There's good news! Cascais is proud to be at the forefront of smart territories, using innovation, technology and participatory governance to improve the quality of life of Cascais residents, optimise resources and promote sustainable development.
Installation of new Ecological Islands throughout the municipality, an important step towards the future of waste collection.
Recovery and upgrading of new green spaces and playgrounds. An extra 300,000 square metres and 28 million euros in new green spaces.
Cascais has seen a decrease in undifferentiated waste sent to landfill, maintaining the downward trend it has seen since 2018.
2,000 recycling bins in Cascais public schools. The municipality has promoted the distribution of ecopoints for classrooms in all public schools in the borough.
Cascais Green Family Support Fund: 3 million euros to improve homes by adopting energy efficiency and transition measures in homes, buildings and workspaces.
They represent an investment of €3,500,000 and will enable residents to have better conditions when it comes to depositing and separating their waste. The new equipment is easier to use and has a greater volume capacity for recyclable and undifferentiated waste.
110 new ecological islands are being installed at strategic points in the municipality and 14 new ecocentres have already been placed outside the municipality's public schools.
Advantages of having an ecological island near you:
- Greater capacity for collecting recyclable and unsorted waste
- Easier and more direct disposal
- Less impact on public spaces
More than 70,200 families have joined the household collection of food waste and food preparation, which represents more than 190,000 inhabitants (more than 50% of the municipality's residents). Would you like to order your free bio-waste recovery kit? Call 800 203 186 (free on weekdays from 09h00 to 18h00).
Less is more:
In 2024 we produced 460 tonnes less undifferentiated waste (-0.54% compared to 2023) and separated more of it at source through recycling bins and recyclable materials: +3.7% paper and +6.44% plastic. The amount of glass discarded in recycling bins fell by 3.02 per cent.
Livramento Woods
Area: 83,200 m2
Investment: 425,080.73€
Action: Green space
Livramento Road
‘Green Park for All’ OP 43 - Matarraque
Area: 9,100 m2
Investment: €398,817.90
Action: Green space, playground and community garden
Rua Diogo Cão, Matarraque
Advantages of having a green space near you:
- Promotion of biodiversity
- Mitigating the impact of climate change
- Physical and mental health benefits
Advantages of having a children's playground near you:
- Physical, cognitive and creative stimulation
- Social development and inclusion
- Multigenerational fun
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Opportunities for an active, dynamic and healthy life
The notion of quality of life is widely associated with health and well-being. The space in which we live and the conditions it provides contribute greatly to the creation of a healthy life, based on an active, conscious and sustainable lifestyle. In Cascais, we provide all the conditions for you to enjoy a complete state of physical and mental well-being
The Health Academy is a municipal initiative that aims to inform and raise public awareness about healthy practices, and from these, build their health and quality of life journey.
Health promotion occurs through multiple actions spread across the municipality, in online informative sessions and in the local service spaces.
Through these, the Academy welcomes ideas from the population for new projects, and makes known the health resources available: equipment, partnerships and actions that take place all year long.
360º is an online platform that brings together all information about cultural and sporting events that take place in Cascais. Accessible via website or APP, it is possible to combine several filters in searches and find details about exhibitions, shows and sporting events by category or cultural equipment.
Cascais Digital Library allows the access to a series of documents of historical and cultural interest that would otherwise be unlikely to be known.
It promotes free access to the municipality's journey through History, via the preventive conservation of key documents, the digitization of works of recognized heritage value, and the digital availability of works published by the municipality.
In addition, the Digital Library is integrated in several national and European networks, including Europeana - European Digital Library, which increases the visibility of our collections abroad.
The History and Heritage platform provides access to the Municipal Historical Archive and the Digital Library and allows consultation of several historical archive records from different funds in which the Municipality of Cascais is the trustee (public and private). The online catalogue allows searches and checking the availability of documentation in the Cascais libraries.
The History and Heritage Platform is not only an extremely valuable repository, but also a very useful tool for those who want to discover the history of their county.
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The museums of Cascais can now be visited, even without leaving home. Virtual visits to places such as the Village Museum, Casa Sommer (Historical Archives), the Library for Children and Youth, or the Cascais Cultural Center are now accessible on the Bairro dos Museus website.
Besides navigating through several places of the facilities, the virtual visits allow the access to the descriptive content of each art piece and its proper contemplation.
Examples of the collection available for consultation are the exhibitions "Paula Rego: Desenhar, Encenar, Pintar", "Pintura Democrática - Coleção Luísa e Manuel Pedroso Lima" and the photography exhibition "Vivian Maier - street photographer".
The Cascais Social Network will be 20 years old in 2022. This is a network made up of institutions and social agents active in the municipality, whose continuous work promotes the fight against poverty and social exclusion, through integrated social development, and the pursuit of inclusion and social cohesion.
The members of the Network develop projects and initiatives that make up various complementary responses throughout the territory, and invest heavily in training and qualification of their organizations to improve the capacity and quality of response of services.
Currently, 119 organizations are part of the Social Network, which make up 25 partnership networks.
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