The European Commission is funding the collaborative project ‘Brokering Environmentally Sustainable Sanitation for Europe’ (BESSE) under the environment sub-theme (Enhancing connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable development) of the Seventh Framework Programme. The project is a collaborative effort of academic, professional and non-governmental organisations. It aims to contribute to the Renewed, Sustainable Development Strategy of the European Union through the enhancement of the links between sanitation policy and research on sustainable sanitation development.

  • The aims and objectives of the project are:
  • To establish what obstacles are preventing the dissemination of scientific and technical sanitation information;
    To identify knowledge brokering (communication) methods that will enable the sanitation sectors to overcome these obstacles;
  • To start a learning process on knowledge brokerage in general, as a tool for the socialisation of Scientific and Technological Research (STR).

The project implementation started in June 2009 and it is expected to end in May 2012.

NEWS

17-2-2010

2nd Steering Committee Meeting, Castel Sant’Angelo, Italy


The second Steering Committee Meeting of the BESSE Project was held with the Italian Project Partner in Castel Sant’Angelo, in January 2010. The meeting was attended by all the project partners and generously hosted by the Mayor of Castel Sant’Angelo, Paolo Anibaldi.
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28-12-2009

Mayor of Pernik launches Bulgaria Pilot Project


A newspaper article that appeared in a Pernik newspaper announced the implementation of the BESSE project in Bulgaria.
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28-12-2009

1st Steering Committee Member Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria


In September 2009, the first Steering Committee member meeting took place in Sofia, Bulgaria in September 2009. The meeting finalise d the design frameworks for the project and mapped the way forward for the 9 Working Groups to implement the project.
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28-12-2009

Kick-off meeting


In June 2009 Steering Committee members gathered at Maastricht University to craft the working relationship between all the organisations that make up the BESSE team. Ragna Zeiss (right, middle) is based at Maastricht University and leads the project as operational coordinator.
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