Open call for companies to apply for CIRCULAR TRANSITION SUPPORT
CIRCULAR ECONOMY Beacons represent a circular innovation in the Balkan eco-system built around expertise and high-quality implementation. CE BEACONS’ main orientation for the coming years is – systemic business support.
What do we search for?
We search for companies that have recognized mainly (excess) material or energy-related challenges in their processes, business systems, and/or supply chains. We search for companies that do not know how their products end up after being disposed of and assess if they could still re-use the products, components, or materials for the same or other purposes. We also search for companies that are willing to innovate and differentiate in the market, conducting business responsibly following the principles of a carbon-neutral circular economy. Furthermore, we see that we can help innovative companies or organizations that have been recognized as a waste/material-related gap in the market and have an almost go-to-market solution. Finally, we would like to meet companies that are ready to co-invest in the process with 25% of the total cost of the process (approximated 2,000-5,000 €, depending on the complexity of the challenge). This process should be finalized by the end of 2022.
What do we offer?
We offer answers to the following questions:
• Where to start in CE transition?
• What do you need to know about your value chain to benchmark your CE position?
• What and how should you use the tools to navigate through the CE transition/transformation?
• What do you need to change in the business (from the lifecycle perspective) to achieve a future-fit business?
• What capacities should you build to sustain changes?
• What do I have to take care of from the external environment to successfully market new products or services?
• What would be the first pilot initiative I could do to become more circular in a systemic way?
• What is my 5-10 year prospect in circular development?
We finally offer you a place in our network where cutting-edge technologies, novel solutions, and the latest insights related to circular economy innovation will pass through.
All this is designed to systemically help you in the transition towards a carbon-neutral circular business.
Find more information and a link to apply in the PDF file below by 02.09.2022, 17:00 CEST.
OPEN CALL: Urban Advisors for Spatial Justice (International Training for Urban Advisors in Vienna September 7-9th 2022)
About the Project:
The overall goal of the ‘Spatial Justice’ is to engage, empower and enable youth, to lead sustainable actions in the process of transformation of peripheral areas into liveable areas through sharing good practices, innovative tools, and methods. Through the consortium of 6 partners from 5 countries in Western Balkans and EU, there will be mediums and opportunities to exchange experiences and knowledge, and on a longer term, create grounds for future initiatives and collaborations. The indicated set of activities are tailored to deliver a concrete impact from the perspective of youth workers, urban advisors as well as youths from peripheral areas for the purposes of ensuring them a greater inclusion in the informal settlement upgrading process through the development of new innovative urban games.
The project aims to identify young professionals in each country that through a consistent engagement, will become key actors in their local environments, become URBAN ADVISORS. Each organization of the consortium will select 4 urban advisors, who will be part of the entire process. Urban Advisors from each country will be engaged in exchanging good practices from program countries in the urban design, revitalization of peripheral areas, advocacy, and participation for peripheral revitalization. The methodology used during the training events will be non-formal training method, study visit, exchange of best practices.
The main objectives are:
- Development of high-quality profiles of urban advisors with the acquisition of capacities to engage a transversal audience of targets (young people living in peripheral areas) in a differentiated programme practice providing urban enhancement methods and the development of skills with a transversal relevance in all dimensions of life.
- Acquisition of practical experience and measurable results in the use of urban gamification as a tool of work with young people.
- Motivation to cooperate with the consortium in further follow-up of the project at the local or European levels.
More on International Training Course
The journey of these Urban Advisors will start by an international training taking place in Vienna, aiming at empowering youth workers, potential urban advisors with competencies related to empowering and engaging rural youth in scaling up upgrading of peripheral areas through bottom-up process.
During the international event, the young urban advisors will provide additional inputs on the design of the gamification tool. They will be the coaches that will lead the activities involving youth in suburban and peripheral areas. The international training will be a 3 full day program, taking place on September 6-10th, 2022 (including travelling days), which will be organized by Wonderland – Platform for European Architecture.
Costs of travel and full board for 4 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina will be covered by REIC, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants are responsible for covering the costs of necessary documents following the Covid-19 restrictions.
More detailed information on the activities and training format, you may find in the document attached:
Application
Urban Advisors must be between 18 and 30 years old, interested in urban design and revitalization for peripheral areas and possibly with previous experience in the world of urban. Youth workers/urban advisors will be empowered with competencies related to empowering and engaging rural youth in scaling up upgrading of peripheral areas through bottom-up process. The training is building on Europe’s core values of equality, sustainability and inclusivity.
- A motivation letter, not exceeding 500 words. This must include a clear indication of experience relevant to the topic of the training school; provide a rationale of why you are interested in the training school and how you envisage the training school contributing to your learning and research objectives.
