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## Fifteen researchers are trained in the Marie Curie European Network on drugs of abuse in wastewater‬

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  ITN-Marie Curie SEWPROF.

The University Institute of Pesticides and Waters (IUPA) of the Universitat Jaume I participates in the European project SEWPROF which is allowing train 15 researchers, two of them from the University of Castellón, in the field of epidemiology in wastewater focused on the estimation of consumption of drugs of abuse.  ‪In the Marie Curie European Training Network, entitled "A new paradigm in drug use and human health risk assessment: Sewage profiling at the community level ([SEWPROF](http://sewprof-itn.eu/))", participate experts from the areas of analytical chemistry, environmental sciences, modelling mathematics, pharmacology, toxicology, clinical studies, social sciences and health and water engineering, in order to take advantage of available expertise in various fields and to apply this interdisciplinary approach in epidemiological studies related to public health.

‪The director of the IUPA, Félix Hernández, highlights the opportunity it means for young researchers to participate in such projects.  ‪"They have a contract of 24 to 36 months to make progress in their research with stays at centres of different countries, which gives them a unique training and experience," he says, explaining that "from the fifteen researchers, eleven pre-doctoral and four post-doctoral, two have been students of the Degree in Chemistry at the UJI. They are Ana Causanilles, who is currently hired by the Watercycle Research Institute (KWR) of Holland; and Emma Gracia, who did her thesis at the UJI, and has now a post-doctoral contract at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan.  ‪They have also done several internships of one or two months in other countries that are also part of the network since the project promotes mobility ".  ‪Meanwhile, the campus of the Jaume I also welcomes researchers from all parts of the world who are training while conducting their research, through this training network.

**‪Training course in Castellón**

‪Within the training project, last 29th and 30th April, the Jaume I hosted the fifth training course ITN-Marie Curie SEWPROF, this time focused on the validation of analytical methods and quality control, in which researchers presented some of the progress made.  ‪To the course attended about 40 students from various countries, including the 15 that are part of SEWPROF and the rest funded by COST Action ES1307 "Sewage biomarker analysis for community health assessment".  ‪In addition to specific conferences on the topic, it also included a session on European funding opportunities and access to the labour market.  ‪The previous four training courses were held in Bath, Oslo, Nieuwegein (Netherlands) and Milan.

‪In the field of research, the working group [IUPA](http://ujiapps.uji.es/institucional/estructura/instituts/iupa/) (UJI) focuses its activities on the development of advanced analytical methods based on mass spectrometry using high resolution for a universal screening of emerging contaminants, mainly drugs and drugs of abuse. The main objective is to detect the largest possible number of these compounds in wastewater as well as their most relevant metabolites and degradation products, many of them still unknown.  ‪Data generated are used for epidemiological purposes, such as estimating drug use in populations under study.  ‪With the establishment of control methods based on analysis of wastewater it seeks to put Europe at the forefront of diagnosis, enabling a rigorous comparison among countries, with real-time measurements of drug use, addressing, thus, the problem of drug abuse in today's society.

‪The SEWPROF project has a total funding of 4.2 million euros and counts with the participation of 16 leader European institutions in their field from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Spain.

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