SCIENCE AND RESEARCH CENTRE OF CHEMISTRY, AGROCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION

1. SCIENCE AND RESEARCH CENTREOF CHEMISTRY, AGROCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION - AGROPHOS - Ltd Wrocław Poland www.agrophos.republika.pl

2. Location  Poland  Lower Silesia Region (Voivodship)  City of Wroclaw

3. SCIENCE and RESEARCH CENTRE of CHEMISTRY, AGROCHEMISTRY and ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION “AGROPHOS” was founded in 1992 on initiative of a group of experts and specialists dealing with chemistry and agrochemistry. Now  AGROPHOS is an enterprise manufacturing chemical agents used in agriculture and environment protection, offering services and research on waste management and waste processing, analytics of environmental samples, expertises and environmental impact assessments. AGROPHOS Centre engages outstanding specialists and interdisciplinary panels of experts for projects carried out for diversity of clients such as commercial, state and private enterprises. There are also universities and scientific institutes among AROPHOS customers, both national and foreign ones. GENERAL INFORMATION

4. Wrocław University of Technology Politechnika Wrocławska

5. research and advisory works, expertises on the effect of chemical substances and technologies on environmentagricultural techniques, agrochemistry, environment protection, waste utilizationfeeds, fertilizers, chemicals, household chemistrymanufacture of chemical agents, mineral fertilizers, auxiliary and special use chemicalschemical analytics, technical analysescatalysis, catalytical systems of exhaust gases cleaningmulti-branch projects and technical expertisesorganization of trainings, workshops, national and international conferences and seminarsediting of scientific papers, books and conference proceedings ACTIVITY SCOPE

6. Heavy metals balance in sewage from “Legnica” copperworks water treatment plant Detoxication of soils contaminated with heavy metals in “Rudna” commune Developing of catalyst for cleaning of car’s exhaust gases Technology of tannery sewage treatment from leather manufacture in “Chojnow“ Developing of liquid suspension fertilizers technology Developing of manufacture of foliar fertilizers with micronutrients Developing of manufacture of fodder phosphates Analysis of sulfur international market against the background of requirements of liquid fuels purity Utilization of spent quenching salt for the manufacture of mineral fertilizer and barite pigment Environment impact assessment of technologies and construction investments Investigations of new fertilizers in microplot and field tests SELECTED PROJECTS

7. International seminar „Chemistry for Agriculture” organized annually in the Czech Republic under auspices of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), www.conferene.republika.pl Conference „Prospects of Polish Chemical Industry”, Karpacz International Conference „Environmental Aspects of the Use of Sodium Tripolyphosphate in Household Chemicals", Wrocław. Polish Nationwide Seminars for PhD Students „On the Border of Biology and Chemistry” organized annually in Poland andabroad, http://miesiecznikchemik.webpark.pl/konferencjechemik.htm

9. International Coopreation  Cooperation with international universities in the framework of LEONARDO DA VINCI program – receiving students from abroad for different scientific projects  LEONARDO DA VINCI PILOT PROJECT “European Quality Procedure Manual for Improving Competence Based Vocational Education and Training“ • TEMPUS JEP_11169, „Environmental Engineering in Chemistry”, 1996-1999. • TEMPUS II IB_JEP-13301-98, “3 STEPS - Starter To Environmental Problem Solving”, 1998-2001. • MINERVA_CELLTALK–88091–CP-BE-2000-Minerva-ODL “CellTalk: Cyber methods for open and distance learning in cell biology in your native language”, 2000-2003. • GERMANIAC_26422-MG-1-96-1-BE-ERASMUS-EILC, "Germaniac Millenium Edition, German language courses for engineers”, 1998-1999. • BIHUM U_MJEP-17004-2002, “European Management Project for BIH universities“, 2003-2006, • TEMPUS JEP-19020-2004, „European Union oriented Environmental Management Courses for BA/CS administration and industry”, 2004-2006.

10. AGROPHOS staff members participated in variety of works focused on quality management: • accreditation procedure of the Department of Chemistry of the Wroclaw University of Technology, evaluating the quality management and the whole system of education, • developing and presenting short courses for different target groups, focused on quality management, • participating in the process of restructuring the whole system of education introducing new curricula and two stage studies at the Department of Chemistry, • developing and introducing credits based on European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) which was the first system at the whole University allowing recognition studies during international exchange of students. •  participating in the European Management Project for Bosnia and Hercegovina using their experience in quality management to evaluate the project results. For the purpose of this project quality reports are elaborated focusing on the quality of the activities carried out and recommendations for university reforms in BIH that should be implemented.