- A short CV (2 pages max).
Send your application to info@reic.org.ba.
Spatial Justice Project - Case Studies
To address the needs of the social groups the project “Spatial Justice” aims to gather in a period of 24 months, with 6 partners from EU and Western Balkan countries, information on good practices and to develop tools to address the local challenges. The overall goal of the project is engaging, empowering and enabling youth, to lead sustainable actions in the process of transformation of peripheral areas into liveable areas through sharing good practices, innovative tools, and methods.
In the scope of the project, partners conducted research resulting in various case studies and all of them are available at the www.spatialjustice.eu web site and direct LINK.
The closure of EduFootprint PLUS
Today we are closing our 18 months long project, that was implemented under Interreg MED Programme, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, and implemented in the cooperation with pur project partners:
Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ambiente Italia srl, Italy
Local Energy Agency of Gorenjska, Slovenia
CONSORTIUM OLTREPÓ MANTOVANO, Italy
Regional Energy Agency North, Croatia.
The main aim of the project was to enhance the capacity of public authorities to calculate environmental footprint of activities in its buildings. This was done by using simplified life cycle approach identifying significant impact areas, and then improve users’ behaviours to reduce the overall footprint, through the transferring and capitalisation of EduFootprint project’s final products: calculator and APP.
REIC was responsible for fostering of EduFootprint methodology and approach at regional level, to cover territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania, engaging APs from each country: Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency SERDA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, City of Mostar from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Municipality of Tirana from Albania, Old Royal Capital Cetinje from Montenegro. REIC organized webinars for APs in order to promote the project, to present the methodology and tools and foster its application at regional level. APs were involved in Final Conference in Italy, declaring the support to EduFootprint project through MoU signatory.
Not only the APS from region were involved in the project activities implementation, but the preliminary analyses of receivers’ contests and needs included survey which has been conducted in BiH, Montenegro and Albania, thus providing data to cover larger territory.
Institute of Blood Transfusion Sarajevo was the pilot building for testing the tools and applying the methodology. After the data collection, the calculator was completed; based on the results and in cooperation with the Institute representative the Improvement plan was produced. The complete methodology and the results of tools application were shared during the final conference in Mantova and final project presentation in Sarajevo, in June 2022.The representatives of the pilot building has been participating in the event in Sarajevo and further steps, after project closure has been agreed.
In order to involve larger audience, all material produced during the project: calculator, app, improvement plan, edu-kit, 15 video pills and 4 webinars, were translated to Bosnian and distributed among the audience. It will be also available through REIC pages. Considering the fact that REIC is educational and informational center, which organizes events and summer-schools tackling the same issues, we see a lot of opportunities to share the project results and introduce the tools to wider audience in future.
The final project presentation event, held in Sarajevo on June 10th 2022, was organized additionally to involve larger audience, targeting at public institution representatives, dealing with a building’s efficiency and footprint. The event attended representatives of 17 institutions, and resulted in arrangement of future presentation of the project within the institutions and potential future cooperation. The participation of the PPs in the event added a special significance.
REIC will continue to work on fostering the EduFootprint approach and methodology even beyond the end of the project, since it will contribute to our mission and promotion of good practices in the field of sustainable development.
On this occasion, we would like to thank to Interreg MED to make it possible, to all of our project partners for excellent cooperation during this challenging period, to all of associated project partners for the support their provided, as well as to all of the public and local authorities that took a part in the project.
Zeleni hidrogen- važan element klimatski neutralne ekonomije i energetske nezavnosti Evrope
Više o Zelenom hidrogenu i njegovoj ulozi u postizanju klimatske neutralne ekonomije i energetski nezavisne Evrope pročitajte u analizi:
CEBB POZIV ZA KOMPANIJE
Regionalni centar za obrazovanje i informisanje iz održivog razvoja za Jugoistočnu Evropu – REIC i ove godine objavljuje poziv za privatne kompanije da učestvuju u međunarodnom projektu Circular Economy Beacons (CE BEACONS).
