ACR+ has accompanied the journey of three Interreg Europe projects as advisory partner, in charge of communication, technical advice, and knowledge exchange. Over the last few months, the projects have said goodbye at their final conferences.

The EURE project has been working to improve the participation of small, medium and peripheral cities in the definition and more effective implementation of European Urban Policy. On 22 and 23 March, EURE partners and stakeholders came together for a final congress in Alba Iulia, Romania, to review the effectiveness of environmental urban policies to improve resource efficiency.

LCA4Regions project partners presented their work in Brussels and took stock of the situation regarding the use of life cycle analysis (LCA) in both policy planning and implementation. The discussions concluded that applying LCA to local policy making requires taking simplified steps, one of which is to find a common language between public authorities, research centres, and business sector.

The SMART WASTE Final Conference took place in Sofia to showcase the efforts made by the project’s cities and regions to improve their waste management practices and strategies. One key result is 13 Good Practices which contributed to the INTERREG policy learning platform and in continuous capacity building and learning of the project partners involved.