PartnersThe partners that carried out the Waste Solutions - European Urban Waste Management Cluster Project (EUWMC) are listed here. Click on a name or scroll down to read more about them:
BRGM - Bureau de Recherche Géologiques et Minières
BRGM is a French Public Institution responsible for mobilising the Earth Sciences in the sustainable management of natural resources and the subsurface domain. It contributes advice and expert assessments to the Government and its decentralised departments, to local authorities and to national agencies and other public bodies for defining and implementing their policies. It also aids companies that contribute to these policies. BRGM research and development programmes support innovation and work towards advancing the Earth Sciences in strategic areas, both nationally and internationally.
www.brgm.fr
Città delle Langhe
Città delle Langhe is a consortium constituted in 1996 and formed by 39 small and average size enterprises and 11 small municipalities concentrated in the same territory. The aim is to cooperate with the goal of improving quality of life through a process that goes from the introduction of scientific and technological innovations, to the protection and improvement of local potentials, to the exchange of experiences and methods between various areas and territories.
The plans promoted from Città delle Langhe have sustainable development as a common point of philosophy, helping understanding on issues such as integration of biotechnologies, formative processes, territorial services, environmental economy. The current projects are about ecology, waste management and disposal, water recovery, services for the development of territory, improvement of communication and transport, formation and sensitisation to topics about ecology and environment.
www.cittadellelanghe.it
iC consulenten ZT GmbH
iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GmbH is one of the leading Austrian Consulting firms with activities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The company employs a permanent staff of more than 100 engineers, economists, technicians and other specialists. Following an interdisciplinary approach iC services typically incorporate engineering, environmental, contractual, economical and financial aspects.
In the Environmental Sector iC consulenten provides the following services:  | Development of industrial/municipal renewable energy supply systems
| | Identification and analysis of industrial green house gas emissions
| | Definition of emission trading potentials
| | Water and waste water management
| | Environmental impact assessment
| | Environmental audits
| | Environmental due diligence
| | Evaluation of industrial safety and health standards related to working environment
| | Elaboration and implementation of waste management concepts
| | Landfill design and remediation |
www.ic-group.at
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, European Secretariat
ICLEI is, first, a growing and worldwide Association of Local Governments dedicated to sustainable development; second, a Movement of Local Governments; and, third, an effective sustainability and environmental Agency. Focus themes include Urban Governance & Local Agenda 21; Sustainable Procurement; Sustainability Management; and Climate & Air. Activities comprise Campaigns & Programmes; Projects; Events & Networking; Publications & Information; Tools; Training & Consulting; Research & Piloting; and Advocacy.
Almost 200 European members are served by the ICLEI European Secretariat, which co-ordinates all ICLEI's European activities. The ICLEI European Secretariat has been hosted since 1992 by the member city Freiburg, Germany.
www.iclei-europe.org
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut WAR, Fachgebiet Abfalltechnik
Institute of Water Supply and Groundwater Protection, Wastewater Technology, Waste Management, Industrial Material Cycles, Environmental and Spatial Planning (Institut WAR), Darmstadt, Germany.
The institute WAR comprises five fields of specialisation focused on environmental technology and environmental management.
Research interests and expertise of Waste Management group lie in the fields of: | Chemical-physical, biological and thermal waste treatment technologies
| | Waste management planning
| | Environmental Impact Analysis
| | Environmentally sound products design,
| | Life Cycle Assessment for waste management
| | Landfilling technologies
| | Measuring techniques
| | Flue gas cleaning techniques from biological waste treatment facilities |
www.tu-darmstadt.de
Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Abfallwirtschaft und Altlasten
Founded in 1828, Dresden University of Technology is among Germany's oldest universities of technology. As one of its rather new institutions, the Institute for Waste Management and Contaminated Sites Treatment (IWMS) has been created in 1995 to facilitate the approach to a wide area of problems in environmental science thru the combination of research topics in waste management, environmental protection and in systems analysis. The institute’s director, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. B. Bilitewski is professionally engaged in waste management for 30 years now. In spite of its young age the institute already has a large record of research activities performed both at national and international level and led a number of EU and governmentally supported projects covering in particular subjects related to the analysis and management of environmentally relevant risks and waste streams and their minimisation and treatment by different technical and policy measures. Connected thru the university to one of the largest libraries, the institute has access to research results obtained in Germany and in the entire world.
www.tu-dresden.de/fghhiaa/english/English_Index.htm
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