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Environment in Matosinhos: get to know the program for this week

The Matosinhos City Hall intends to promote the decarbonization of the economy and the energy transition aiming at carbon neutrality by 2030


More than a goal or a signature, Carbon Neutrality 2030 is also a way of being and being in society.

The Municipality of Matosinhos has a diversified program around environmental education, sustainability, energy transition, circular economy and other environmental themes.

Learn here what is People & Planet - A Common Destiny. Sign up for a talk about "Trees in Urban Space", mark the World Water Day or the World Agriculture Day. A week with a wide range of programming for different types of audiences.


People & Planet - A Common Destiny

People & Planet: A Common Destiny is a European project to mobilize young citizens and local authorities to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and focus on combating climate change. It is funded by the European Union through the DEAR Program, with co-financing from Camões, I.P., involving 17 partners from 8 EU member states and Cape Verde. In Portugal, the project is implemented by the consortium composed by the Municipality of Loures, IMVF, RICD and FUEL.

Under this project, the Municipality of Matosinhos has been developing several actions with the different schools in the municipality and also with volunteers. In 2022 about 262 people participated. The initiatives contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, namely SDG 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

Next actions:

Given the recurring drought episodes in Portugal and the constant calls by the authorities for responsible water consumption, global challenges are increasingly local. The impact of climate change is drastically affecting the Planet and People, namely regarding the water available for consumption, on which life depends.

- Municipal Assembly of young people - Collection of messages for the UN Water Conference Date: March 17th

Place: Ecological Park of M. S. Brás

Target Public: João Gonçalves Zarco Secondary School


Expojardim & Urban Garden

After the last edition in Lisbon, EXPOJARDIM returns to Exponor - Matosinhos - Porto.

On March 16, 17 and 18, the Matosinhos City Hall will be present at ExpoJardim. As usual, the fair will bring together a wide range of equipment, products and services related to the sector.

The fair is dedicated to equipment, urban furniture, sustainable environment and circular economy and a unique opportunity for players in this area of activity to present their proposals and solutions to the market.


Planting of Sabugueiro

To raise awareness among participants for the promotion of native species.

Registration required via email: ammamatosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt

When: March 18, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Where: Monte de S. Brás Ecological Park


Celebration of the World Water Day

Workshop "The Fascinating Journey of Water

The water we find in Nature is in constant movement between the planet's great natural reservoirs - oceans and freshwater streams, continents, and the atmosphere - along which it changes its physical state. It is through the water cycle that the climate is regulated, water is naturally purified, and conditions are created for life to flourish. In order to ensure the supply of drinking water to populations, man has developed technology to capture and treat water from nature, returning it to the water environment with the quality essential to the preservation of resources. In this workshop families will explore the Natural and Urban Water Cycles, experimenting and simulating the different phases and processes that go through from its capture to its return to nature.

Registration required through email: ammamatosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt

Target Audience: Families

When: March 18, from 3pm to 5pm

Where: Monte de S. Brás Ecological Park


World Agriculture Day

Workshop "From Seed to Germination", with the duration of 1h30

Come celebrate with us and learn the practices of sustainable agriculture!

Free activity with mandatory registration to cmia@cm-matosinhos.pt

Target Public: 1st and 2nd cycle

When: March 20th, from 9h30 to 11h00; 11h00 to 12h30; 14h00 to 15h30; 15h30 to 17h00

Where: CMIA of Matosinhos


Eco Mobile Center

Waste Separation

In order to provide solutions to citizens on what to do with small residues that may be recyclable and that should not be deposited in the ecopoints, so that they are not placed in public street containers for undifferentiated residues, the Matosinhos Municipality, in partnership with LIPOR, has two mobile ecocenters in the municipality.

When: March 21st to 27th

Where: Leça do Balio (crossroad between Rua da Estrada Velha and Rua Santos Lessa, near Leça do Balio Monastery) and Mar shopping Species of our sea, The secrets of the algae, Observation of microcrustaceans in the optical microscope

Workshops

Sensitize participants to the importance of preserving marine biodiversity and learn about the potential and richness of our seas, especially the algae.

Group registration required cmia@cm-matosinhos.pt or 229 392 415 Target Audience: 1st cycle

When: March 21st and 22nd, 9h30 to 11h00

Where: CMIA of Matosinhos

Celebration of Forest Day

Planting

Raise awareness of the importance of planting native species

Registration required through email: ammamatosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt Target Audience: 1st cycle / Preschool

When: March 21st, 9:30am to 12:00pm

Where: EB1JI das Ribeiras World Water Day Celebration

Workshop

Alerting students to the urgent need to preserve and save this valuable natural resource.

Registration required through email: ammamatosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt

Target Audience: School students

When: March 21st

Where: Sendim Elementary School


The Tree in Urban Space

The lecture will have the participation of Prof. Dr. Paulo Farinha Marques, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), Director of the Botanical Garden of the U. Porto, active agent in the work with Urban Forestry and recently the coordinator of the Urban Forestry Plan for the Municipality of Porto.

This lecture is the first to take place in a total of three and is part of the Cycle of Tree Lectures, an initiative of CMM to share knowledge and promote awareness about this millennial being: the tree!

The event is free and open to the general public, but requires prior registration via email: ammamatosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt

When: March 21st, 3pm to 5pm

Where: Salão Nobre dos Paços do Concelho


World Tree Day

To celebrate the World Tree Day, CMIA Matosinhos will organize 2 sessions of the workshop "Forest - Source of Life

Join us and learn about the resources that these habitats provide us and how we should preserve them

Free activity with mandatory registration to cmia@cm-matosinhos.pt


Workshop "Forest - Source of Life

Sensitize participants to the importance of preserving marine biodiversity and learn about the potential and riches of our seas, especially algae.

Target Public: 1st and 2nd cycle

When: March 21st, 2 pm to 3:30 pm and 3:30 pm to 5 pm

Where: CMIA of Matosinhos POETRY COMPETITION

WORLD WATER DAY 2023 - Registration period until March 22

"Speaking of Water with Love

Challenge all 3rd and 4th grade students of the basic schools of the municipality of Matosinhos to a poetry contest. The best poems will then be displayed in the Indaqua Matosinhos store and website.

Requires registration via email: educa.ambiental@indaqua.pt Target Audience: 3rd and 4th grade

When: March 22

Where: Schools VEM

Volunteer Action Organic Agriculture

To raise the awareness of the participants for the importance of consumption and production in organic farming. Promote the awareness of the need to preserve the environment. Training in the themes of Organic Farming. Intervention plan in the PEMSB destined to the VEM

Target Audience: Volunteers

When: March 23rd, 10am to 12:30pm

Where: Monte de S. Brás Ecological Park

Waste removal action

River Cleaning

Requires registration via email: ammamatosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt Target Audience: EPROMAT students and teachers

When: March 24th

Where: Monte de S. Brás Ecological Park


World Water Day

Come celebrate the World Water Day with us! For March 22nd, CMIA Matosinhos is organizing 2 sessions of the workshop "Water - An endless journey".

Come learn about the importance of this resource and how we should protect and preserve it

Free activity with mandatory registration to cmia@cm-matosinhos.pt Workshop "Water, an endless journey

The main objectives of the activity are to raise awareness of the importance of preserving forests, learn to identify our native species and the products and resources associated with the forest. The workshop consists in the dynamization of a didactic game.

Group registration required cmia@cm-matosinhos.pt or 229 392 415

Target Public: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cycles

When: March 22, 2 pm to 3:30 pm and 3:30 pm to 5 pm

Where: CMIA of Matosinhos

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