SCP/RAC participated in the SWEEP-NET Forum

SCP/RAC has participated in the 4th SWEEP-NET Regional Forum in Amman (Jordan) from 13th to 15th May 2014. The SWEEP-NET is a regional solid waste initiative of exchange of information and expertise in the Maghreb and Mashreq countries.

The forum gather participants from public and private sector, NGOs, donors, academics, research institutes, etc in order to exchange experiences and perspectives.     ...

SWITCH-Med Programme goes online soon

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SWITCH-Med Programme launches on the 5th of June its new web platform www.switchmed.eu presenting the latest actions by policy-makers, industry, entrepreneurs and civil society towards sustainable consumption and production in the Mediterranean.

SWITCH-Med Programme launches its brand new web platform www.switchmed.eu on the 5th of June, which is the World Environment Day, a day for celebrating awareness on environmental issues worldwide and encouraging ...

17th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production

From 14-16 October, 2014, Portoroz (Slovenia) will host the 17th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP 2014).

The objective of the 17TH ERSCP is to provide a platform to stimulate, develop and disseminate information about new initiatives aiming at fostering the implementation of ...

SWITCH-Med represented at the Joint MED International Workshop in Bologna

Last 14th of May the international workshop “Sustainable Development: products, consumption, promotion and territorial marketing” took place in the Province of Bologna. The event was organized by the Province of Bologna in the framework of the ...

The international workshop aimed at encouraging real opportunities for collaboration in the fields of sustainable consumption and production and at encouraging the cross ...

Alger hosted a training of H2020 on eco-innovation and sustainable industrial areas

SCP/RAC and MIO-ESCDE organized a new training on eco-innovation, industrial ecology and clean production in Alger on 6th-7th May 2014, in the framework of the EC funded Horizon 2020 Initiative. Around 35 delegates from public administration, ...

On the first day of the training, a recognized international expert from SOFIES presented the state of the art on Industrial Ecology and symbiosis, with a special focus on ...

A project supported by SCP/RAC promoting SCP in the Mediterranean region is labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean

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The Senior Officials of the 43 Union for the Medierranean (UfM) countries approved unanimously the labelling of the "Med ReSCP: Post Rio+20 promotion of sustainable consumption and production patterns –with emphasis on resource efficiency– in the Mediterranean region" project during the Senior Officials Meeting that ...

The project is promoted by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with the support of the Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption ...

SCP/RAC promoted green entrepreneurship among young entrepreneurs

SCP/RAC participated in the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Meeting 2014 where 32 young entrepreneurs from different Mediterranean countries and the European Union could exchange experiences and good practices in the field of social entrepreneurship, ...

The Meeting was organized by the Youth General Directorate of the Family and Welfare Department of Catalonia in collaboration with IEMed and the Catalan Agency for Development ...

Green Economy and SCP were the focus of a new H2020 Workshop

In the framework of the EC funded H2020 CB/MEP Initiative, the SCP/RAC organized in collaboration with SWITCH-Med programme (UNEP/DTIE) a new training on Green Economy and Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), on the 25-26th March ...

This national training, second round of a first workshop on industrial resource efficiency held in Amman in 2013, was designed to share international good practices on Green ...

The Stockholm Convention selects a project of SCP/RAC to support green entrepreneurship in Algeria

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The committee of the Stockholm Convention set up to select projects submitted by its Regional Centers for the annual call of the "Small Grant Project" (a fund created by the government of Norway with the objective  to ...