Clean Green City by Smart Waste Management

Programme 2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (EN): Cool4City project facilitates the development of innovative waste management systems in Finland and Russia. The project will increase environmental awareness of citizens and support environmental SMEs business development, social entrepreneurship and circular economy.

Description (RU):

Проект Cool4City способствует развитию инновационных систем управления твердыми бытовыми отходами в России и в Финляндии. Проект повышает экологическую осведомленность граждан и оказывает поддержку МСП в сфере экологии, социального предпринимательства и экономики замкнутого цикла.

Description (FI): Cool4City hanke edistää innovatiivisten jätehuoltojärjestelmien kehittämistä Suomessa ja Venäjällä. Hankkeen aikana edistetään kansalaisten ympäristötietoisuutta ja tuetaan ympäristöalan pk-yritysten liiketoiminnan, sosiaalisen yrittäjyyden ja kiertotalouden kehittämistä.

Achievements (EN):

Cool4City project met its objectives to facilitate the development of innovative waste management systems in two regions in Finland - the Helsinki Metropolitan area and Mikkeli region - by studying and implementing four pilots in the project regions as well as to develop and raise environmental awareness of citizens in the project pilots regions. Outcomes of the project include increased waste separate collection on-the-site of housing companies, raised awareness of citizens on services of municipal waste management companies on waste sorting stations and collection of reusable goods for further integration into the circular economy value chain. Cool4City work toward meeting the project objectives was implemented in a set of activities, such as: studying, analyzing and describing municipal (focusing on households) solid waste management systems’ operational models and practicalities in the Helsinki Metropolitan area and Mikkeli region of Finland as well as in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region of Russia; get to know in practice –visits to municipal waste management organizations’ sites in Finland (Cool4City partners’ - Helsinki Region Environmental Services HSY and Metsäsairila LLC of Mikkeli region); analyzing and describing changes in waste management legislation in EU, Finland and Russia; implementing and analyzing results of the pilots (2 pilots in the Helsinki Metropolitan area and 2 pilots in Mikkeli region). The role of communication and collaboration as well as visibility activities with the purpose of awareness raising can not be overestimated when we have such a topic as municipal waste and circular economy. Cool4City project collaborated tightly with another SEFRCBC programme projects with the relevant focuses. Cool4City partners focused on bringing out knowledge, thoughts and experiences via organization’s websites, social media and other channels to achieve different types of target groups, which are all society/community and all types of organizations in our case. Cool4City project gathered the main results and achievements into the final publication “Household waste management in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Mikkeli Region – operational models, practicalities and pilots” (https://gnf.fi/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Cool4City_WEB.pdf), which is available in open access on Green Net Finland’s website. To conclude: using pilots and experiments can help to find new practices to achieve goals related to raising recycling rates of household waste. Cool4City project is also co-author of the publication “Overview of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Finland with practical examples of implementation on regional level”.

Website: https://cool4city.site

Delivered Outputs (EN):

target value: TI Number of persons particip… 47/1000 TI Number of improved systems… 2/2 PSI Number of joint activities… 5/5 PSI Number of participating experts… 13/20 PSI Informational materials… 4/1 PSI Overviews about Finnish…1/1 PSI Reports on results of information… 1/1000 PSI Number of posts, news… 62/130

Thematic information

Waste and pollution

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Centre" (SPb IAC)

Address: Transportny per. 6A, 191040 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.iac.spb.ru

Total budget: EUR 195 695.00

Metsäsairila Ltd.

Name: Metsäsairila Ltd.

Address: Arkistokatu 12, 50100 Mikkeli, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.metsasairila.fi

Total budget: EUR 57 484.96

Mikkelin Toimintakeskus ry

Name: Mikkelin Toimintakeskus ry

Address: Savilahdenkatu 10 A, 50100 Mikkeli, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.uuttaelamaa.fi

Total budget: EUR 75 253.60

Association for Environmental Partnership (AsEP)

Name: Association for Environmental Partnership (AsEP)

Address: Tchaikovskogo street 46-48, 191123 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ecoprofi.info

Total budget: EUR 100 963.00

Green Net Finland ry

Name: Green Net Finland ry

Address: Kuortaneenkatu 2, 00510 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.gnf.fi

Total budget: EUR 64 632.12

Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority

Name: Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority

Address: Ilmalantori 1, 00240 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hsy.fi

Total budget: EUR 87 459.92

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Association for Environmental Partnership (AsEP)

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Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority

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St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Centre" (SPb IAC)

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Summary

Project name (EN): Clean Green City by Smart Waste Management

Project acronym: Cool4City

Project start date: 2021-02-25

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 284 830.60

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 222 133.57

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 48.00%

Co-financing sources:

Third-country contribution: Russia: EUR 99 756.00

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2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-01-29

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

320 / 320 (100%)

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