Sharing knowledge and learning by doing: two key words for Cynthia Zouein Helou of Human Environmental Association for Development in Lebanon, taking part in the training session in Manfredonia “Monitoring Marine Litter in Environment and Biodiversity”, lead by University of Siena.

For a Litter Free Mediterranean

The spirit of cooperation of Plastic Busters CAP project inspires Ali Badreddine of Tyre Coast Nature Reserve, Lebanon taking part in the training session in Manfredonia “Monitoring Marine Litter in Environment and Biodiversity”, lead by University of Siena. He is so happy to be part of this community for the health of Mediterranean sea.

For a Litter Free Mediterranean

Plastic Busters CAP National Training on marine litter monitoring and mitigation measures in Bizerte, Tunisia on 2/3 Novembre 2022. 

If we join forces from the south to the north of the Mediterranean and we share common solutions for the marine litter monitoring and mitigation measures, we can reach excellent results.

For a Litter Free Mediterranean

SIRCLES partners from Italy, Lebanon, Tunisia, Spain and Greece met in Tunisia in June 2022 to hold the first meeting of the Capitalization Board in the presence of the mayor of Bizerte and ENI CBC MED representative Ms. Samira Rafrafi. The discussions were around biowaste management and circular economy strategies with a focus on youth NEETs (Not in Employment,Education and Training) and women and providing them with the necessary skillsets and preparing them to be involved in the community.

In this video, you will discover how SIRCLES project permits the implementation of a community compost facility in Vila-seca, Catalonia.

Through its local partner, FITEI, they trained people who were looking for a job and are now employed to run the compost site. 

Highlights of the #biowaste management training in Lebanon, implemented by the Rene Moawad Foundation under SIRCLES project. As part of the project, the Rene Moawad Foundation is equipping a composting facility in Hbaline, north of Beirut, where the trainees had the chance to visit and put the knowledge they received into practice.

In this video, Mrs Josette Moawad from René Moawad Foundation, Lebanese partner of SIRCLES project, explains what has been done to raise awareness, train and employ young people in promoting and applying biowaste management with the collaboration of restaurants, hotels and farmers in the disctrict of Byblos in the north of Lebanon. 

Malak Rammal, a 21 years old Speech Therapist in Lebanon.

As many Lebanese residents, Malak and her family searched for means to sustain in challenging living conditions and came up with a brilliant idea of producing dairy products that can be preserved outside the fridge, thus endure the electricity shortage and save the energy consumption for both the producer and the consumer.

In this video we show you the "Guests House" modelled with H-BIM technology (Historic Building Information Modelling). This heritage building, located in Al-Karak (Jordan), is one of the 9 pilot buildings of the BEEP project in which an innovative methodology is proposed to plan an energy efficient renovation, without undermining the heritage value of these buildings.

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