• HEIs: students, professors and staff
  The main target group are the students (post- and under-graduate) and staff (teaching and supporting) of the participating HEIs. The setting-up and implementation of a comprehensive and targeted Master Course on SWM in DC (the first one of its kind world-wide), with also the prospect of a double diploma from the participating EU HEIs, will increase inter- and intrainstitutional networking, thus proving multilaterally beneficial to: a1) post-graduate students attending courses, lectures, workshops and the intended final project conference on sustainable SWM in DC; a2) under-graduate students updating curriculum by lectures from highly experienced and worldwide reputed professors/experts on SWM in DC; a3) faculty members expanding their knowledge via exchanging knowhow and experiences; a4) administrative staff of the participating HEIs obtaining and building administrative capacity via their involvement in Master Course’s organization.

• Governmental/ local authorities

• special social groups

• SWM stakeholders and professionals

On a broader yet still very direct level, various local and regional community groups will tangibly benefit from the proposed action including: b1) Governmental and local authorities, raising awareness and fostering osmosis on policy level; b2) SWM stakeholders, trade unions, industries, commerce and SMEs, benefiting by know-how acquired and linking HEIs to the local SWM labor market, as well as various local NGOs; b3) special community subgroups (usually socially isolated/marginalised and professionally un- or under-employed) usually involved in informal SWM or potentially to-be-involved in recovery operations and secondary product development, such as: b3a) women (incl. single mothers) from low-income social groups trained into waste sorting, composting, recycling and reuse as a means of professional reinstatement and additional income, both in urban and rural areas; b3b) refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, poor and homeless people that often are found to reside near dump-sites, make a living out of these on a regular basis, often under high and direct health and environmental risks; b3c) peddlers, pickers and scavengers getting integrated in the local systems and collaborating with local authorities and recyclable material collectors and dealers; and b3d) minorities (e.g. national, religious) that are often faced with societal exclusion and are becoming active in SW recycling, reuse and trading as a result.