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Public higher education institutions have a particular moral responsibility in increasing the awareness, knowledge, skills and values required to create a fair and sustainable future. Through sustainable design, the Project Refill_H20 aims to eliminate the use of plastic water bottles in the 6 schools of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), respective bars, canteens and halls of residence A survey of the academic community will identify the set of physical, aesthetic and functional features to create the product specifications for the Smartbottle and Water Refill Station. ICT and IoT technologies will encourage autonomy, pedagogically helping users to acknowledge, identify and reduce their environmental footprint. Applying the principles of circular economy, this academic project promotes the reduction of plastic consumption, production and waste. Contributing towards a paradigm shift, sustainable design canvasses conditions to reduce plastic in the oceans, improving the environment and the quality of life on Earth.
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The authors wish to thank the Program Environment, Climate Change and Low Carbon Economy, created following the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding between Portugal and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, under the EEA and Norway Grants 2014–2021, for the program areas of Environment and Ecosystems (PA11), and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (PA13), for financing the project 10_SGS#1_REFILL_H20. The project was selected in the scope of the notice of funding opportunity Small Grant Scheme # 1, concerning projects for the prevention and awareness-raising for the reduction of marine litter. This Project contributes to the execution of Objective no. 1 of the Environment Program, which is to increase the application of the principles of Circular Economy in specific sectors, and the Output 1.3 of the Program, through the promotion of Circular Economy through the Reduction of plastic in the Oceans, originated from terrestrial activities, following the Annex I of the Program Protocol signed May 27, 2019.
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Mendes, J., Curralo, A., Curado, A., Lopes, S.I. (2021). Fostering Sustainability on Campus: Design of an IoT-Enabled Smartbottle for Plastic Reduction in the Academic Environment. In: Raposo, D., Martins, N., Brandão, D. (eds) Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80415-2_3
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