Campaigns and projects
We work project- and campaign-based.
The campaign Make ICT Fair and the projects NEMO and Fair ICT Flanders currently take up most of our work.
Current Campaign
CTRL ALT DELETE
A campaign about Planned Obsolescence.
Worker Driven Monitoring of the Mining Sector
NEWS: Worker Driven Monitoring of the Mining Sector CATAPA is entering a new partnership which will trial worker-driven monitoring of mining operations across three continents. A new pilot project has been launched, in which
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Speakers Tour 2022 Overview
SPEAKERS TOUR 2022 OVERVIEW The Speakers Tour was a big success! Thank you all so much for making this happen! What a wonderful edition. This year, two environmental defenders, Mirtha and Rosas from Cajamarca, Perú, were
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Speaker’s Tour Student Event – Citizens Council: Extractivism and KULeuven
Speaker’s Tour Student Event - Citizens Council: Extractivism and KULeuven We do not eat gold, we do not drink oil. (Rosas Duran Carrera, KULeuven Student Event) During this year's Speaker’s Tour CATAPA organised several events
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Project NEMO
NEMO Near-zero-waste recycling of low-grade sulphidic mining waste for critical-metal, mineral and construction raw-material production in a circular economy. The issue of mining waste in the EU Source: Historic mining site of Rio Tinto
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Fair ICT Flanders
This project is run by the non-profit organization CATAPA vzw, the umbrella organization of Flemish environmental groups Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Society for a Better Environment) and Ondernemers voor Ondernemers (Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs) and aims at improving the
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Defensoras
Environmental and human rights defenders are tirelessly committed to equality and justice. Unfortunately, they often face discrimination, violence, criminalisation, violations of their civil rights and the impunity of armed public groups (police, army) or hired
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Ctrl Alt Del Campaign
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CATAPA pilot organisations commit to fair ICT
The two Ghent pilot organisations of the ‘Fair ICT Flanders’ project, Ghent University and District09, both join Electronics Watch, an international NGO that strives for better working conditions in the production process of electronics.