Status: Completed
General Objective: The main objective is to strengthen research in the participating Universities, so that the impact of their activities on society is increased.
Participants:
Sandra Méndez Fajardo
Civil Engineer and PhD in Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá Colombia; Master in Civil Engineering with Environmental emphasis from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. She has more than 20 years of professional experience as a teacher, researcher, project manager, and consultant in solid waste and resource management. She has special experience in the systemic design of projects and policies, community empowerment and actors in solutions related to WEEE management, organic waste use and waste management in general. With her doctoral thesis, she methodologically advised the systemic design of the National Policy for the Integral Management of WEEE in Colombia (2014-2106), and currently advises different countries in Latin America and Africa.
Carlos Alberto Hernández Santana
27 years of professional experience working in areas such as university teaching on environmental issues, environmental consulting and management of international projects related to safety, health and the environment. The last 9 years have been dedicated to the handling and management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). From 2009 to 2013 as director of the "e-waste Latin-America" program and from 2014 to date as director of the SRI Project in Colombia. This Project is financed by the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs and internationally coordinated by the Word Resources Forum and EMPA. At the local level it is executed by the National Center for Cleaner Production.
Organizers:
- UCUENCA
- POCH
Research areas:
- Reverse Mining
- Life Cycle Engineering
- Environmental management
- Comprehensive Waste Management
