On the 25th,26th and 27th of March, we had the honour of welcoming a delegation from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim to Vila Nova de Gaia. Almost at the final stage, the Afurada Living Lab project presented the technological solutions developed and some of the results achieved. The 26th was also…
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 Muro Atelier collective visited the Afurada de Baixo and Afurada de Cima primary schools to organise a participatory activity with the children. The material produced will be exhibited in the “Soap” art installation, located in the Market Square. For two days this week, the architectural collective Muro Atelier was at Afurada de Baixo and…
Representatives of the Afurada Living Lab (ALL) consortium had the privilege of meeting with partners from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, for a Learning Exchange Visit. The Portuguese delegation met and explored some of the innovative solutions already implemented in this Norwegian city, which is committed to building a…
The Afurada Living LAB (ALL) received last Tuesday, January 24, a delegation of the EEA Grants Environment Program which included representatives of the Norwegian Embassy (one of the donor countries) and the General Secretary of Environment (SGA), Management Authority of the Program. The visit aimed to assess the progress of the project at the level…
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) 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) promoted, yesterday, at the Centro Interpretativo do Património da Afurada (CIPA), the initiative “Solar Workshop”. The formative action took place in the scope of the “Sustainable Energy Week” and was dynamized by the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia and by GAIURB, in close articulation with the technological partners Innovation…
The Afurada Living Lab was present in Portugal Smart Cities Summit 2022, which took place between 11 and 13 October, at Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL), through a joint participation with the Municipality of Gaia and GAIURB. This event dedicated to the Smart Cities concept explores and promotes synergies between technology, territories, organisations and people…
The Steering Committee of the Afurada Living Lab met on 22 September 2022, at the premises of GAIURB. The meeting was attended by the different partners responsible for the technological activities of each of the thematic areas and aimed to assess its current stage of development, possible synergies between operations and definition of the next…
