TRAINEESHIP IN ITALY

Project: "Governance of the Sanitation Services: Training and Capacity Building for Brazilian Public Consortia"

Starting frm Monday, November 16, the top 10 qualified participants (see ist below) of the distance learning course "Planejamento para Sustentabilidade" will engage in a traineeship in Italy within the Project “Governance of the Sanitation Services: Training and Capacity Building for Brazilian public consortia”. This initiative is realized with the financial support of ATO3 – the Turin Water Authority and it is aimed at improving the conditions of “saneamento ambiental” in Brazil through the empowerment of local technical and managerial skills – including planning, organization and technical capacities at lenght - in collaboration with the Ministério do Meio Ambiente,  the Frente Nacional de prefeitos and the Observatorio dos consorcio Publicos e do Federalismo.

Following a preliminary meeting at the Headquarters of Hydroaid in Turin, the participants will get to know Italian leading institutions and utilities in the field of water and waste management, including SMAT S.p.A., TRM S.p.A., ART Ambiente Risorse e Territorio s.r.l., MilanoDepur S.p.A, IREN S.p.A. e EmiliAmbiente S.p.A. and ATO3 – whose experience will be presented and shared in order to define models of effective and sustainable governance of the integrated water cycle.