The Chemical, Energy and Process Engineering Doctorate Program organized the annual Doctoral Seminars, aimed at promoting the training of PhD. students and disseminate their research activities. In this edition, the seminar took place virtually through Microsoft Teams. The first session, on July 6th, 2021 was dedicated to 3rd/4th year students, while the second and third session, on July 7th, 2021 were dedicated to 1st/2nd year students. The event was open to the members of the doctorate program and to general public.

Sandra Ceballos, María Chaparro, Iratxe Crespo, Elena Fernández-Escalante, Irina Grosei, Uxue Núñez, Laia Ruiz, Tamara Sampedro, Natalia Trueba, Celia Pérez, Ainhoa Atxirika, Cristina González and Claudia Hergueta defended their final thesis in the Master in Chemical Engineering (UC-UPV/EHU). The defense took place virtually, on July 1^st, 2021. The academic evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Daniel Gorri (UC), Dr. Asier Aranzabal (UPV/EHU) and Dr. Maite Artetxe Uría (UPV/EHU).

Andrea Arguillarena is currently developing a predoctoral reserach internship at in the Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal). During this period, July – Septemer 2021, she is working on the life cycle assessment of the technology proposed by the LIFE2ACID project, to include aspects related to the uncertainty analysis and the economic evaluation of the technology focusing on analysing the feasibility of the LIFE2ACID technology in relation to other technologies and to the conventional treatment of spent pickling acids. under the supervision of Graça Martinho, who is Assistant Professor in the “Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente”, and researcher at “MARE – Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente”.

Elena Fernández-Escalante Barquín, Master in Chemical Engineering, has recently joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria to work in the research project “Tecnologías ambientales sostenibles para el aprovchamiento energético de corrientes residuales (CTM2017-87850-R) (AEI/FEDER,UE)”, led by Prof. Raquel Ibáñez.

Lucía Calvo Gutiérrez, Elena Diezhandino González, Fabián Musy Palacio and Miguel Viar Fernández, students of the European Project Semester Programme of the Chemical Engineering Degree, defended their final project on June 29^th, 2021. The event took place in the room E3 of the ETSIIT and the evaluation committee was formed by Dr. Jonathan Albo, Dr. Marcos Fallanza and Dr. Gabriel Zarca.

A new edition of the dissemination project “La Universidad en tu Barrio” organized by the Scientific Culture Unit of the University of Cantabria is currently taking place. On June 28^th, 2021, Guillermo Díaz, Lucía Gómez and Gema Pérez participated in this initiative by delivering the workshop “Atrévete a pensar como un Ingenie@ Químic@: ¿Es de buena calidad el agua de mi ciudad? The workshop took place in the Tabacalera Civic Center and was aimed at the general public. Attendees had the opportunity to learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals and how Chemical Engineers contribute to their achievement. They put into practice the knowledge acquired by testing how effective a treatment for the elimination of contaminants in water can be.