On Monday, October 16, the Directory of International Affairs of Feevale University receives professor Harri Mattila from Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) and Sari Huuhtanen, from the Finnish Global Dry Toilet Association of Finland, to discuss the project about the development of the Dry Toilets for the institution.

Environmental sustainability has favored the potential for the agricultural reuse of excreta, which has been worldwide adopted. Thus, the main goal of the project is to characterize the excreta to evaluate the possibility of reuse and stabilization processes and inactivation of pathogens - organisms than can transmit disease – and its aims is to produce materials for safe reuse in agriculture as well as improve sanitation technology, which has already been broadly widespread in Nordic countries.

‘The project will strengthen the agreement and internationalization between universities, together with the Finnish company, and may contribute to the development and implementation of the dry toilets in the region of Vale do Sinos through technology transfer and innovation’ said Caroline Rigotto, researcher and professor of the master’s degree in Virology of Feevale.

In addition to the multidisciplinary integration of various thematic areas and institutes of the institution and community, such analyses can be used as the basis of the system validation of the dry toilets for the Brazilian conditions of climate and soil, so that it implementation can be done extensively, providing external partnerships fundraising together with private companies.