Regionalni centar za obrazovanje i informisanje iz održivog razvoja za Jugoistočnu Evropu – REIC je početkom 2021. godine postao sedmi član konzorcija koji od 2020. godine provodi međunarodni projekat Circular Economy Beacons (CE BEACONS). Projekat ima za cilj kreiranje jedinstvenog ekosistema koji će podržati inovacije i implementaciju cirkularne ekonomije. Osnovna ideja ovog projekta jeste stvaranje fizičkog prostora koji će omogućiti inovatorima da kreiraju, testiraju i komercijalizuju eko-inovacije i na taj način pomognu malim i srednjim preduzećima da implementiraju cirkularni model poslovanja. Osnovni cilj projekta jeste implementacija cirkularnih inovacija u mala i srednja preduzeća. S tim u vezi je kroz projekat previđeno da se izvrši procjena nivoa „cirkularnosti“ kompanije i ovom prilikom pozivamo Vas da se pridružite projektu na sljedeći način:
Consortium members of the Spatial Justice Erasmus + project
We are proud to present the Consortium members of the Spatial Justice Erasmus + project 1/6: Project Management and Coordination of the Project belongs to the #Wonderland platform for European architecture - European network of architects and urban and regional planners.
The network is focused on sustainable and inclusive topics in regeneration and development process’. Social cohesion, justice, accessibility and sustainability are core values, and the organization has numerous board members who are experts for various promising projects in Europe (Horizon, Creative Europe, Urbact, Interreg, UIA, Erasmus+, Cost Actions and New European Bauhaus).
The Austrian based organization’s aim is to foster exchange through different formats. Since the beginning, Wonderland has focused on exchange between professionals and citizens, how the vacant spaces can be a resource for the growing and changing cities and their challenges, while empowering grassroots initiative to have a sustainable impact on their built environment.
All about the partners read at the LINK
Radionica za mlade: Poziv za učešće
„Ublažavanje KLimatskih promjena I Zaštita Zraka u Bosni i Hercegovini – UKLIZZ“
Regionalni centar za obrazovanje i informisanje iz održivog razvoja za Jugoistočnu Evropu – REIC u saradnji sa Fondacijom Konrad Adenauer poziva studente završnih godina master studija i mlade stručnjake u oblasti okoliša, klimatskih promjena i energije da se prijave za učešće na dvodnevnoj radionici u okviru projekta „Ublažavanje KLimatskih promjena I Zaštita Zraka u Bosni i Hercegovini – UKLIZZ“. Cilj projekta je zagovaranje povezivanja pristupa rješavanju problematike zagađenosti zraka u Bosni i Hercegovini sa aktivnostima na ublažavanju klimatskih promjena. Učesnicima radionice će se prezentovati povezanost ove dvije problematike u našoj zemlji i načini kako da se situacija unaprijedi kreiranjem jedinstvenog pristupa. Polaznici će kroz praktični rad u grupama raditi na kreiranju mjera i mehanizama koji adresiraju zagađenost zraka i ublažavanje klimatskih promjena istovremeno.
U sklopu projekta predviđene su tri radionice koje će se održati prema slijedećem rasporedu:
- 21-22. mart 2022., Etno selo "Čardaci" (Vitez)
- 28-29. mart 2022., Hotel „Terme Ozren“ (Petrovo)
- 31. mart - 1. april 2022., Etno selo "Čardaci" (Vitez)
Ciljne grupe i profil učesnika:
- Studenti završnih godina master studija tehničkih i prirodno-matematičkih fakulteta
- Mladi aktivisti lokanih nevladinih organizacija i političkih partija
- Uposlenici javnog i privatnog sektora, mladi koji su društveno angažovani ili uključeni u istraživački rad u oblasti okoliša, klimatskih promjena i energije.
Starosna granica učesnika je od 18 do 35 godina. Ukupan broj učesnika po radionici je 20.
Teme koje će se obraditi kroz radionice:
- Klimatske promjene,
- Uzroci i izvori zagađivanja zraka,
- Energetska tranzicija u Evropskoj uniji i Bosni i Hercegovini,
- Upravljanje kvalitetom zraka na lokalnom nivou,
- EU Green Deal i Zelena agenda za Zapadni Balkan.
Radionice za mlade će trajati po dva dana. Smještaj na bazi punog pansiona, i prijevoz po potrebi, su obezbijeđeni od strane organizatora. Za učešće u radionicama potrebno je ispuniti prijavnicu najkasnije do 14. marta 2022. godine. Broj mjesta je ograničen pa vas molimo da prijavnicu ispunite što prije (link za prijavu: https://forms.gle/9nUHvxRNuC2PvFYs5). Učešće na radionicama je besplatno. Svi učesnici će dobiti certifikat o učešću na radionici.
U cilju blagovremene pripreme za ove edukativne događaje budite slobodni da nas kontaktirate putem e-mail adrese a.hanjalic@reic.org.ba ili na broj 033/613 193.
