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Recently, WE&B participated in the presentation of the results in a form of White Paper of the Interreg Med Green Growth Community in Brussels the 19th- 20th of September 2019, at the European Committee of the Regions. After three years of study, analysis and pilots, 150 actors have come together to reflect upon these results. […]

On the 11th and 12thApril 2019, the HOUSEFUL project held its 12-month progress meeting with the entire consortium of project partners. The attendees were: LEITAT (as project coordinator), WE&B ITEC, CARTIF, AIGUASOL, SCCL LGI, Turntoo, Housing Europe, ICONS and ALCN. On the first day of the two day meeting, the project partners had the opportunity [...]

Given the need to reflect on the efficient use of resources, it is essential to configure social activities under the circular economy concepts. The circular economy concept aims to produce goods and services while limiting the environmental impact, and reducing the consumption of raw materials, water and energy sources in all stages of the life [...]

2018 has been another fantastic year at WE&B, in our little way we have made small ripples in the ocean of sustainable development. Here we list some of our highlights from 2018: Near the start of the year, we were selected to form part of Valles Circular (http://www.vallescircular.com) The “Vallès Circular” is a territorial initiative shared […]

From 24 to 25 June 2018, WE&B participated in the kick-off meeting of the HOUSEFUL project (funded by the H2020 program of the European Commission). The meeting was held at Leitat, Terrassa (Barcelona). The Houseful project: Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects, focuses on implementing circular economy solutions in the rehabilitation of housing buildings. [...]

One of the Project demonstration sites of the Run4Life Project is in Helsingborg (Sweden). This DEMO-SITE is within the framework of the larger local project H+. The project partners met here to discuss the progress after the first year of the project. Moreover, from WE&B’s perspective, as leaders of the task dealing with social perception […]

We are very proud to announce that WE&B has been chosen to form part of the “Valles Circular”. The "Vallès Circular" is a territorial initiative shared between administrations, social, environmental and economic entities with the objective of promoting the circular economy in the Vallès Occidental in Cataluña, Spain and to develop new ways of production [...]

On the 30th and 31st of January 2018, WE&B together with the project partner El Centro del Agua para America Latina y el Caribe participated together with COMO VAMOS LA PAZ to close the WaterClima LAC project in the pilot area, La Paz, Mexico. As part of the closing activities, WE&B run a workshop on […]

At the end of November the RUN4Life project held its 6-monthly consortium meeting, http://run4life-project.eu,  in Vigo, Spain. All partners provided updates on the progress and work plans for the coming months. In addition, there were several invited project advisors who provided input into the project progress. The meeting location was in the Zona Franca in Vigo […]

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2017 Looking back on 2017, it’s been quite an exciting year at WE&B, full of new adventures, experiences and results in social economic activities in the water, and environmental sectors. Here are few highlights:   We investigated the reasons for knowledge fragmentation in water and climate actions between Africa and the EU and […]