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: Published: 20 February 2017

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The CEYOU project – Circular Economy for Youth – aimed at promoting, engaging, connecting and empowering young people around the circular economy as a means to deal with the dangers to the environment and of climate change.

Project co-financed by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union, 2019-2021

Highlights

CEYOU produced many interesting tools to encourage and facilitate the involvement of young people and youth associations in the framework of circular economy initiatives. After the publication of the guidelines to establish permanent forums of dialogue between local authorities and youth organisations on circular economy, the CEYOU partners released a toolkit to support young people and youth organisations in developing and implementing training programmes, activities and events in the field of Circular Economy. Finally, it’s available a guide on the wide range of Open Educational Resources (OERs)already available online but spread over different web pages and websites. The toolkit organizes these resources following the different phases of project realization – from inspiration, to ideation and implementation, and can be used both individually and in groups. Multiplier events will be organised in the upcoming months in Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Republic of North Macedonia, and Wales.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

The project aimed to empower them to take positive actions and initiatives within their local communities and to develop networks, as well as exchange practices at local, regional, national and European level.

At the same time, the CEYOU project aimed to promote the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work as a power for social and economic change within Europe through focusing on the concerns of young people and developing formal, nonformal and informal learning around those issues and concerns.

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

The project outputs include the development of guidelines for the establishment of permanent fora for dialogue between youth organisations and local authorities to promote circular economy practices, the development and implementation of training programmes and activities for young people in the field of the circular economy, Open Educational Resources (OERs) for young people to support the occupational profile of a circular economy youth facilitator, and of a web application to guide young people in setting up initiatives around the circular economy.

ACR+ led the production of the first project output, namely the guidelines for the establishment of permanent fora for dialogue between youth organisations and local authorities to promote circular economy practices. The guidelines were developed through desk research on current literature by project partners and then tested through the organisation of local fora in Italy, Wales, UK, France, North Macedonia and Greece.

ACR+ also shared its expertise on circular economy with the partnership and work on the creation of OERs and the development of the web application.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

PARTNERS INVOLVED

CEYOU's project leader was Pontydysgu Limited, Bridge to Learning - Educational Research (UK), and its project partners were:

ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (BE)
ACP, Active Citizens Partnership (GR)
UCSA*, Ufficio Commune Sostenibilità (IT)
Y-E-N, Youth Express Network (FR)
CID, Centre for Intercultural Dialogue Association (MK)

* ACR+ member

: Published: 13 January 2017

Discover ACR+ latest position papers!

2016 - Open letter regarding the discussion on the EP draft report on the Waste Package

2016 - ACR+ Position Paper on the Circular Economy Package 2.0

2015 - ACR+ Position Paper: Sustainable Materials Management - A Key Solution to Climate Change

2015 - ACR+ position paper on the Circular Economy Package

2015 - ACR+ answers to Circular Economy Consultation

2014 - ACR+ position on the Circular Economy Package

2014 - ACR+ 20 years - New vision

2013 - Green Paper on a European Strategy on Plastic Waste in the Environment: ACR+ Position

2013 - The review of the European Union’s key waste targets: ACR+ Position

2012

2012 - Good practices in collection and closed-loop glass recycling in Europe

2012 - European Week For Waste Reduction Guide of Good Practices

2012 - European Week for Waste Reduction Layman's Report

: Published: 01 August 2016

The LIFE TACKLE project – Teaming-up for A Conscious Kick for the Legacy of Environment – aimed to increase the awareness and to improve the practices of sports events key actors in order to improve waste management during football events.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s LIFE programme under grant agreement LIFE17 GIE/IT/000611 TACKLE. 2018 - 2021

Highlights
The LIFE TACKLE event organised by ACR+ and EURACTIV, presented the project’s achievements in Roi Baudouin stadium, one of the project’s the 11 pilot stadiums, and open the doors to future collaborations and follow up of the project. The event highlighted the new waste management plan at Roi Baudouin stadium and which is one of the outcomes of the TACKLE activities in Brussels.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

The main objective of TACKLE was to increase awareness and to improve the practices of sports events key actors in order to improve waste management during football events.

Grounding on the shortcomings that characterise the current governance of these sports events, in order to prevent and reduce waste production during football matches, the project focused its activities on the whole sports event life cycle (conception, organisation, staging, closure).

ACTIVITIES

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

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

: Published: 01 August 2016

The DECISIVE project – A DECentralised management Scheme for Innovative Valorisation of urban biowastE – aimed to help with the reform of urban waste management systems for our ever-growing cities and populations.

Project co-funded by the European Commission, under the Horizon 2020 programme. 2016 - 2020

Highlights

The DECISIVE final conference took place in September 2020, the developers and practitioners of the DECISIVE scheme for decentralised biowaste management shared their experiences, conclusions and suggestion for the way forward. One way of learning more on DECISIVE is to watch the series of webinars.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

This project aimed to alter the current urban metabolism for organic matter, energy and biowaste, to a more circular economic model and to assess the impacts of these changes on the whole waste management cycle.

The project thus contributed to change the management of urban organic material fluxes from a linear paradigm (import of goods without thoughtful interaction between external, peri- and intra-urban area, consumption, external disposal of waste) to a circular paradigm. It helped moving waste management towards a "Zero-Waste" strategy and to achieve the objectives of the European Resource Efficiency Roadmap.

ACTIVITIES

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

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

: Published: 26 July 2016

The C ircul ar Europe Network (CEN) is a specific initiative on circular economy launched by ACR+ in order to support local and regional authorities in being ambitious on circular economy and will, therefore, support and help them to adopt aspiring circular economy strategies.

Highlights

As part of the Coordination Group of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP), and more specifically as leader of a Leadership Group dedicated to Cities and Regions, ACR+ has been actively involved in the organisation of the Platform’s annual conference, which took place online on 3 and 4 November. In particular, ACR+ co-organised two workshops on the second day of the conference, in cooperation with some of its members and other ECESP partners.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

The Circular Europe Network is a specific working group on circular economy planning which gathers ACR+ members committed to improve their resource strategies and strengthen the sustainable development of their territory.

The Circular Europe Network builds on the expertise of European front runners within the ACR+ network in order to gather, analyse and exchange information on efficient circular economy strategies implemented by cities and regions.

Based on ACR+ vision for circular economy, the Circular Europe Network aims to work on the priorities defined by its members, delivering methodological tools and access to good practices on those priorities.

ACTIVITIES

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

Interested in joining the Circular Europe Network? It is simple, become an ACR+ member and benefit from the CEN work and results!

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