GIMED project (GIMED) has joined the International Women's Day 2022 (IWD2022), a worldwide campaign honoring women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements.

Better quality of crops, productivity growth, reduction of agricultural costs with the strategic project FruitFlyNet-ii, the focus is on the ecologically effective control of parasites in olive, peach, and citrus crops so widespread in Mediterranean countries. The experiments were initiated with the FruitFlyNet project, funded under the ENPI CBC MED 2007-2013 Program, through the monitoring of olive and fruit flies.

The municipality of Moukhtara located south of Beirut in Lebanon, and project partner of GreenBuilding, organized a workshop on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Moukhtara town and its Club House. The workshop took place on the 5th of February 2022

Tawfik al-Naboulsi (pictured on left) and Khoder Kahil (pictured on right) from the Lebanese University (UL) team in the

Bickfaya schools go green thanks to the new awareness campaign launched by Bickfaya Municipality in partnership with Lebanese ngo Arcenciel to promote proper sorting and composting habits in local students.

MedTOWN project is co-producing a new community of solid waste management system based on a circular economy model using a complementary currency (CC), in the municipality of Beitillo (District of Ramallah, Palestine). The local currency will work as an incentive to both encourage waste separation and as a mechanism to increase the economic capacity of vulnerable economic groups. 

The University of Patras is part of the DECOST consortium, and although they do not have a pilot located in Greece, their participation at the technical level has been very important to define the technical and logistical aspects of the implementation of the community composting pilots in Spain, Jordan, Palestine and Italy. For this reason, among others, Professor Yorgos Stephanedes from UPatras was invited by the Greek TV channel Tpress to talk about this and other projects in which they are involved.

“We offer free meals to disadvantaged people: we believe we must give back something to a territory that has been very generous to us. Our company can rely on a solid female presence. As for supplies we are very careful and choose local products.