Start making a change with our training workshops

We organized a 2-day training for community leaders from developing countries. The participants had to apply through an open call and we had participants from 9 countries in 4 continents. Participants had to submit a pre-work on their national waste situation, that was embedded into the onsite training activities. The training was followed by 2 webinars later in the year – on behaviour change and waste policy – topics selected by the participants themselves. Half a year after the training also catch-up call was organized to see what follow-up projects the participants had implemented in their home communities.

Together with Danish Refuge Council and European Environmental Bureau we offered a 4-day training, where the trainers connected online to a group of participants onsite. The participants could do their group work in a physical space, and a local translator acted as a bridge between the trainers and participants. The training included both short presentations and group work with feedback from the trainers. The training focused on practical zero waste solutions suitable for Bangladesh setting.

We offered an online training for Trash Hero volunteers in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, including translations into local languages (organized by Trash Hero). In the first round we offered a 2-day training and in the second round a 4-week long training, with online sessions once a week followed by a weekly homework. The second training round also resulted in creating a greenwashing learning tool. Read more about it here. For both rounds we included local zero waste experts as trainers.

We organized a 4-week online training for different community leaders in Africa. Participants had to apply through an open call and we had participants from 13 African countries. The course had one 5-hour session every week, with homework tasks in between. To bring in African know-how into the trainers’ team, we partnered with Tanzanian zero waste organization Nipe Fagio. The online training was also followed up by two webinars on biowaste treatment and practical zero waste solutions, both topics chosen by the training participants themselves. 8 months after the training we also had a catch-up call to see how the participants had implemented their learnings. More about the training can be read here.

As part of an Erasmus+ funded BEZWA project, we organized 5-day training in Slovenia for European zero waste activists. The participants had to submit a pre- and post-training task and participate in webinars before and after the training, the training itself included also site visits to different Slovenian zero waste examples. More about the training here.

As part of an Erasmus+ funded BEZWA project, we organized 5-day training in Brussels for European zero waste professionals. The participants had to submit a pre- and post-training task and participate in webinars before and after the training, the training itself also included teaching practice for all the participants.