The Journées Information Eaux (JIE) (in English: ''Waters Information Days'') are a series of conferences about water from famous scientists. It is located at the ENSIP in

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(France) and organized by th
Apten
an
LCME
( IC2MP).

Description

The first JIE started in 1974, and are now a biannual event There are almost 400 participants and eighty conferences which are presented in three rooms. The JIE 2012 was the 20th edition and took place from 25 to 27 September.Journées Information Eaux 2012
Chemistry Views It was originally created by the

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, the before the foundation of the ENSi Poitiers. The organisers are the Apten (Professional association of water treatment and pollution, in French), an alumnus of the graduates of the school from the TEN section, and the LCME (Laboratory of Chemistry and Microbiology of Water, in French), a laboratory which is part of IC2MP, a

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

-University of Poitiers laboratory. Three French ministers came at the JIE in 1992 and 1996:

Hubert Curien Hubert Curien (30 October 1924 – 6 February 2005) was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN Council (1994–1996), the first chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) (1981–1984), and se ...

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, Jean-Pierre Raffarin.

References

External links

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The official website
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Apten
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