REUSE OF WASTED MATERIAS - COLLECTION OF BEST PRACTICES

Learners involved in the implementation of the project are here presenting the Best Practices related to the re-using of wasted materials like glass, metal, paper, wood, etc. Also, some Best Practices from the local and the wider community are being presented here as good examples that could stimulate people to get involved in the reuse of wasted materials, and also as material and tools useful for educational purposes in informal and non-formal edult education activities.
The Best Practices are (click on to open it):
1) "Corfu Recycling", "Clean up Greece" & "Elvian SA";
2) "Electro Cycle", "Give it as a Gift - Hariseto", "Junky Styling - Reconstructed Clothing";
3) Evgenia Evgenidou - "Decorative art objects out of scraps";
4) Stavros Giavasidis - "Making art out of construction, industry and natural materials";
5) Elsa Pakopoulou -"Recycling materials to Hats & Bags".

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO DECREASE THE VOLUME OF WASTED MATERIALS - THE EXAMPLES OF PAPER AND GLASS

Among the project's outcomes it is foreseen a research about specific wastes - choosen by each partner - so as to find innovative solutions that will decrease the volume of wasted materials originated by any industrial or urban activity.

On this regard, Epimorfotiki Kilkis sm llc asked for the support and the scientific collaboration of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia and more precisely the Ass. Prof. G. Skodras.

The first step was to choose the wasted material to work with. The materials chosen were the PAPER and the GLASS.

The results of the research were presened by Ass. Prof. G. Skodras during a workshop organized on purpose within the partners' meeting in Zwickau (DE) on 12th of December 2012.

To read the presentation ckick here.

International Exhibition Handbook

This handbook will present the implementation of this exhibition with impressions and feedback from the involved to offer everyone who was not able to participate the exhibition in Greece the opportunity to make up.

In the handbook you could find a detailed list of all exhibits and its artists with images and descriptions which represents the main part of this documentation. Later on there is an evaluation partband its analysis included to prove the exhibitions success. This is also possible by a view into the guestbook and feedback from organizers, artists and visitors.

Click here to download the Handbook.

© Epimorfotiki Kilkis SM LLC, August Horch Akademie, Audit Conseil Expertise Formation

This documentation and the project “VWM – The value of wasted materials” has been funded by the European Commission as a Leonardo Learning Partnership under the Lifelong Learning Programme from 2011 to 2013.

Best Practices on the reusing of wasted materials - the example of Mrs. Chrysa Polyzou

Mrs. Chrysa Polyzou is a juwellery designer specialised in the recycling of wasted materials like paper, wood, pvc, metal and fabric. The value increases by the fact that each product is eco-chic, handmade, and planet-friendly. It is always a surprise to see what is being used and what it will be used next.

Chrysa's moto is: “One man’s trash is another woman’s treasure”

Reducing the volume of wasted materials - The example of glass and paper

A presentation made by Ass. Prof. G. Skodras in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia, during the partners meeting in Zwickau (DE).

5TH NEWSLETTER

On December 2012 August Horch Akademie GmbH, after having organised and hosted the 5th partners meeting in Zwickau (DE) has edited the 5th Newsletter with information aboutthe activities implemented by the partnership in the period between the meetings.

RESEARCH ON PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES - A GOOD EXAMPLE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA

In the frame of the interdisciplinary teachers-students-team workshop, in cooperation with Ass. Prof. G. Skodras of the department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia, the description of a "good example" introducing how the reuse of wasted materials might be used as a "new pedagogical approach" in non-formal and/or informal adult education contexts has been presented.

The title of the paper presented is "Conversion of wastes to Energy & Materials" and it's been prepared on purpose for the needs of the "Value of Wasted Materials" project. Ass. Prof. G. Skodras presented it during project partners' meeting in Kilkis on June 20th 2012.

The aims and the scope of the presentation are:

• To reuse wastes by producing novel materials and by extracting energy, and;
•  To prepare and test (in field) a generic modular training framework based on the principle of experience learning.

In the introduction of the presentation it is written:

• In a knowledge based society life-long learning will be the ultimate challenge;
• The modern globalised working environment necessitates vocational training;
• Classic ways of training, based of the binary model of school-class or teacher-apprentice are either non-applicable or ineffective.

The teacher's acquaintance with the context of the "new pedagogical approach" takes place through 3 different paradigms from the sphere of "re-using of wasted materials", namely:

1st: Advances materials from waste tyres;

2nd: Waste wood utilisation for energy generation;

3rd: Biogas – Waste to Energy.

To read the whole presentation click here. 

4TH NEWSLETTER

On October 2012 the 4th project Newsletter was issued. the Newsletter was mainly dedicated to the International Exhibition on "The Value of Wasted Materials", organized in Kilkis on 7th and 8th of September 2012.

KILKIS (GR): INTERNATIONAL EXHIBTION ON THE MEDIA

In this post it is making evident how the Local Media (both printed and electronic) dealt with the International Exhibition. The overall conclusion is that there were articles about the Exhibition at almost the entireness of the Media, and also, the comments have been positive.

Also, here there are some links to electronic posts:

1) on "PAIONIA NEWS"

2) on "KILKIS 24"

3) on "GNOMI KILKIS" and again "GNOMI KILKIS", and with photos "GNOMI KILKIS"

4) on "KILKIS TODAY", again "KILKIS TODAY"

5) and finally on FACEBOOK.

We are waiting that within this week more Newspapers will write about the Exhibition. We will upload photos of these Newspapers as soon as they arrive to us.

"Proini", daily Newspaper from Kilkis

 

 

KILKIS (GR): INTERNATIONAL EXHIBTION OF ITEMS MADE OUT OF WASTED MATERIAL - LIST OF EXHIBITORS & EXHIBITS

In the following pages the data related to the exhibitors (Name, Country, Organization), as well as a description of the exhibits is given. Exhibitors have been the real protagonist of the exhibition, as long as, without their participation this initiative could not take place at all.