Agri-food Waste Management for Sustainable bio-economy through Higher Education curricula and upskilling

"<< Objectives >>AGRIMA’s general objective is to foster HEIs’ capacity building for the green transition through innovative practices and HE curricula updating in agri-food waste management for the circular bioeconomy.The project addresses also:Sp.Obj.1:Advancing pedagogical methods for industrial agri-food waste valorisation based on business-academia synergies.Sp.Obj.2:Integrating citizen science in bio-economy-enhanced waste valorisation as a means of civic engagement and environmental advocacy.<< Implementation >>AGRIMA includes 30 activities that are grouped into 4 work packages (WPs):WP1:Project management (QA, communication, sustainability): 11 activities WP2:Innovation in teaching and learning: waste valorisation: 6 activitiesWP3:Business-academia innovation:4 activitiesWP4:Civic engagement and advocacy for sustainable waste valorisation: 9 activities.AGRIMA activities implement the EU goal ""Circular economy will make Europe cleaner and more competitive"" (EU, circular economy action plan,2020).<< Results >>By developing its activities in 4 partner countries (PT, GR, FR, RS), AGRIMA will produce:WP1: 10 project mng handbooks and reports.WP2: 1 inventory of pedagogical and learning practices (D1), 1 methodological framework (D2), 28 online lectures (D3), 4 laboratory experiments, an open access repository (D4), 1 summer camp.WP3: guidelines (D5), 4 workshops, 5 consultations, 1 summer camp.WP4: 8 citizen science projects (D6), 1 report (D7), 4 OA articles (D8), 4 consultations, 4 MEs."