ACTIVITIES

The objective of the DECISIVE project was to demonstrate the ability to decrease the generation of urban waste (from household or assimilated) and increase recycling and recovery by focusing efforts on decentralised management and valorisation of the organic fraction of waste, i.e. biowaste, in a short cycle.

The consortium developed new processes allowing to treat municipal bio-waste in urban and peri-urban context, namely micro-scale anaerobic digestion units allowing to treat the bio-waste production of a district and solid stade fermentation plants to produce valuable bioproducts out of the micro-AD’s digestate.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

DECISIVE’s project coordinator was Irstea (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement et agriculture, FR) and its project partners were:

• Aeris, Aeris Tecnologías Ambientales S.L. (ES)
• ARC*, Agencia de Residus de Catalunya (ES)
• AU, Aarhus Universitet (DK)
• ENT*, Fundació ENT (ES)
• GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum Fur Ozeanforschung Kiel (DE)
• ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for Sustainable Resource Management (BE)
• ITS, Innovative Technological Systems SRL (IT)
• PSUtec, PSUtec SPRL (BE)
• Refarmers (FR)
• SE*, SUEZ Environnement (FR)
• TUHH, Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg (DE)
• UAB, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES)
  * ACR+ member

ACTIVITIES

The Circular Europe Network offers access to factsheets focusing on the governance of local or regional circular economy strategies, as well as the different instruments and actions implemented on this territory.

In addition, the Circular Europe Network delivered guidelines on circular economy planning that aim to clarify the circular economy concept and to propose key steps and elements to include in a local or regional circular economy strategy.

This general guidance material is followed and progressively complemented by sectorial guidelines focusing on public procurement, sustainable food and sustainable construction

ACTIVITIES

Best practices on waste management during sports events were collected, assessed and tested aiming to realise guidelines as the basis for the awareness actions. The project engaged all the relevant contractors in enduring efforts to prevent and reduce waste during football matches (e.g. food and beverages providers, stadium cleaning operators, tickets sellers etc.). Within National Football Associations (NFAs), adequate competences and organisational structures were developed to guide the diffusion of best practices in the related football leagues and stadiums.

Project activities and results were replicated in non-participating NFAs through the establishment of a specific Replicability Management Board (RMB) coordinated by UEFA.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

LIFE TACLE’s project coordinator was SSSA (Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, IT) and its project partners were:

• ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for Sustainable Resource Management (BE)
• AMIU*, Azienda Multiservizi d’Igiene Urbana Genova SpA (IT)
• FIGC, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (IT)
• EURACTIV, EURACTIV.COM PLC (BE)
• Municipality of Heraklion (GR)
• FRF, Federatia Româna de Fotbal (RO)
• LIPOR*, Servicio intermunicipalizado de gestao de residuos do grande Porto (PT)
• SvFF, Svenska Fotbollförbundet (SE)
  * ACR+ member

HERITAGE CITIES

The project focused on waste management in Heritage Cities, as there are many in our continent.The solutions and policies proved feasible in INTHERWASTE were transferable to most heritage but also non-heritage cities in EU and the solutions and policies proved feasible in Heritage Cities were feasible in less demanding urban environments. In addition, the visibility of Heritage Cities worldwide helped duplicate the solutions and policies identified in the project in many other cities.

ACTIVITIES

As advisory partner ACR+ was in charge of providing expertise to the partnership in the different stages of the project, helping to consolidate the knowledge base.

ACR+ also organised a Capacity Building event to train partner cities representatives in the use of different waste monitoring tools for their management at city level (Pre-waste, Miniwaste, R4R, the EWWR Food Calculator and others).

In addition, ACR+ was coordinating the communication activities of the project, ensuring the visibility of the project and programme and the dissemination of good practices and policies. This included the launch of the INTHERWASTE twitter account: @intherwaste; the maintenance of the INTHERWASTE website; the creation and maintenance of a newsletter as well as other communication and information activities.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

INTHERWASTE's project coordinator was SADECO (Sanitation Cordoba, ES) and the four municipalities involved were:
•    Krakow (PL)
•    Porto (PT)
•    Ibiza (ES)
•    Tallinn (EE)

ACR+ was acting as advisory partner on the project and provided expertise to the partnership, as well as coordinated the communication activities of the project.