- Project funded by the European Union through the Interreg NEXT MED Programme.
- Grant agreement ID: A_T_2.4_0393_MEDWISE
- Total project budget: 2,491,900.00€
- Start Date: 16/07/2025
- End Date: 15/07/2028
Project Brief:
The Mediterranean grapples with waste management issues, with most municipal waste ending up in landfills untreated. Organic waste, a major component and a valuable source of energy and nutrients, is often contaminated, rendering it inadequate for use. Although a circular economy is needed to address this, the region faces inconsistent variations in legislative, technical, and funding gaps that hinder the implementation of circular strategies.
In response to this context, the MedWISE project aims to accelerate the transition to a circular, resource-efficient economy within the region through proven-efficient solutions. The project will optimize organic resource management using two main strategies: enhancing cross-border testing of innovative technological resource efficiency solutions and increasing transnational knowledge sharing of technologies through a triple helix approach. Specifically, 3 types of innovations (industrial symbiosis, AI-powered sorting at the source, and decentralized composting) will be mapped and piloted, enhancing parallelisms between northern and southern contexts. The project relies on the participation of organizations from Italy, Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.
PARTNERS:
University of Catania (Italy)
Universitat de Vic, Universitat Central de Catalunya (Spain)
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Italy)
American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
EDAMA Association for Energy, Water, Environment (Jordan)
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi (Turkey)
Leaders International Organization (Palestine)