8th MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND URBAN MINING
21-23 MAY 2025 / PROCIDA, Naples, Italy

Promoting bodies
(in progress)

  • ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

    ENEA is the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public body aimed at research, technological innovation and the provision of advanced services to enterprises, public administration and citizens in the sectors of energy, the environment and sustainable economic development. Since its foundationin the 1960s, its strengths have been applied research, technology transfer and technical-scientific support to companies, associations, territories, central and local administrations: for this reason - unlike other research institutions - the Agency depends on the Ministry of Economic Development. Among the emerging issues, ENEA supports the productive system as well as public authorities (Ministry of environment and Ministry of economic development in particular) in the transition towards the circular economy and the resource efficiency.
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  • EPHA - European Public Health Alliance
    The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) is an international not-for-profit association established in Belgium in 1993. Our mission is to advocate for the protection and improvement of public health in Europe, both via health policies and across all other relevant policy areas that have an impact on health. EPHA serves as a change agent by facilitating the participation of our diverse member organisations, that include civil society organisations, groups of health professionals and public health actors. EPHA collates these perspectives from the many sectors its members represent and contributes them to European policy dialogues. Since its foundation, EPHA has grown into the EU’s largest civil society platform of organisations working together to protect and improve public health in Europe.
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  • FEAD - European Waste Management Association
    FEAD is the European Waste Management Association that represents the private waste management and resource industry across Europe. Their members are national waste management associations covering 19 countries in Europe, including Norway and the UK. They represent about 3,000 companies with activities in all forms of waste management. FEAD's objective is to advocate for a better regulatory framework for the waste management sector, to achieve the best economic and environmental outcomes, and to strengthen the circular economy in Europe.
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  • IWMSA - Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa

    The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) is a multi-disciplinary non-profit association that is committed to supporting professional waste management practices. The organisation comprises of voluntary members who promote environmentally acceptable, cost effective and appropriate waste management practices. IWMSA strive towards the protection of the environment and people of southern Africa from the adverse effects of poor waste management by supporting sustainable best practical environmental options. The Institute contribute to the improvement of waste management standards and legislation, support international, national and regional trends in best environmental practices; promote the science and technology of waste management and practice affordable cost effective management of waste. Education and training in the realm of effective and efficient waste management is also a key focus of the organisation.
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  • CEWMS - Circular Economy, Waste, Materials and Sustainability

    The CEWMS Study Center – Circular Economy, Waste, Materials and Sustainability is a interdepartmental center of the University of Padova (IT) that involves more than 67 professors and researchers, belonging to different departments of the University (Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Technique and Management of Industrial Systems, Biology, Chemical Sciences, Public, International and Community Law, Economic and Business Sciences, Psychology of Development and Socialization, Geosciences, Territory and Agro-forestry Systems). The study center contributes to develop interdisciplinary research and create new synergies, becoming a reference point for the implementation of circular economy practices.
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  • GITISA - Italian Group of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering

    The Italian Group of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering (GITISA) is the Association of professors in the scientific disciplinary sector of Sanitary-Environmental Engineering from over 25 Italian universities. The aim of the association is to promote and coordinate both teaching and research activities. To this end, it carries out its activity through working groups, assemblies and meetings, collaborating in the organization of conferences, symposiums, summer schools, also jointly with other associations and scientific bodies, both national and international.
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  • AIAT - Italian Association of Environmental and Planning Engineers
    AIAT - Association of Environmental and Planning Engineers, is a no-profit organisation established in 1999 to represent graduated and students in Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Then, in 2009, the representation has been extended at a national level. AIAT's main objective is the promotion of the role of the environmental engineer, a professional capable of tackling complex environmental issues with an integrated approach. Since 2003, AIAT is a member of EFAEP, and collaborated with it at the development of ENEP - European Network of Environmental Professionals, a web-portal collecting thousands of profiles of European environmental professionals. A second objective of AIAT, equally important, is to foster the exchange of information among the members, about 600 and active in many fields of expertise: pollution remediation and soil protection, energy management, climate changes, waste management, environmental monitoring, Environmental Management Systems, transports planning and many more.
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