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According to the timetable of the LIFE UrbanWind.pl project, we are building a catalog of air streams forced by human activity in urban space. We designed and built weather stations that are designed to record online data on air flows forced by human activities. They measure temperature, speed, direction and humidity of streams and send data to our base in Warsaw. Currently, two stations are installed: on the roof of the Bella company – Zakład Kompozytów Sp. z o.o. in Czosnów near Warsaw, on the Kraków Valley Golf & Country Club golf course in Paczułtowice near Krakow, the next two will be installed at facilities designated by Warsaw authorities in Warsaw, another will be installed on the Sobienie Królewskie Golf & Country Club golf course near Warsaw. A portable set is also built that will travel to designated places and collect temporary data in those places. It is important in the aspect of collecting information on air streams “under the roof” and in places where it is impossible to place our station permanently.

Contest ! Present your vision of the city of the future developed in the environment of Ecocraft – the ecological equivalent of the popular Minecraft game.

The organizers are the Veolia Polska Foundation and the UNEP / GRID-Warsaw Center, who are members of the “Partnership for Climate” Platform, to which our ECO FOR LIFE Foundation also belongs.

We invite you to participate in the competition under the slogan “We are building green Warsaw in Ecocraft” organized as part of the “Heat for Cities” program. The program is implemented in close cooperation with experts of the Office of Air Protection and Climate Policy of the City of Warsaw. Warsaw as one of the initiatives supporting the implementation of the objectives of the Climate Partnership.

Works can be submitted until January 3, 2020 until 15:00. Attractive cash prizes have been provided for the authors of the best works. Detailed information is available at http://www.cieplodlamiast.pl/warszawa and at the competition event on Facebook (We are building green Warsaw at Ecocraft, https://www.facebook.com/events/470364197150358).

3 and 4 October 2019 representation of the Support Foundation Ecology ECO FOR LIFE and the Institute of Research, Applied Sciences and New Technologies Sp. Z o.o. took part in the LIFE Kick-off Meeting Climate Change Project Conference in Brussels. As beneficiaries of the LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project, we had the opportunity to meet 31 other European projects in this field, the implementation of which is currently underway and the current guidelines and achievements of the European Commission regarding the policy Climate Change Adaptation and Climate Change Mitigation ).

Representatives of EASME (Executive Agency for Small and Medium sized Enterprises), the European Commission and NEEMO EEIG Life Team (international agency monitoring LIFE projects) made sure that all conference participants could learn as much as possible on all possible topics related to the formal implementation of projects. The scope and possibilities of cooperation resulting from participation in the LIFE program are enormous.

Good luck to all colleagues starting new, extremely interesting LIFE projects !!

The ECO for LIFE Foundation for Ecology Support and the Institute of Research, Applied Sciences and New Technologies with the LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project actively participated in the Polish Economic Summit in Siedlce.

The two-day jubilee Fifth Polish National Economic Summit in Siedlce ran under the main slogan: “State – Economy – Security”. The discussions were dominated by environmental topics, especially in the context of improving air quality in Poland, also regarding investments in renewable energy sources and national energy security. The second day of OSG is a workshop led by Energy Advisors An Energy Consulting Project for entrepreneurs, home owners, farm owners, and representatives of local government units. The advisers provided consultations and advice on the possibilities of obtaining funding for energy efficiency investments and issues related to limiting the negative impact of emissions on air quality. In this panel, the President of the Foundation Anna Niewodzka and the President of the Institute Anna Łasica-Czaplejewicz presented our LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project as a renewable energy source in a distributed system.

The organizers of the above were: the Ministry of Energy and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. The event was held under the honorary patronage of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

LIFE-UrbanWind.PL was presents as the one of best international projects on April 17, 2019, at the LIFE Information Day .
It was organized for the twelfth time by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. The conference was held in Warsaw at the MsMermaid conference center – Conference Center at The Tides (website: www.msmermaid.pl) ul. Wioślarska 8.
The purpose of the event was the inauguration at the national level of this year’s call for applications for the LIFE Program, as well as the presentation of the grant offer that the program allows, and the general rules for applying for funding in the 2019 call. It was also an opportunity to learn about ongoing or implemented projects and exchange experiences with current Beneficiaries of LIFE. We hope that the projects presented during the event will become an inspiration for future applicants.
Information Day program

The LIFE 2019 Information Day consisted of a general session and three thematic sessions.

The general (morning) session was addressed to people who are preparing to submit an application in the LIFE recruitment and are looking for basic knowledge about the Program and its principles.

Thematic sessions (afternoon) were devoted directly to the main priority areas of LIFE. Sample, best projects were presented at various stages of implementation, thanks to which it was possible to learn different perspectives of participation in the program.

– Session I Environment and resource efficiency – the theme was air protection projects
– Session II Nature and biodiversity – was devoted to species protection
– Session III Mitigation of climate change – with particular emphasis on market projects

Additionally, during the event, a dozen or so Program Beneficiaries presented their projects at special information stands. Therefore, conference participants had the opportunity to directly exchange information and experience from the implementation of ongoing projects.