Event EUROqCHARM Final Conference

The EUROqCHARM project has officially wrapped up! Our Final Conference was held in Brussels at the Norwegian House on 11 and 12 October of 2023. It was not an easy task to summarize three years of work in two days, but we ensured that the audience got a good distillate. We looked at how harmonisation and standardisation feeds into European and global policy development, how to ensure that local, regional and global monitoring schemes get most of the knowledge that EUROqCHARM has amalgamated and delved into progress made into production of standard materials and reporting formats to ensure quality controlled comparable data. Of course, how to ensure impact resulting from our work and looking ahead was also on the table.

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With our Final Conference we aimed to:

• Facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange between scientists and stakeholders, including policy makers, regulators and monitoring and control bodies.
• Promote the EUROqCHARM community for sustained harmonisation at local, national, regional and global levels.
• Showcase the tools developed within EUROqCHARM to support quality-controlled assessments of plastic pollution.
• Encourage further cooperation and collaboration between scientists and stakeholders.
• Discover how EUROqCHARM’s activities can support the further implementation of harmonized plastic pollution monitoring.