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Dec 09 2020
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In Search of a Green City

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About the event

What makes a city “green”? Planning, Mobility, Architecture, Climate and Energy, Waste,

Green Spaces, Biodiversity, Food System … Initiatives and commitments are multiplying, such as the Pact of Mayors for Energy and Climate, the Milan Pact, Circular Cities, Cities Without Pesticides, Green Cities Agreement, Declaration of Glasgow, among many others that can be voluntarily assumed by cities and municipalities to be more sustainable or ecological …

Do these commitments reach the public? How do they articulate with Spatial Planning? Are they transparent to the citizen? How do you know that such commitments have an effect?

In this webinar, the Green European Foundation and its partner Quercus will review some of these initiatives and discuss the ways that can safely take us towards greener cities. We will also go into two relatively recent approaches, that of local food policies and action plans for the biodiversity.

Programme

17:00 Welcome by Paula Lopes da Silva – Project Coordinator at Quercus

17:30 Raúl Gómez – Director of Fundacíon Transicíon Verde and member of Green European Foundation

18:00 Cecília Delgado – Architect, researcher and coordinator of the Food Network Cities Sustainable

18:30 Mário Carmo – Biologist, Specialist in Action Plans and Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystems

19:00 pm Meet and Greet with speakers

Registration

Participants can register via this link: EM BUSCA DA CIDADE VERDE

The event will be in Portuguese and Spanish.

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This event is organized by the Green European Foundation with the support of Quercus and with the support of the European Parliament’s financial contribution to the Green European Foundation.

Nov 05 2019
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Food Policies in the European Union (Lisbon)

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About the Event

Recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy may lead to progress in the building of sustainable food systems in Europe, but other actors are also driving this progress. Initiatives lead by civil society, non-governmental, local and private organisations are coordinating action on the ground and responding to increased demands for more sustainable food, reduced food waste, and local and fair production that respects both the environment and animal wellbeing.

Europe urgently needs food policies that reflect these demands. This conference will bring together key actors in the transition to a fair and sustainable food and agriculture system to discuss the way forward.

Speakers:

  • Maria José Ilhéu (Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis)
  • Alexandra Azevedo (Quercus)
  • Cecília Delgado (Alimentar, Cidades Sustentáveis, CICS.NOVA – NOVA FCSH)
  • André Antunes (Chão Rico)
  • Denis Hickel (Quinta do Alecrim)

Programme

14.00 – Welcome tea and registration

14.20 – Introduction of the program and participants

14.50 – The Common Agricultural Policy: origins, limits and current challenges

Discussion and video presentation followed by discussion in groups

Presentation of the results

16.00 – Local responses to the challenges of sustainable food

Local solutions and products

16.30 – Innovation and challenges of food systems: examples from international experiences

Discussion and video presentation followed by discussion in groups

Presentation of the results

17.40 – 18.00 – “Wrap-up” and conclusions

Registration

Attendance to this event is free, please register your place via the form found here.

Please find the Facebook event page (in Portuguese) for this event here.

The language of this conference will be Portuguese.

 

Feb 14 2019
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Call for Participants: Green School – Europe, Environment and I (Lisbon)

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Event Background

The Green European Foundation, with its new partner Quercus, is launching the first ever Spring School in Portugal under the European Green Activists Training programme, taking place in Lisbon.

About the Event

This two-day training session will dive into environmental policies, helping participants understand the inner-workings of the European Union institutions and how environmental policies can be influenced. The session will also offer alternative tools for activism, such as using cartoons and video formats.

Practicalities

This event is for participants aged between 18 – 26 years old.
The event will be mainly held in Portuguese, with some parts in English.
The course fee is 10 euro, which includes all meals mentioned in the programme.
Travel and accomodation costs of the participants are not covered by the organisers.

Programme

14th June – Day 1: EU and the Environment – Official Institutions and Civil Society Organizations
09:00 – Reception of participants
09:30 – Opening by a Quercus and Aurelié Marechal, director of Green European Foundation
10:00 – The European institutions and GEF; Aurelié Marechal, director of Green European Foundation
10:30 – The EU Parliament: roles, activities and challenges
Pedro Valente da Silva, head of Cabinet of the EP Rep. in Portugal (TBC)
11:00 – Coffee-break
11:20 – Influencing the EU Environmental legislation and policies – the role and action of NGOs
by Paula Lopes da Silva, Quercus
11:40 – Agriculture, nature and the environment. The EU Agriculture Policy by Domingos Leitão, Executive Director at SPEA, C6 member
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Biodiversity, green citizenship and the EU – A training experience in Brussels by Sandra Pereira, Biologist and Environmental Education Officer, Quercus
14:20 – E-learning with the Green European Foundation by Aurélie Marechal, GEF
15:00 – Sustainable food and public policies by Cecília Delgado, Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of Lisbon Nova University
15:30 – The project “Make Europe Sustainable for All” and the Sustainable Development Goals by Telma Costa, project manager at CPADA, Portuguese Confederation of Environmental NGOs
16:30 – Coffee-break
18:00 – Acting now! Volunteer activity at Re-Food nearby centres, helping others and fighting against food waste
20:00 – Dinner at Restaurant Jardim dos Sentidos (Vegetarian)
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15th June – Day 2: EU and the Environment – Policies, Legislation and Challenges Ahead
09:30 – Introduction with a video: “Story of stuff – Microfibers”
09:40 – Circular economy and European waste policy by Larissa Copello, Zero Waste Europe
10:00 – Citizens and waste: Short presentation of Quercus WasteApp
Coffee-break
11:00 – Idea Challenge, a GEF project by Célia Vilas Boas, facilitator in Portugal
11:30 -Environmental online activism: campaigning in the internet by Lopo de Almeida, IT consultant
11:50 – Introduction to the workshops, split of the groups and initial brainstorm
12:45 – Lunch
14:00 – Practical Workshops: Communicating sustainability/environment
Workshop A: One minute with the Environment – Producing short videos, facilitated by João Luis Azevedo, from Quercus Green Minute team
Workshop B: Environmental Cartoon – Intervening through humor, facilitated by Vasco Gargalo, Cartoonist
17:00 – Presentation of workshop’s outputs by each group
17:30 – Evaluation of the event, final remarks and closing

Registraton

Please register via the form found here.

Deadline: 05th June