SuSanA Partners

Bioforsk conducts applied and specifically targeted research linked to multifunctional agriculture and rural development, plant sciences, environmental protection and natural resource management.

Sustainable Sanitation Design is a business oriented foundation that aims to: Deliver innovative service concepts and products to form a sanitation value chain assuring low income countries with quality sanitation systems. We seek to develop scalable implementation strategies of sanitation services based on local entrepreneurship, management incentives and value creation through the transformation of human excreta into a safe and hygienic soil improvement agent and fertilizers for agriculture.

The Norwegian University for Life Sciences UMB is recognised as an international centre of knowledge, focused on higher education and research within environmental- and biosciences. The main focus is in the fields of biology, food, environment and natural resources sciences. UMB has a leading position in science and capacity building regarding sustainable sanitation in Europe. The university offers a 2-year MSc program in “Sustainable Water and Sanitation Health and Development”, and a 1-month summercourse in “Sustainable sanitation, decentralized, natural and ecological wastewater treatment”. The research on processes and transport mechanisms in porous media has given several technological improvements regarding natural and source separating sanitary systems including cold climate adaption of wetlands, biofilters for greywater treatment, and liquid composting of blackwater. Currently more focus is given to bioenergy generation as well as health, environmental, and agronomic aspects of reuse of recycled waste products.