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The second international workshop organized within the EnPover project
As part of the EnPover project, the second international workshop took place on 3 February 2021. During the workshop participants from Germany, Hungary and Poland had the opportunity to share their experience in tacking energy poverty. A valuable element of this event was presented by invited speakers from other countries practices bringing closer this problem both from the practical and theoretical side. In order to take full advantage of the knowledge and information gained during the prior presentations, the workshop ended with a common work on recommendations for an energy poverty awareness campaign based on the example of two hypothetical cities.
Final conference of the GRAD project: Green roofs as cities’ response to the progressing consequences of climate change
After over two years of the work on pilot green roof strategies, which foresee innovative approaches towards the achievement of local sustainable development and climate adaptation targets, the results were presented at the final conference of the GRAD project. The conference, held under the name „Green roofs as a tool for climate adaptation in urban areas”, took place on the 11th of December 2020 and gathered a significant pool of participants interested in comprehensive approaches towards green roof development in cities.
How to organise vision workshops in a city – the BEACON project training
The ToT – Training of Trainers, organised as a part of the BEACON project, took place on 15-16 October 2020. Its aim was to transfer an innovative methodology and a set of tools that will be helpful for the participants when running vision workshops on their own in their cities in the future which will concern climate neutrality, as well as mitigating climate change, addressed to selected local activists’ groups. The participants of the workshops included stakeholders and municipalities’ representatives from Bielawa, Cieszyn, Jasło, Sztum and Zamość. The training was an occasion for the participants to familiarise themselves with the available methods on how to raise ecological awareness, which they could also test. Although the training was delivered online, all the exercises were performed very enthusiastically. Thanks to it, the participants had a chance to see how interesting and innovative the tool for raising climate change awareness can be, being an opportunity to exchange ideas, deepen knowledge and spend time in a fun way at the same time. The pictures below, taken during the workshop, are the best proof for active and engaged participation encouraged by these cutting-edge methods. If it is enough for the future trainers to like these exercises so much, then what results can be achieved by delivering the whole vision workshop programme! The set of materials given to the participants is available here.
The first local training organized within the international ENTRAIN project
On 24th November 2020 the first local training within the international project ENTRAIN: Enhancing renewable heat planning for improving the air quality of communities took place. The aim of the training was to familiarize participants with the heating sector in Poland, its possibilities of cooperation with RES and to present existing good examples of objects that use local renewable energy sources for heat production.
The event started with an introduction to the ENTRAIN project itself by Ms. Anna Lachowicz - project manager in the Association of Municipalities Polish Network "Energie Cités". The main objective of the project, its stages, planned activities and expected results were discussed. This training is the first in a series of trainings for representatives of municipalities and other entities dealing with district heating, which are to ensure knowledge transfer in the above mentioned area.
Polish cities towards climate neutrality - multi-level dialogue in Warsaw
Despite the difficult situation related to the coronavirus pandemic, the “Polish cities towards climate neutrality” workshop, organised as a part of the BEACON international project, took place in Warsaw on 7-8 October 2020. Due to concern for the safety of the participants, we ensured to respect sanitary rules and we made it possible for the representatives of the regional and national level, as well as the participants from Germany, to take part in the workshop remotely.
On the first day, the representatives of 8 local governments discussed the success factors that determined the success of energy and emission reduction investments in the cities, as well as the most important challenges related to their implementation.
After the BEACON project and the workshop concept presentation, Patrycja Płonka, a project manager at the Association of Municipalities Polish Network „Energie Cités” (PNEC), presented a short overview of the legal framework and financing sources in the context of actions regarding energy efficiency, RES and improvement of air quality, thus defining the scope of discussion. The short theoretical part was followed by the practical one.
The conclusions and the possible solutions for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the tools and the support systems were summarized, and the most important ones were structured and prepared to be presented the next day to regional representatives: Ministry of Climate, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Marshal's Office of Mazowieckie Voivodeship.
