Every year, at the end of October, Blue Flag Italy holds a technical meeting, which marks the beginning of the Italian Blue Flag campaign for the next bathing season. The meeting brings together the municipalities who already had the Blue Flag awarded beaches, together with the ones who just received the Blue Flag award and started their journey towards sustainability.
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The technical meeting took place in Rome on October 26th, in the headquarters of the Lazio Region, with over 300 representatives. During the meeting, all the different aspects of the programme were addressed and the innovations that will be used in the next Blue Flag campaign were introduced. This year, the meeting was especially focused on waste-water treatment and management.
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Moreover, FEE Italy has presented its challenge, which is the continuing education program for local administrators and municipal technicians on issues regarding sustainable development and planning of their territories.
For over 35 years, FEE Italy has been supporting municipalities in their path toward sustainable development, where training always played a major role. Therefore, continuing education will be guaranteed and managed by FEE Italy through the new e-learning platform UNIGEA, which is the higher education school for sustainable development especially dedicated to Blue Flag, Green Spikes, Eco-Schools and Green Key.
The courses in this e-learning platform aim to increase knowledge and skills through an interdisciplinary approach. Administrators and technicians of the Blue Flag municipalities will be required to carry out at least two training modules on various issues relating to sustainability every year.