South East Asia-Europe Network for building training and education capacities in Plastic Recycling in Laos and Vietnam with emphasis on quality, safety and resource efficiency Erasmus Project

Project Title

South East Asia-Europe Network for building training and education capacities in Plastic Recycling in Laos and Vietnam with emphasis on quality, safety and resource efficiency

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Plastic is a material stream showing a quick growth in South East Asia. To some extent the material stream ends up in recycling, however the established practices with informal collection and informal treatment lead to low quality products, and rises concern on Occupation Health & Safety issues as well as potential pollution to the environment and residents.The project SEA-PLASTIC-EDU aims at improving the dialogue between research and practice by establishing regional training hubs that serve as knowledge hub and interface. By this the quality of education is enhanced and employability is improved, both at University level and CPD-level. Further the training hubs support sustainable entrepreneurship considering all technical, environmental and social aspects of plastic recycling, that is required to deal with increasing quantities of plastics in an environmentally safe and sound manner. These goals are reached by:• Development of demand driven educational products with focus on plastic waste recycling, waste management & entrepreneurial skills. For this purpose, at academic education 3 new modules and modifications for 20 modules in the Bachelor and Master level have been done. For CPD training, three modules have been developed and implemented• Tackling cross cutting topics such as integrating informal collectors and related supportive organisations to address health, safety and socio-economic issues• Development of national University-Enterprise collaboration and trainings hubs for plastic waste recycling in Laos and VietnamBenefit from the project mainly will be provided through an improved value chain in recycling plastic waste. This creates local jobs; at the same time the pollution load is mitigated. Higher education institutions in South East Asia have included waste management and plastic recycling into their education programmes. The industrial partners use the results from the developed CPD products in their training activities. A focal point of these trainings will be the new established Collaboration and Training Hubs.

Project Website

http://plastic-edu.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 989043 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN & Country: AT

Project Partners

• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS
• GREEN ENVIRONMENT IMPORT EXPORT SOLE CO LTD
• HO CHI MINH UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY
• CONG TY TNHH MOT THANH VIEN MOI TRUONG DO THI THANH PHO HO CHI MINH
• CONG TY TNHH TRUNG TAM SAN XUAT SACH VIET NAM
• CONG TY TNHH DA GIAY 26.3 KT
• AALBORG UNIVERSITET