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The Sicilian city of Syracuse, as one of the project’s pilot cities, had the pleasure to host the 9th Mutual Learning event on “Marketing Measures and Communicating Good Practices to Different Target Groups” and the accompanying Municipality Forum which gathered not only our own pilots but other exemplary cities as well as local attention.

While the implementation phase of eco-innovative measures is in full swing in the project’s 11 pilot cities, the Municipality of Syracuse will welcome the representatives of these 11 cities and regions in order to discuss marketing measures and communicating good practices to different target groups.

The Greek city of Kavala, also one of the 11 pilot cities of the URBAN-WASTE project, hosted the 8th of 11 foreseen  meetings of the project consortium in order to review the progress of the pilot’s measures implementation phase and exchange practices and challenges related to marine litter

The three piece webinar series on gender mainstreaming in waste management ended this week providing the project consortium and external audience with a reflection on what role gender plays in communication activities, budgeting and reporting.

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.