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The Greek coastal city of Kavala will be hosting the 8th Mutual Learning event next month, on 28 June precisely, where the 11 pilot cities will gather again. The event will this time look at marine litter, an issue which affects many coastal cities and therefore open for wider public

The Lisbon Municipality received a group of 15 students from the Sustainable Development course of the Dublin Institute of Technology, on 23rd March at NEYA Lisboa Hotel, a local stakeholder for the implementation of innovative strategic waste management measures in Lisbon.

The last of the three webinars on gender within the URBAN-WASTE project’s framework, on 17 May at 11.00 CET, will be assessing the outcomes and achievements and their relation to gender.

The Austrian Waste Management Conference (“Österreichische Abfallwirtschaftstagung”), the most important platform for waste management in Austria, took place in Salzburg on 17 and 18 April.

The 2nd URBAN-WASTE seminar from a set of webinars which look at exploitation and multiplication of the project’s output took place on 19 April with 39 registered participant and three speakers including innovative measures developers and a hotel from Lisbon.

The URBAN-WASTE Charter of Commitments, launched in January this year and recently adopted by the BLUEISLANDS, a European Interreg-Med project on effects of the seasonal variation of waste generation on Mediterranean islands, received special attention at BLUEISLANDS’ conference titled “Towards a circular economy and sustainable tourism on islands” with several Members of the European parliament and representatives of theRead more

How much are tourism service providers together with food and accommodation providers aware of tourism’s impact on environmental and waste management in particular, what is their role in making tourism more sustainable and how to do it? The next URBAN-WASTE webinar, 2nd of the series of 6 will look into these on 19 April atRead more

A short but rather memorable meeting took place in Ponta Delgada, on the Azorean island of Sao Miguel last week, a meeting that the Regional Fund for Science and Technology (FRCT) can be very proud of.

Carlos Diaz, on behalf of the URBAN-WASTE project and the governemnt of the Canary Islands will present the project and share its outcomes and good practices at the “Circular Economy and Sustainable Tourism Day: IntraTEAM Project” event in Adeje on the island of Tenerife on 1 March.

The municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of Sao Miguel will be the host of the 7th Mutual Learning event and the accompanying Municipality Forum within the URBAN-WASTE project framework.