Waste Management Technologies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Waste Management Technologies

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Regional dimension and cooperation; Energy and resources; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

As a context and and background of the project we may define that Turkey had “limited” progress in waste management field untill 2014. As”regular storing technique” used in waste management is a new practice in Turkey and for developpig countries as well. Awareness raising was needed about separating the waste according to its type not only in Turkey but developing countries. As well as the dissemination of EU legislation in the direction of integration was one of the objective in the scope of our project.
One of the objectives of our project was to evaluate Turkey’s experience and EU waste management legislation and technologies and to put one out in this direction. Thus we have defined as a main objective of the project, to reach elimination of imbalances in waste management between developed European countries and developing member countries and candidate countries. On the other hand, to create awareness and increase participation in the society about the waste management was one of our goals. In our project, by creating a training module, we have tried to close the gap in the context of waste management between developed countries and underdeveloped countries in Europe with the participation of people who are specialized in the area. On the other hand, it is planned to constitute one more training module based on integration to eliminate existing inequalities in the field of waste management. Thus it has been manageable to close the gap between disadvantaged countries and developed countries, provide stability in EU, provide integration, create new possibilities for the European investors, increase employment and ultimately create a more competitive environment.
Our local project partners were Kuşadası Municipality from Turkey and EKOVAR Group(replaced with Akademi Cevre) and our partner from European Countries were ITCL and BIOTRAN from Spain, Oradea University from Romania and MPS from France. For a closer inspection and identify of the EU’s waste management and technologies in the scope of the objectives of our project workshop takes place in France, Romania and Spain. WASTEMANPORT as a portal has been set to ease sharing of information and stabilize communication to carry our project to its purpose. All partners have been cooperated to create the training modules that examine over the EU waste management legislation and technologies and Turkey’s situation in the scope of the project to issue certificates to the participants. In the last month of our project we also organized a Final Conference in Kuşadası in order to raise the awareness of Waste Management in all fields with the participation of University, Public Entities, NGOs those are related to Waste Management.
As a result of the project, our association GEKSANDER members and all partners have more data and communication capacity about the waste management legislation and technologies. As a long term impact we can now define the results of project as prestige and innovations those will be obtained by our association and also the results will trigger the competition amongst other organizations in this Waste Management sector. With increasing competition in the sector employment opportunities will also increase in mid-term and long term. Our project will help boost of economics as well as in reducing the size of environmental pollution in the sector, thus the project results will try to mitigate also “Climate Change”.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131725 Eur

Project Coordinator

GERI KAZANIM SANAYICILERI DERNEGI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Kusadasi Belediyesi
• BIOTRAN GESTION DE RESIUDIOS
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN ORADEA
• ASSOCIATION POUR LA PROMOTION SOCIALE
• INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE CASTILLA Y LEON
• EKOVAR CEVRE GRUP GERI DONUSUM ATIK DEPOLAMA INS. TAAH. SAN. VE TIC. A.S.