Students’ Master Theses Presentations

The project involved strong educational and capacity building component, therefore the research was completed by interdisciplinary team of senior researchers and MSc students of partner universities. Eight MSc theses were prepared in the framework of the project, addressing waste management systems comparison, technical planning of waste transportation system and treatment facilities in Case Study Regions, environmental/economic/social/technical assessment of future WM scenarios, communication and social issues in the waste management.

Workshop at Sardinia

The sixteenth edition of the Sardinia Symposium, organized by the IWWG – International Waste Working Group, was held in Forte Village, Santa Margherita di Pula (Cagliari) Italy, from October 2nd to October 6th, 2017.

Workshop “Waste management in transient countries: from socialistic to market economies”, 5th of October 2017

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Project meeting and excursion, Dresden

Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, 2nd – 3rd March, 2017:

Project partner TU Dresden hosted WaTra project meeting and organised excursion to the Biological Mechanical Treatment Facility Dresden (Stadtreinigung Dresden GmbH) and Sorting Facility Dresden (Company Veolia Umweltservice Ost GmbH).

Kick-off meeting of the project WaTra

Vienna, BOKU University, 2nd – 4th March, 2016:

Kick-off meeting of the project WaTra – “Waste management in transition economies”.  BOKU together with universities from Ukraine, Belarus and Germany will analyse lessons learned from the last 25 years and work out the roadmaps for development of sustainable waste management in the model regions of Belarus and Ukraine based on best practices experiences of post-socialistic transition economies.