Sustainable Solid WAste management and Policies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable Solid WAste management and Policies

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Asia is, by far, the continent which has registered the steepest growth in population and goods consumption in the last decades. It is a matter of fact that, however – similarly as other part of the World – the capability of the socio-economic system to address the need to dispose the corresponding generated waste is not as much rapid.The problem connected to the lack of dedicated professionals for solid waste management is pressing in many Asian countries and, in this sense, creating dedicated workforce and building knowledge by fostering specialization can be achieved only if specialised courses are offered at different educational levels and if targeted capacity building, governance models, educational and training programmes are conducted. New academic and TVET educational products (the latter to be addressed to informal workers as well) on sustainable solid waste management, health and environmental risks related to improper waste treatment, and business operation will encounter the needs of teachers and trainers, therefore indirectly of their students and trainees, educating them on the most critical areas of waste management. In this framework, the project will also provide them with the chance of a more concrete and practical experience in the Training Hubs to be established in during the SWAP Project.Therefore, the general aim of SWAP project is to contribute and support in building capacity at tertiary level as well as to support training addressed to the vulnerable group of informal waste practitioners. In this sense, the project has the purpose of improving entrepreneurship as well as the employability of university graduates of the HEIs from Southeast Asia in the sector of sustainable solid waste management, thanks to a close cooperation among all the actors of the “Quadruple-helix”. Thanks to this holistic structure, SWAP Project will pave the way to support relevant policies, providing with high quality educational products, strategies and tools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 942350 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• EUROTRAINING EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION
• TRUONG DAI HOC NONG LAM – DAI HOC HUE
• ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
• UNIVERSITY OF HENG SAMRIN THBONGKHMUM
• CAMBODIAN EDUCATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION
• CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY
• MAEJO UNIVERSITY