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Exchange of experiences from Poland as part of the S3UNICA project
The partners of the S3UNICA project: Intelligent energy-saving solutions on university campuses met on June 8, 2022 in the online formula to participate in the exchange of experience and learn how the educational community in Bielsko-Biała supports the achievement of local climate and energy goals. First, during the project partners' meeting, they discussed the most important issues related to the current activities of the project.
Launch of CDP 2022 reporting platform
Climate actions of cities and municipalities and their progress require reporting. In order for it to run efficiently and to put the least possible burden on local governments, they need an appropriate tool. With the CDP platform, you only need to submit 1 report for all your obligations! By completing the CDP cities questionnaire, you can simultaneously report to the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, C40 Cities, Under2 Coalition, Cities Race to Zero and Cities Race to Resilience, as well as various ICLEI initiatives and many more.
The 2022 reporting cycle has already started - on the CDP-ICLEI Track platform you will find cities questionnaire, which has been simplified this year and contains less than 40% of the questions compared to last year.
2nd meeting of the Local Advisory Team within the S3UNICA project
The second meeting of the Local Advisory Team was held on April 28, 2022 at the City Hall in Bielsko-Biala. It was opened by President Jarosław Klimaszewski. The event was an excellent opportunity to summarise the previous activities and results of the S3UNICA project, which promote and implement intelligent energy-saving solutions on university campuses. University representatives had the opportunity to learn about European good practices and current funding opportunities in the field of energy efficiency and environmental education in secondary and higher education.
Inclusive energy transformation - seminar in Jadwisin 2022
Over 60 representatives of cities and communes met on May 19 and 20 this year in Jadwisin during the seminar "Inclusive energy transformation and climate protection in cities and municipalities", organized by the Association of Municipalities Polish Network "Energie Cités". Participants had the opportunity to listen to experts, incl. from the Ministry of Climate and Environment and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, and a debate on planning the further development of cities and communes in the context of new energy, geopolitical and social challenges, as well as take part in good practice sessions, conducted in small groups.
During the opening both Artur Borkowski – the Mayer of Serock and Leszek Drogosz - Head of the Board of the Association of Municipalities Polish Network „Energie Cités” (PNEC) and Head of Infrastructure Office, Capital City of Warsaw, emphasized the importance of climate actions, despite new difficulties emerging. Anna Jaskuła - Executive Director of PNEC, started the first part of the seminar, which concerned sustainable city management in the context of new energy and social challenges.
Training on quality management system for biomass heating plants
Every year biomass is becoming more and more popular as a raw material in the thermal energy sector. On 30th March this year, our Association, as part of the ENTRAIN project, organised a training on quality management in biomass-fired district heating plants.
The event started with a short welcome and introduction of the participants to the topic of the meeting and the scope of the ENTRAIN project, its results and implemented activities were presented. Then the issue of quality management was raised, which consists of supervising all the activities and tasks that must be performed to maintain the desired level of quality in specific companies and organisations. The guidelines of ISO 9001, the principles, objectives and benefits of its implementation were presented, and examples were given of existing heating plants that have already implemented a quality management system in their enterprises.
