We educate on and inspire to sustainability and waste reduction.

About AWARE

The project team led by LUT University (LUT), with partners Savonia University of Applied Sciences (SUAS), St Petersburg Forest Technical University (FTU) and St Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (UITD). The project has an overall objective to increase environmental awareness of residents, university teachers, researchers, students, administrators, businessmen, both in Finnish and Russian side, especially contributing towards St Petersburg and Leningrad Regions to enhance their knowledge, skills and capabilities for sustainable waste management. Following are the overall priority focus points for the project:

  • Increased residents’ awareness of both serious environmental threats and the economic potential associated with recyclable waste in St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
  • Improved capacity of Finnish and especially young Russian students to seek and cease business opportunities in the area of waste management, recycling and re-purposing of materials, others might be consider as waste.
  • Improved capacity/skills of university lecturers, researchers and other educators to provide education and to carry out research in sustainable waste management.
  • Improved capacity of the local authorities for decision making in the area of waste management and recycling.
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Collaborators

AWARE project is a CBC South-East Finland – Russia supported project, with four collaborative partners.

  • LUT University (LUT) / Finland
  • St Petersburg Forest Technical University (FTU) / Russia
  • Savonia University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) / Finland
  • St Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (UITD) / Russia

Specially in the covid-19 social distancing time, partners have been focusing on maximizing the use of digital communication tools to share the knowledge for different contact networks. At the moment, we are possessing Finnish and Russian survey on waste management habits in homes.

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Where we operate

In the framework of our CBC South-East Finland – Russia AWARE project, our main focus is in the South-East Finnish-Russia boarder areas. We collect, summaries and share knowledge from larger area context from Finland and Russia, and additionally also study best practices from European and Global context too.

Events like training camps for students, visits to waste processing sites and collaboration with industry and municipal contacts focus areas are around south Karelia, Leningrad region and in city of St Peterburg to support the set project goals.

Project schedule / how to participate

Project AWARE started in first half of 2020 and is ongoing near the end of year 2022. To get contact to us and start collaboration, use our Get in touch tool below.