APRIORA German stakeholder event

As part of the EU Interreg project APRIORA, we have developed a tool for assessing the risk posed by micro-pollutants discharged from wastewater treatment plants and piloted it in the Warnow catchment area (DE). All the results are now available, and we have officially released a QGIS plugin that allows end-users to carry out such assessments themselves for further catchments. Many partners and organisations have helped us with this, and we are very grateful to them!

We would now like to invite our regional target groups - local/regional environmental authorities/agencies and WWTP operators - to a workshop on 15 June 2026 from 1 pm to 5 pm at the AUF of the University of Rostock.

What you can expect:

• A brief introduction to the assessment concept
• A presentation of the pilot results in the Warnow catchment area, including seasonal monitoring data from four sampled WWTPs and many water bodies
• A presentation of the modelling results for risk assessment of pharmaceutical emissions, including prioritisation proposals and model-based evaluation of secondary treatment measures
• A practical workshop on how to use the developed GIS tool yourself to assess risks, prioritise plants for technical upgrades and test measures in advance.

For the workshop, we will set up computers with QGIS and the plugin so that you can get started straight away. Our model developer Cristiano will guide you through the process step by step.

We hope that this tool will be helpful to the relevant authorities responsible for strategic water management and to operators for concrete action planning.

Interested to join? Reach out to us via mail and we will get back to you.