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Porto, Portugal | 21?23 July 2026
The IURC programme held a Green and Just Transition Advanced Cooperation Mission in Porto as part of the Community of Practice on urban regeneration and social cohesion (CoP 2), hosted by LIPOR ? the intermunicipal waste management service of Greater Porto. Representatives from Hunedoara (Romania), Valle del Cauca (Colombia) and Chihuahua (Mexico) joined the host team for three days of site visits, working sessions and interregional exchange on circular economy, waste management and the stakeholder dynamics that make green transitions work.
The visit is part of a broader effort to develop a transferable, citizen-centred governance model for the green industrial transition. One that is not only environmentally ambitious but socially inclusive.
Day 1 | A model for waste management
The visit opened at the LIPOR headquarters, where a presentation of the organisation’s work and facilities gave participants their first overview of Greater Porto’s approach to waste management. From there, the group moved through LIPOR’s operational infrastructure: the Multimaterial Recycling Circuit and Automatic Packaging Sorting Unit, the drop-off site, the CVO Composting Plant, and the Adventure Park ? a public space built on recovered land ? alongside the biogas facilities and the Formiga Kitchen Garden, a home composting project.
Each site visit was accompanied by introductions from regional representatives, who presented the priorities, characteristics and existing good practices of their own territories. The combination of seeing LIPOR’s facilities in action and mapping the starting points of each participating region helped the group quickly identify shared challenges and potential areas for collaboration.
Day 2 | Circular economy and the art of engaging stakeholders
The second day went deeper into LIPOR’s infrastructure and its broader economic logic. A visit to the Waste to Energy Plant, the landfill and the Wastewater Treatment Plant illustrated the full arc of the waste management cycle ? and, more importantly, the social and economic opportunities that emerge when waste is treated as a resource rather than a problem. Circular business models, new employment opportunities and the potential for local value creation were recurring themes in the discussions.
The afternoon shifted to strategy. At Casa do Corim, LIPOR’s stakeholder engagement model was presented and then put to work: in a practical exercise, each regional delegation identified stakeholder engagement initiatives that could be developed in their own territory. The session made clear that the technical dimension of a green transition is only part of the equation ? without the right actors engaged in the right ways, even the best infrastructure struggles to deliver lasting change.
Day 3 | From learning to action
The final day returned to Casa do Corim for the last working session of the visit, focused on translating the accumulated learning into concrete cooperation. Participants worked together to develop ideas for a pilot action that could serve as the first practical output of the CoP ? one designed to incorporate the specific characteristics, priorities and experience of all four territories.
The session generated proposals that pointed toward genuine interregional collaboration: not just the transfer of good practices, but the joint development of something new. A visit to the city of Porto rounded off the programme.
IURC LAC Advanced Cooperation Missionsについて
IURCラテンアメリカ・カリブ海地域, part of the です。 国際都市・地域協力(IURC) プログラムは、ラテンアメリカ、カリブ海、ヨーロッパの都市と地域をつなぎ、持続可能で包摂的で、イノベーション主導型のソリューションを共同作成します。 ピアツーピアの交流とパートナーシップを通じて、このプログラムは、グローバルな協力を強化しながら、市民の生活の質の向上に貢献します。
先進 協力 ミッション IURCプログラムのコラボレーションと知識共有アプローチに基づくオンサイト技術訪問です。 彼らは、実践のコミュニティのオンライン会議で探求されたテーマをさらに発展させ、彼らの協力行動計画を洗練し、ホスティング都市または地域によって実装されたベストプラクティスの直接の経験を得る機会を都市や地域に提供します。