker yet to be confirmed
13:30 – 14:00 Enhanced wastewater treatment, enhanced drug and phosphorus removal
D.Sc. (Tech.) Mika Mänttäri, LUT University
14:00 – 14:30 Status of water supply plants in Finland
Speaker yet to be confirmed
14:30 – 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:00 – 15:30 Water epidemics in Finland - where they come from and what they cause
Chief researcher Ilkka Miettinen, Finnish institute for health
and welfare
15:30 – 16:00 Speaker yet to be confirmed
16:00 – 16:30 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytecnic University
Speaker yet to be confirmed
16:30 – 17:00 Metsä-Sairila bedrock plant – A Pioneer in wastewater treatment
Speaker yet to be confirmed
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion and summarizing the Day 1
Evening programme:
17:45 – 18:45 Culture
Day 2 9:00 – 14:00
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
- Henri Haimi, FCG, Carbon footprint of wastewater treatment plants – lessons learnt from Finnish case studies
Parallel session 2: Network
- 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
Parallel session 3: Stormwater
- Satu-Pia Reinikainen, LUT University, Innovative Natural Solutions of Shungite & EM-technology for Water Purification (SHEM-WP)
10:45 – 11:15 Summarizing parallel sessions
11:15 – 12:15 LUNHC BREAK
Session 4: Expert speeches and closing the Conference
12:15 – 12:45 Nature based solutions in water technology OR Climate change and water management
Speaker yet to be confirmed
12:45 – 13:15 Speaker yet to be confirmed
13:15 – 14:00 Discussion, summarizing and closing the Conference