SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE – Bucharest, Geology Museum, 08 – 09 June 2022 – an interactive event organized by MCID for high school students. National R&D Institute for Industrial Ecology – ECOIND attended this event and organized practical experiments for future researchers. They were able to learn information about: Assessment of quality status of aquatic ecosystems based on phytoplankton communities and benthic invertebrate fauna through conventional microscopic analysis techniques; Activated sludge biocenosis from wastewater treatment plants through microscopic analysis; Alternative wastewater treatment technologies – INNOQUA (poster and video)