REDUCES - 6th Interregional Meeting and Learning Event
DAY 1 – Thursday 28 April 2022 - Manchester Metropolitan University
Agenda
09.00 – 9.15 Coffee & Registration
9.15 Welcome to Manchester
Manchester Met’s Sustainability Commitments: Prof Liz Price, Head of Sustainability, Manchester Met University (or Prof Paul Hooper – tbc)
Greater Manchester Policy Context
Sarah Mellor, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Oldham Policy Context: Dave Catherall, Oldham Council
9.30 REDUCES overview for the day
Russell Yates, Manchester Met University & Jenni Suominen, Turku University of Applied Sciences
9.45 Overview of Regional Actions
REDUCES partners introduce briefly their identified Actions and inspiration from REDUCES
5 minutes per partner
10.15 Parallel Workshops
Partners and stakeholders will pre-register for participation in one workshop (per person – it is possible for regions to participate in more than one):
- Education & Skills
- Industry/Sector/Supply Chains
- Construction & Housing
- Textiles
- CE Business support and development
- Public Procurement
Each workshop will be facilitated to:
- Ensure lessons learned are captured
- Strengthen practical implementation via additional peer support
- Identification of additional linkages from within the partnership
- Developing ideas and next steps in regions
- Potential for future collaborations (bilateral or multi partner)
There will be a break for coffee during the workshops at a natural time for each group. Groups will then continue and finalise workshop
12.30 Group Feedback, Summary, Discussion
13.00 Lunch & Networking
14.15 Site Visits – partners and stakeholders can select from
SUEZ collection, reuse and repair shops
Print City (MMU) (3D printing of products made from recycled plastics & recycled concrete)
Manchester Fashion Institute: Towards Sustainable Fashion
Others to be confirmed
17.00 Free Time
20.00 Dinner
DAY 2 - Friday 29 April 2022 – Manchester Metropolitan University
REDUCES EB meeting (Please note that this is an internal project meeting. Regional stakeholders are welcome to participate but focus of the meeting is more in internal discussion and project activities).
09.30 – 12.00
09.30-10.30 Administrative & Content issues / Timo Mieskonen
- e.g. budget issues, planning the Phase II monitoring and learning activities
- Finalizing the Action Plan process in each region – what needs to be done?
- Sending the final survey
10.30-12.00 Workshop on Lessons learned publication and policy recommendation report / Evert-Jan & Jenni
- Joint discussion and planning the content
12.00-12.30
12.30 Lunch
13.30 – one to one meetings as needed
