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  Gemma Nohales Duarte

  Project Coordinator at ENT


Gemma Nohales Duarte

Project Coordinator at ENT

Gemma Nohales Duarte holds a degree in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master in Environmental Intervention: person, society and management from UB-UAB. She is specialized in Waste Management and Prevention and Circular Economy with more than 20 years of experience. Her main areas of expertise are prevention, PxR and waste management strategies and plans, bio-waste and textile fraction management, individualized collection models and identification systems, design and monitoring of collection systems, simulation models, indicators and environmental analysis, consultancy for the administration, grant and European project management. She has experience in communication, fair fees and personal data protection applied to waste management, and in the field of public administration.

She has worked for the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona-BCNecología for 16 years and for the Waste Agency of Catalonia for 4 years. Since 2023, she has been working as a consultant for ENT Foundation where she has been involved in the coordination of the LIFE BIOBEST project on bio-waste policies and management within the EU framework. She has participated in seminars and conferences as a speaker and has coordinated training activities in collaboration with the Environmentalist College of Catalonia.

Email: [email protected]

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  Mike Stinavage

  Project Coordinator at ENT


Mike Stinavage

Project Coordinator at ENT

Mike Stinavage holds a MA in Political Science, specialised in Comparative Politics, from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has experience in United States and European Union environmental programs on waste management and prevention. As a Fulbright and IIE Martin Kriesberg fellow (2021-22), he researched the municipal interpretation of EU waste policy in Navarra and the Basque Country by way of personal interviews, federalist theory, public policy, and local journalism. As a writer, he has published in popular publications not limited to the Gagosian Quarterly, Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Riverdale Press. He is currently working on the LIFE BIOBEST project on bio-waste policies and management.

Email: [email protected]

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  Eva Maria Lopez Hernandez

  Expert on Collaborative Project Management at CIC


Eva Maria Lopez Hernandez

Expert on Collaborative Project Management at CIC

Eva is full time employee at CIC, coordinating many projects funded by the EU and national public authorities. She holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from University of Salamanca. After gaining coordination skills in Spain related to the management of EU funded projects on renewable energies, she is the responsible of collaborative projects at CIC. She also performs data processing and GIS visualization. In the LIFE BIOBEST project, she manages the internal coordination to ensure the tasks are carry out smoothly and in optimal time.

Email: [email protected]

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  Jean-Benoît Bel

  Senior Project Manager at ACR+


Jean-Benoît Bel

Senior Project Manager at ACR+

Jean-Benoit Bel is an environmental engineer holding a degree in general engineering from the École Centrale de Lille (France) and a Master in environmental engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has worked for 9 years for the Paris Region Waste Observatory (ORDIF), where he first defined the environmental impact monitoring of the regional waste management, and then developed ORDIF’s European cooperation through the participation to various EU project and the coordination of the Regions for Recycling Interreg project. He joined ACR+ in 2016 and participated in various EU-funded projects on waste prevention and management, focusing on the replication of results for local and regional authorities. He also conducted various studies, mostly consisting in benchmarking and cross-analysis of local waste management systems, on various fractions such as food waste and textiles. He is currently managing the co-creation approach of the Life Biobest project, as well as on other EU projects and initiatives such as the CCRI.

Email: [email protected] 

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  Manon Jourdan

  Implementation Officer at ZWE


Manon Jourdan

Implementation Officer at ZWE

With two master’s degrees in European Policies (Political Science) and Local Sustainable Development, Manon Jourdan develops and manages zero waste local and national projects for more than 3 years. She specialised in waste prevention strategies, particularly within municipal settings, and has conducted extensive research on the collaborative efforts between local authorities and civil society organisations in this domain.

As a project manager for the Portuguese NGO Zero Waste Lab, Manon played a pivotal role in initiating innovative pilot projects. Notable among them is REPLAY, recipient of the prestigious New European Bauhaus prize in the category “shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking” in 2022, which established the country’s first collection and recycling network for end-of-life toys. Additionally, she contributed to the design and implementation of Liga-Ação, a networking platform aimed at empowering civil society organisations dedicated to waste reduction in Portugal. Continuing her commitment to the zero waste movement, Manon recently joined Zero Waste Europe as an Implementation Officer. Her current role focuses on advancing the adoption of reuse systems at the local level and promoting effective biowaste collection and recycling solutions through the BIOBEST initiative.

Email: [email protected]

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  Steffen Walk

  Scientific Officer at ECN


Steffen Walk

Scientific Officer at ECN

Steffen Walk (MSc) is a scientific officer at ECN. He is an experienced scientist who has spent many years working in the field of bioresources and circular economy. He has been involved in several EU-financed projects in which he has developed a broad knowledge on bio-waste management. His experiences include waste management system analysis, concept development for new collection systems, and implementation in case studies. He has co-authored several scientific publications and technical reports and is currently in the process to complete his PhD at the Hamburg University of Technology, where he was member of the Bioresource Management Group.

Email: [email protected]