Sponsorship & Partnership Opportunities

War, Soil, and Freshwater Systems

Pollution and Diseases Conference 2026

Prague, Czech Republic | 15-17 October 2026 | On-site and online participation

Sponsorship & Partnership Opportunities

Support independent expert work on war-related pollution, soil, freshwater systems, and health

The Pollution and Diseases Conference 2026: War, Soil, and Freshwater Systems is an international scientific platform focused on the long-term environmental and public-health consequences of war-related contamination.

The conference is not designed as a conventional academic event. It is the starting point of a cumulative research process that connects fragmented evidence across soil systems, freshwater systems, sediments, exposure pathways, ecosystems, public health, monitoring gaps, and decision-making histories.

We invite universities, research institutions, foundations, public bodies, NGOs, expert networks, media organizations, scientific publishers, environmental technology providers, laboratories, and responsible private-sector actors to support this independent scientific initiative.

Why this conference needs partners

War-related environmental damage is often delayed, dispersed, and difficult to attribute. Its consequences may appear separately as soil contamination, freshwater degradation, occupational exposure, ecosystem damage, food-chain risk, or public-health burden.

When these fragments remain separated, the larger process may remain partially invisible.

This conference addresses precisely this problem. It works to transform isolated observations and warning signals into structured research questions, comparative case studies, analytical briefs, methodological protocols, collaborative projects, and long-term scientific publications.

The issue cannot be avoided. War-related pollution, damaged landscapes, contaminated soils, degraded freshwater systems, toxic exposure, and long-term health consequences are already becoming major scientific, humanitarian, environmental, and policy challenges.

Serious research in this field is expensive. It requires field sampling, laboratory analysis, toxicology, epidemiology, GIS, hydrology, soil science, long-term monitoring, data infrastructure, interdisciplinary coordination, and international cooperation. Early support for this conference helps build the scientific framework from which larger future projects can emerge.

A new approach: from warning signals to process reconstruction

Many experts already identify warning signals in their own fields: contaminated soil, polluted rivers, toxic residues, altered ecosystems, occupational exposure, damaged agricultural systems, or unexplained health risks.

The next step is to connect these signals.

The conference introduces a process-oriented approach to the study of war-related environmental and health consequences. The aim is not to dramatize isolated cases, but to reconstruct the larger chains through which war-related contamination moves across landscapes, water systems, food systems, human bodies, institutions, and time.

This means connecting:

— sources of contamination;
— chemical compounds and mixtures;
— soil and sediment systems;
— freshwater systems and drinking-water sources;
— food-chain and exposure pathways;
— occupational and civilian health risks;
— affected territories and vulnerable populations;
— gaps in monitoring and data collection;
— decisions made under scientific uncertainty;
— remediation, recovery, and future research needs.

This is the core novelty of the conference: it does not treat knowledge gaps as secondary weaknesses. It treats them as research objects in their own right.

What your support enables

Sponsorship and partnership contributions help create the scientific, organizational, and communication infrastructure needed for this work.

Your support may contribute to:

— participation of early-career researchers;
— participation of experts from affected regions;
— online access for international participants;
— preparation of pre-conference analytical briefs;
— peer-reviewed e-poster and presentation records;
— DOI-linked conference outputs;
— editorial and translation support;
— public communication and media outreach;
— expert roundtables and project-oriented discussions;
— development of future scientific project concepts;
— preparation of post-conference publications;
— formation of international research groups and consortia.

This support is not simply a contribution to a three-day event. It helps create the conditions for future scientific projects.

Why support is strategically valuable

The cost of early scientific coordination is small compared with the cost of late recognition.

When contamination is recognized only after years or decades, the consequences may include expensive remediation, public-health burdens, legal disputes, loss of agricultural productivity, damaged water systems, fragmented evidence, and poorly designed recovery policies.

Early investment in independent scientific work helps reduce these risks.

