Project responsible(s)
Presentation
BEHaviour Analysis and Valorisation for Elevated waste prevention strategies
Project co-funded under the Interreg Europe Fund of the European Union, 2025 - 2029.
The BEHAVE project wants to explore, collect and valorise intelligence on behaviour and turn it into assets for improving waste prevention, separate collection and litter prevention strategies. Innovative and advanced waste management approaches such as Save-As-You-Throw (SAYT), Know-As-You-Throw (KAYT), Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT), combined with nudging principles, reuse schemes and smart waste management solutions considerably contribute to waste prevention, separation and recycling and circular economy in general. While they exist across Europe and are already available to residents and households, its wider distribution and deployment in non-residential areas remains an untapped potential for their full deployment. Tourism destinations attracting large numbers of visitors, the great outdoors as destinations for hikers, nature lovers and other practitioners of leisure activities, historical city centres where local residents and visitors converge, high density and high frequency areas with travellers and commuters are only some of the cases among many others, each with its own specific setting, target group and other challenges.
Activities
ACR+ would have a double role in the BEHAVE project.
On one hand, as a technical advisor, ACR+ will monitor and ensure the quality of the project through the revision and selection of good practices and their exchange, as well as dissemination through the policy learning platform, assisting project partners in organising relevant workshops and webinars as their moderator and overall - ensure that the project follows the defined workplan, generates relevant and quality content and facilitate the synergies between the BEHAV-E project and other likeminded intiatives, as well as individual practitioners in the field across Europe. With their experience and network built around behavior analysis, ACR+ will also oversee this important aspect of the project and provide relevant knowledge and input when needed. Finally, the production of relevant policy briefs and publications will also fall under ACR+'s responsibility.
On the other hand, ACR+ will be responsible for supporting LP01's overal communication and dissemination of milestones, deliverables and activities in general, as well as undertaking individual activities (video production, interview recordings). While LP01 will oversee the website, newsletter and social media management, the development of the project's visual identity and production of relevant communication material, such as printed materials and audio-video productions. ACR+ will support the organiation of each dissemination event, including the Final Event.
Partners
BEHAVE’s lead partner is MONM, Mestna Občina Novo Mesto (SI). The other partners are:
- ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (BE)
- IRIS Salten (NOR)
- DUNEA, Dubrovnik – Neretva County Development Agency (HR)
- IBGE-BIMN, Brussels Environment (BE)
- ATA ANcona (IT)
