DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME ON SANITATION

Urban waste recycling, 2nd edition 2012

Director of the Cooperation Project: Rossella Monti, Ph.D.

Didactic - Scientific Supervisors: Adelaide Pereira, Ph.D.

Tutors:

• Rossella Monti, Ph.D.
• Adelaide Pereira, Ph.D.
• Vittoria Riboni, BEng.
• Elisa Carantoni, BEng.
• Maria Cristina Ciancetta
• Ilaria Meggetto

The 2010 edition of HYDROAID's Distance Learning on "Urban Waste Recycling" was attended successfully by 88 participants. The participants to the E-Course have come from several different countries all over the world:

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Perù, Trinidad and Tobago, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Republic of Djibuti, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Nepal Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia.

We propose now the second edition of the E-course 2012, thanking the financial support of Compagnia di San Paolo. This edition is updated and the programme include: a picture on the legislation frame in the western countries in order to introduce the law instruments to manage a recycling process at a national scale; the life cycle assessment of a product in order to evaluate its impact on the environment and its potential for recycling; the main elements to set up an industrial plan; the managerial organisation of the process; the main steps for waste separation; the technical aspects for the valorisation of some specific wastes.

The Urban Waste Recycling technical course is recommended to technicians and managers of the developing and emerging countries to improve the capability of the local authorities in managing and governing the waste resources for the conservation of water and soil from pollution phenomena.

Participation is open to 85 professionals -with a technical educational background- from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Balkans and the Middle East.

This course is a complement to the courses of the Hydroaid's distance learning programme on Sanitation. Nevertheless the former students to the Hydroaid's course in Turin; to the distance learning "Technical Course on wastewater treatment and urban waste disposal" editions 2009 and 2010; to the distance learning "Gestao Integrada em Saneamento: Experiencia Italiana" edition 2009 are recommended to participate only if their job duties deal with the waste issue. This distance learning is in fact an in-depth course.

New participations of high-middle rank technicians and managers employed in cooperation projects or in the waste local utilities and in the governmental/Public environmental departments, is welcome.

The selection will be based on the application forms filled by the candidates and the required documents. Women's applications are taken in due consideration.

This course involves in the didactic activities the scientific & technical partners of the Association plus some leading Italian institutions and association in the field of environment governance, namely:
AIAT Association of Environmental and Planning Engineers,
ATOR Turin optimal district for the governance of waste,
CSI Piemonte Consortium for Information Systems of Piedmont Region,
FEDERAMBIENTE the association of all the Italian private and public istitutions working for the environment,
ITHACA Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action
SMAT Water Metropolitan Enterprise of Turin,
UNIVERSITY of SASSARI,
Province of Turin,
Piedmont Region.

The course is free of charge. Nevertheless, we ask for a serious commitment when enroll at the course so that your participation excludes the one of another. So please, evaluate carefully your interest and your possibilities (time, connection ability etc) to attend the on line activities.

DURATION: January 2nd through March 23rd 2012

LANGUAGE: The official languages of the didactic material are English, French, Spanish and Portoguese. The didactic management on the e-moodle platform will be in English.

Contacts:
hydroaid@hydroaid.it
tutor.sanitation@hydroaid.it

DEADLINE TO APPLY: December the 6^th, 2011
Before filling the application form read carefully the call for application