INVITATION: WEBINAR
“Improvement of energy and resource management in public building using EduFootprint Plus methodology” February 10th, 2022 13:00 – 16:00
We would like to invite You to the webinar: "Improvement of energy and resource management in public buildings through the EduFootprint Plus methodology", which is organized by REIC and will be held on February 10th 2022, in the period from 13:00 to 16:00,. During the webinar the following topics will be presented:
• EduFootprint Plus project
• Life cycle assessment methodology and OEF (Organization Environmental Footprint) methods
• EduFootprint tools: calculator and application
• Development of an improvement plan
The main goal of the EduFootprint Plus project is to enable the calculation of the environmental footprint of all activities that take place in public buildings. This will be achieved by using a simplified life cycle assessment method, which identifies significant areas of impact, and then improving users’ behavior to reduce the overall footprint, through the transfer and capitalization of EduFootprint Plus project final products: calculators and applications.
The webinar will transfer a complete set of tested tools and common parameters at the transnational level, which will be able to indicate a more realistic impact of activities taking place in public buildings on the environment, including its energy consumption, and thus the planning system (e-support system, including EduFootprint tools), to understand which activities and utilities have the most significant impacts and to better plan measures based on identified needs to improve energy management through education of users.
The webinar is intended for all managers and owners of public buildings, persons employed in the technical sector in administrative buildings, as well as all persons who are actively involved in energy efficiency projects and negative environmental impacts reduction.
Zoom Link:
When: Feb 10, 2022 13:00 Sarajevo, Skopje, Zagreb
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvc-ispjsjHdz4WzF69aJoE8AD3m9fuJw3
For any additional information or questions, feel free to contact:
e-mail: a.suvak@reic.org.ba
TRAINING COURSE: "Establish your own agro-farm"
PROJECT: “Empowering Youth through Agro-Entrepreneurship“
PLACE AND DATE: Durres (Albania) 1 - 7 March, 2022.
PARTICIPANTS: 24
COUNTRIES: Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria
LANGUAGE: The official language of the project is English
ABOUT THE PROJECT
EYAE project aims to empower youth towards innovative green agro-technologies and start up business creation as the main driver to achieve food security and employability in an environmental friendly way through NFE methods.
Our target group is the rural youths because we firmly believe that they are the future of the agricultural sector in participating countries.
Objectives of the project are to educate the youths and train them on sustainable agriculture and entrepreneurship, to promote and support Sustainable Agricultural Enterprises, to develop participant’s competences in planning non formal education and intercultural activities and promoting social inclusion of young people.
ABOUT THE TRAINING COURSE
Agenda: The TC will involve youth workers and leaders who participated in the first project TC, aiming to put the green skills developed in the first TC to practice through the creation of their own business plans in their own local communities. The trainers will share best practices and case studies for the young people to achieve practical solutions and knowledge on how to establish their own businesses and maneuver the labor market. Moreover, the young people will study eco-friendly diversified products through study visits to raise the effectiveness.
Methodology: Non Formal Education methods comprising Ice-Breakers, Team Building activities, Roundtables, Simulations, Workshops, Case-Studies, Team-work aimed at producing a specific section of the “Empowering Youth through Agro- Entrepreneurship” Manual. The manual will contain business models in organic agriculture and case studies realized by the participants.
Participant profile:
- Aged between 18-35
- Must be interested and motivated about the project topic
- Must have supplementary knowledge about agriculture, environmental management, sustainability or other related fields
- Above average level of English language
ABOUT THE ACCOMMODATION
HOSTEL DURRES
Address: Sheshi Liria, Durrës.
Phone number: +355 69 891 6810
Website: https://www.hosteldurres.com/
Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/hosteldurres/
Email: hosteldurres@gmail.com
The training course activities will take place in Durrës city and its participants will be accommodated in the confortable Hostel Durrës. Hostel Durrës is a 1930 villa that was completely renovated in 2014. Its location in the heart of the city, at the main square, just across the Main Mosque is the perfect starting point to explore this beautiful city. On a bustling town square near bars and cafes, this relaxed hostel is an 8-minute walk from the 2nd-century Roman Amphitheatre of Durrës, 2 km from ferries at the Port of Durrës and 24 km from Tirana Airport. The dormitory rooms come with 4 or 6 bunk beds and a shared toilet. At Durres Hostel you will find a 24-hour front desk, a bar, a spacious garden and a terrace. Other facilities offered at the property include a shared lounge, a shared kitchen and luggage storage. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling.
USEFUL CONTACTS
Meivis Struga - Project Manager of ETMI
Phone Number: +355 692435302 (Whatsapp)
Email: mstruga@etmi-al.org
Ornest Saraci - Contact Person
Phone Number: +355 694768819 (Whatsapp)
Email: ornest.saraci@gmail.com