UrbanWINS pilot cities plan project activities in Venice
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Representatives of the UrbanWINS pilot cities – Albano Laziale, Cremona, Pomezia and Turin, in Italy; Leiria, in Portugal; Bucharest, in Romania, and Manresa and Sabadell, in Spain – participated in project workshops focused on strategic urban planning and participatory mechanisms development, including using procurement in the context of waste prevention. The knowledge and the experience gained will be used in the next phases of the UrbanWINS project, aiming at co-creating eco-innovative waste management and prevention strategies.
Cities involved in the project will start identifying the priorities and objectives for reducing resource consumption and waste production at source, with the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders. Face-to-face meetings – urban agoras – will take place in each of the cities, and a virtual platform – online agoras – will be available from the UrbanWINS website this spring to encourage discussion and brainstorming.
With the support of experts from the University IUAV of Venice, hosts of the meeting, the UrbanWINS cities explored the connections between actions that are directly related to waste management and actions that can be taken in other sectors but that affect waste production and/or have an impact on the success of waste management and practices.
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