Supporting the conference can help partners:

— understand emerging scientific priorities;
— identify future project areas before they become urgent crises;
— connect with researchers and institutions working on war-related pollution;
— support credible interdisciplinary knowledge;
— contribute to better monitoring and remediation frameworks;
— strengthen future grant proposals and research consortia;
— align institutional activity with environmental protection, public health, humanitarian recovery, and long-term risk governance.

War-related environmental consequences will require major scientific projects in the coming years. Supporting this platform now is a cost-effective way to participate in the formation of that future research field.

Scientific independence

The conference is open to sponsorship and partnership, but its scientific independence is not negotiable.

Sponsorship does not influence:

— abstract review;
— speaker selection;
— scientific programme decisions;
— session structure;
— publication decisions;
— DOI assignment;
— editorial review;
— conference conclusions;
— research priorities;
— public statements by the Scientific Committee or organizers.

All scientific content remains under the responsibility of the Scientific Committee, reviewers, editors, moderators, and conference organizers.

Sponsors and partners may propose areas of cooperation, expert topics, or institutional contributions. Such proposals are considered only if they are compatible with the scientific aims of the conference and are approved through the normal organizational and scientific process.

Sponsorship does not purchase a presentation, a publication, a scientific conclusion, or institutional endorsement.

Ethical sponsorship policy

The conference welcomes support from organizations whose values and activities are compatible with:

— environmental protection;
— public health;
— scientific integrity;
— humanitarian responsibility;
— independent research;
— long-term ecosystem recovery;
— responsible risk governance.

The organizers reserve the right to decline sponsorship or partnership proposals that may create a conflict of interest, undermine public trust, compromise scientific independence, or contradict the mission of the conference.

Transparency is essential. Sponsors and partners will be publicly acknowledged, and the form of support may be described where appropriate.

Partnership formats

Scientific Partner

For universities, research institutes, expert networks, laboratories, and academic initiatives.

Possible forms of cooperation include expert participation, dissemination of the call for papers, contribution to analytical discussions, methodological exchange, development of future project concepts, and support for post-conference publications.

Institutional Partner

For foundations, NGOs, public bodies, international organizations, professional associations, and humanitarian or environmental initiatives.

Institutional partners may support outreach, participation from affected regions, policy dialogue, expert communication, and future cooperation around war-related environmental recovery.

Media Partner

For media organizations, scientific communication platforms, environmental journalism networks, and public-interest communication initiatives.

Media partners may support visibility, interviews, expert commentary, public communication, and dissemination of conference outcomes.

Technical or In-Kind Partner

For organizations able to support digital infrastructure, translation, data visualization, GIS, online access, publication workflows, monitoring tools, environmental analysis, or communication platforms.

In-kind support is welcome when it strengthens accessibility, scientific quality, documentation, or long-term preservation of conference outputs.

Financial Sponsor

For organizations willing to provide direct financial support for the conference, participation access, analytical briefs, project-oriented discussions, publications, communication, or long-term development of the platform.

Financial sponsorship is especially important because independent scientific work on war-related environmental consequences requires resources before large research grants and institutional projects can be developed.

Sponsorship categories

Supporting Partner

Suggested contribution: €500–€1,000

Recognition includes:

— logo and link on the conference website;
— acknowledgement as a Supporting Partner;
— mention in selected conference communication;
— public thanks after the conference.

This category is suitable for small institutions, NGOs, academic groups, professional associations, and early-stage partners.

Silver Partner

Suggested contribution: €2,000–€3,000

Recognition includes:

— logo and link on the conference website;
— acknowledgement in conference materials;
— mention in selected email and media communication;
— one complimentary online registration;
— invitation to selected open partner communication activities.

This category is suitable for organizations wishing to support conference access, communication, and international participation.

