SIRCLES partners from Italy, Lebanon, Tunisia, Spain and Greece met in Tunisia in June 2022 to hold the first meeting of the Capitalization Board in the presence of the mayor of Bizerte and ENI CBC MED representative Ms. Samira Rafrafi. The discussions were around biowaste management and circular economy strategies with a focus on youth NEETs (Not in Employment,Education and Training) and women and providing them with the necessary skillsets and preparing them to be involved in the community.

Meet Moushira Elamrawy, bringing sustainability into the traditional sectors by creating Bio-textiles(non-woven textiles) made from different Egyptian agro waste fibres.

In this video, you will discover how SIRCLES project permits the implementation of a community compost facility in Vila-seca, Catalonia.

Through its local partner, FITEI, they trained people who were looking for a job and are now employed to run the compost site. 

Highlights of the #biowaste management training in Lebanon, implemented by the Rene Moawad Foundation under SIRCLES project. As part of the project, the Rene Moawad Foundation is equipping a composting facility in Hbaline, north of Beirut, where the trainees had the chance to visit and put the knowledge they received into practice.

In this video, Mrs Josette Moawad from René Moawad Foundation, Lebanese partner of SIRCLES project, explains what has been done to raise awareness, train and employ young people in promoting and applying biowaste management with the collaboration of restaurants, hotels and farmers in the disctrict of Byblos in the north of Lebanon. 

As planned within the TEC-MED project, this international workshop entitled “TEC-MED project: Preliminary findings from the pilot phase and the social capitalization” with stakeholders is the 4th and last one within the TEC-MED project and the 5th one in TEC-MED project. The International Workshops are organized with the collaboration of stakeholders from TEC-MED partner country institutions for the care of dependent elderly and/or at risk of social exclusion. Different aspects of the project are shared between participants and further strengthen capitalizing on the networking potential.

In November 2022, the SME4SMARTCITIES 

In its 3-year of activities, MoreThanAJob has been supporting the development of initiatives to promote the social and labour inclusion of each citizen, in particular from the most vulnerable groups.

We started our journey at the end of 2019, few months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, we have been working to continuously foster the dialogue and collaboration among social economy actors and public administrations to promote the social and labour inclusion of vulnerable groups in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece and Italy.