Participants share knowledge, discuss ideas and co-create solutions for their cities
Citizens, governments, organizations, local authorities, waste managers and academia join the participative Face to Face Agoras
Dornbirn, May 2017. UrbanWINS (www.urbanwins.eu) launches Face to Face Agoras, to share knowledge and discuss ideas on the topics of waste, resources and innovation. This is to be done in eight pilot cities across Europe – Cremona, Torino, and two cities within the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Albano Laziale and Pomezia (Italy), Bucharest (Romania), Leiria (Portugal), Manresa and Sabadell (Spain).
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UrbanWINS is an EU-funded project that aims to develop and test methods for designing and implementing eco-innovative strategic plans for waste prevention.
Citizen and other stakeholders are called to give their opinion! The brainstorming among participants will be promoted and encouraged, to co-create solutions and promote more sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Teams from all the municipalities, in a total of 20 participants, have been trained in new collaborative methodologies by FCT NOVA to coordinate the participatory sessions of the Face to Face Agoras. These methodologies promote genuine dialogue and encourage co-construction of joint solutions, contributing with more responsible and interventive citizenship, being a valued added for engaging multistakeholders.
The recommendations and tools co-developed with the involvement of citizens will be replicable to other cities. One of the final outcomes of the project will be a toolkit for participatory and science-based decision-making and planning for waste prevention and management that can be applied in any public authority across Europe.
Background information
UrbanWINS is a three-year project that started in June 2016 and is funded by the Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020. It analyses how cities consume resources and products, and how they eliminate the waste produced, in order to develop and test eco-innovative plans and solutions aimed at improving waste prevention and management. The participatory approach is an added value of UrbanWINS, as the vision of all relevant players for waste production and management at urban level will be taken into account.
Click here to watch the video presentation of the project.
Media Contact for the UrbanWINS Agoras
Media Contact for the “UrbanWINS Face to Face Agoras” questions:
Official contact: Lia Vasconcelos
FCT NOVA (Portugal)
Email: urbanwins@campus.fct.unl.pt
Media Contact for general UrbanWINS questions:
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Official contact: Mara Pesaro,
UrbanWINS project coordinator
Comune di Cremona / Municipality of Cremona (Italy) Email: urbanwinscremona@comune.cremona.it |
