The IICER conducts, biennially, the International Symposium and Exhibition on Environmental
Contamination in Central and Eastern Europe. This symposium series was conceived and
organized at the end of the Cold War by Drs. Roy Herndon (IICER-Florida State University) and
Peter Richter (Technical University of Budapest). The IICER manages all aspects of the
planning, organization and implementation of this symposium series using IICER staff and
supported by state-of-the-art computer hardware and software.
Scientists, engineers and other environmental specialists from around the world attend
these meetings to discuss environmental, technology-based and human health related problems,
and to arrive at solutions to these problems. These symposia are designed to provide the
IICER with an on-going database of information which can be used by the U.S. Department of
Energy and others to identify and evaluate the status of technologies which have the potential
for being deployed at U.S. sites as well as at sites in Central and Eastern Europe.
This symposium series was initiated in 1992 in Budapest, Hungary. In 1994 the symposium was
again held in Budapest; the 1996 and 1998 meetings were held in Warsaw, Poland. The Fifth
International Symposium and Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central and Eastern
Europe conducted in Prague, Czech Republic was a great success. Over 700 people
participated including 400 Student Scholars and Symposium Fellows. 45 countries were
represented at this international symposium. A CD of the proceedings will be available
soon. Refer back to the IICER webpage in the future for updates on the Sixth International
Symposium.
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