Since the foundation of our association in 1992, one of the major topics of our activities has been remediation and damage repair of the soil, thanks to Hungary's industrial-military heritage. From the very beginning, we have tried to keep this topic on the agenda with professional conferences and with catalysing the flow of information and the exchange of experience among the professional participants.
The first and second Oil Pollution Conference was organised in the late 1990s. It can be considered as the predecessor of today’s Re:Brown Conference. In 2000, the Groundwater Conference was followed by the first fully remediation-focused and multi-day conference in 2001 at that time only with Hungarian speakers. In 2004 we had our first foreigner participant, and in 2007 we welcomed the first foreign speaker of our event. Since then this conference has been held regularly biannually about the current issues in remediation. Due to the COVID epidemic, the upcoming conference was postponed for one year (2022) and it was renamed to Re:Brown, in order to emphasize the greater involvement of international participants (speakers, exhibitors, attendees also).
The professional background was provided by our Remediation and Damage Control Workgroup, established in 2007, during the events (in addition to invited speakers) and during the organisation.
Since 2011, our association is a member of NICOLE (Network for Industrially CO-ordinated sustainable Land management in Europe).
You can find information about our latest conference HERE. Our previous conferences can be reached out HERE.