Gold Partner

Suggested contribution: €5,000

Recognition includes:

— prominent logo placement on the conference website;
— acknowledgement in conference materials;
— mention in opening or closing acknowledgements;
— two complimentary registrations, online or on-site subject to capacity;
— option to support an analytical brief, access fund, or project-oriented discussion area;
— post-conference acknowledgement in public communication.

This category is suitable for organizations that want to support the development of the conference as a serious international scientific platform.

Strategic Partner

Suggested contribution: from €10,000

Recognition includes:

— major partner visibility on the website and selected materials;
— acknowledgement as a Strategic Partner or Patron;
— three complimentary registrations, online or on-site subject to capacity;
— possibility to support participation from affected regions or early-career researchers;
— possibility to support a named analytical brief series or project-development component;
— invitation to a partner meeting with the organizers after the conference;
— post-conference acknowledgement in public and institutional communication.

Strategic Partner status is intended for organizations that understand the long-term importance of war-related environmental and public-health research and wish to support the formation of future scientific projects.

Project Development Partner

Suggested contribution: from €25,000

This category is designed for organizations interested in supporting the transition from conference discussion to structured scientific project development.

Support may contribute to:

— preparation of project concepts;
— expert working groups;
— comparative case-study design;
— methodological protocols;
— monitoring and data requirements;
— future grant preparation;
— international research consortium development;
— post-conference project workshops;
— publication and dissemination of project-oriented outputs.

Project Development Partners do not receive influence over scientific conclusions, review decisions, or publication outcomes. Their support helps create the conditions for independent project formation.

This category is especially relevant for foundations, research-support organizations, international institutions, environmental recovery initiatives, and partners interested in long-term scientific cooperation.

What partners receive

Partners receive visibility and access to a serious international expert environment without compromising the independence of the scientific process.

Depending on the partnership level, benefits may include:

— public acknowledgement;
— logo placement on the website;
— mention in conference materials;
— inclusion in selected communication;
— complimentary registrations;
— access to public conference outputs;
— invitation to partner communication activities;
— opportunity to support participation, analytical briefs, or project-development components;
— post-conference acknowledgement;
— discussion of future cooperation with the organizers.

All partner visibility is non-commercial and mission-aligned.

Who should consider supporting the conference?

This conference may be relevant for organizations working in or connected with:

— environmental science;
— soil science and land restoration;
— freshwater systems and water security;
— toxicology and environmental chemistry;
— public health and epidemiology;
— occupational health;
— ecological monitoring;
— GIS, remote sensing, and environmental data systems;
— humanitarian recovery;
— post-conflict reconstruction;
— environmental remediation;
— scientific publishing;
— academic networking;
— sustainability and long-term risk governance;
— responsible institutional investment in scientific knowledge.

The conference is especially relevant for partners who understand that war-related environmental consequences are not temporary side effects, but long-term transformations of the conditions in which societies, ecosystems, and future generations will live.

From conference to future research projects

The conference is structured as a three-day scientific process.

Day 1 establishes the central scientific problems through invited plenary presentations.
Day 2 develops focused thematic discussion through parallel sessions and e-poster contributions.
Day 3 is dedicated to project-oriented research discussion.

This third day is central to the concept. It is designed to translate conference materials into structured research directions, including project concepts, comparative case studies, methodological protocols, monitoring needs, interdisciplinary teams, joint publications, international research consortia, and future scientific projects.

Sponsorship and partnership support therefore contributes not only to the conference itself, but to the formation of a longer research trajectory.

Become a partner

We welcome cooperation with organizations that wish to support independent expert work on war-related pollution, soil systems, freshwater systems, exposure pathways, ecosystem impacts, and public-health consequences.

A limited number of partnership opportunities are available.

To discuss sponsorship, partnership, or in-kind support, please contact:

Dr Dmitry Nikolaenko
Conference Organizer
dn@pollution-diseases.org

Please include:

— organization name;
— country;
— contact person;
— type of partnership or support;
— preferred sponsorship level, if applicable;
— relevant scientific, institutional, or project interests.