Site Visit Objectives:
Lake Maggiore is the second largest lake in Italy and it is affected by different kinds of pollutants, due to its exploitation as a tourism destination and to the intensive agriculture around it.
The ISE Centre manages the study of the lake ecosystem and its monitoring tools. The lectures will be focused on the ISE organisation and on the activities carried on in order to monitor the water quality in the lake and the soil pollutants in the surrounding area.

Company Profile:
The Institute for the Ecosystems Study (ISE) was created in 2002, merging different research institutions, among whom the Italian Institute of Hydrobiology, created in 1938.
In the Verbania headquarters the main research fields are lake ecosystems and their management, monitoring and recovering.