Afurada Living Lab participated in the “Portugal SMART CITIES SUMMIT”

The Afurada territory is the focus of this project recently approved by the EEA Grants programme “Environment, Climate Change and Low Carbon Economy”. The Afurada Living Lab is a strategic and technological partnership that aims to test innovative solutions in the parish of Afurada, on the banks of the Douro River. Through the development, prototyping…

This event, organised by Energaia, Energy Cities and Coopérnico CRL, aimed to present and share the experience of municipalities and communities that are taking the first steps in the area of energy transition. The Afurada Living Lab project was present at the conference “Co-creation of Energy Communities in Portugal – the role of local authorities”…

The Afurada Living Lab (ALL) project promoted an upcycling activity this month, with approximately 40 children, from the 3rd and 4th year of schooling at Escola Básica EB1/JI Afurada de Cima. Afurada Upcycle is an ALL project initiative, focused on collecting plastic waste and transforming it into new products, through the use of upcycling machines….

The Afurada Living Lab (ALL) associates itself to the “European Week for Waste Reduction” (EWWR) and reinforces its commitment to the promotion of the circular economy and sustainable consumption, through the dynamisation of an awareness workshop for the reduction of textile waste production and its transformation into new workshop products, under the coordination of the…

The Afurada Living Lab (ALL) actively participated in the European Week for Waste Reduction, this year under the theme “Textiles – Circular and Sustainable, waste is out of fashion!” Thus, awareness-raising actions were streamlined with the community, namely the realization of a sewing workshop on the premises of the Workshop School of GAIURB, where participants…

The Afurada Living Lab (ALL) project has been identified by the Municipal Urbanism and Housing Company GAIURB, a member of the technological partnership, as an emblematic project in the fourth edition of the “Smart Cities Yearbook” publication. This publication gathers information about companies that act in the level of urban intelligence and sustainability of the…