ŁOMŻA – CITY where I LIVE AND WORK
City of Łomża ·Poland
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">A list of key barriers to development and deficits of the municipality: d</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">emography and social affairs - the biggest consequences of barriers to development, deficits and problems and Łomża’s key challenge, t</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">he size structure of local economy businesses, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Climate, energetics, road transport, smart city, l</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">eisure offers for residents and visitors</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt">Main project activities: </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">1. Environmentally friendly solutions abating low urban emissions, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">2. Ecological education, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">3. Improving levels of urban adaptation to climate change, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">4. Improving levels of urban adaptation to climate change, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">5. Implementing accessibility standards, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">6. Supporting and developing culture, rest & recreation and tourist services , </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">7. Implementing accessibility standards, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">8. Senior Citizen Policy, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">9. Reducing negative social phenomena, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">10. Vocational Education Policy, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">11. Promoting the city’s business potential, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">12.Developing business competencies and promoting entrepreneurship attitudes in the young people and children’s community, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">13. Developing institutional capacity and professional competencies of Municipal Authority and organisational unit staff members, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">14. Improving efficiency and operational standards of the Municipal Authority in Łomża, 15</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">. Co-ordinating and promoting the project.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt">The most important effects of the project: improvement of life quality of Łomża City citizens, better adaptation of local administration to the needs of citizens.</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt">Benefits of partnerships: </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">establishing a formalized institutional cooperation and to acquire good practices (especially in terms of implementing green-blue infrastructure solutions),</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"> ecological education of the society, use of the cultural potential along with the promotion of partners' economic brands and joint activities regarding the developing of competences and promotion of entrepreneurial attitudes of children and youth from Łomża city and Piątnica.</span></span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
As part of the project, we carried out six study visits under bilateral cooperation, three at each of the Partners. The cooperation included environmental, social and educational dimensions. The added value was the good practices developed under the bilateral cooperation, bringing benefits within the framework of the institutional dimension. Under environmental dimension the action was to develop environmentally friendly and low emission reducing solutions in the city. During designing new technical documentation, infrastructural solutions were applied, taking into account the needs of the natural environment, contributing to the improvement of its quality, among others by reducing exhaust emissions, noise and vibration levels. Solutions protecting the environment are used (e.g. road drainage with rainwater drainage, LED lighting). Under social dimension the aim was to increasing social inclusion and well-being - to improve the quality of standard of living of inhabitants by working with social inclusion, citizen participation, youth involvement in policy making, senior policy and engagement in society, as well as social sustainability. Under educational dimension the aim of the action was to reduce deficits in the economic dimension - mainly in the field of development and promotion of vocational education. The planned results of the project is changing the attitude towards vocational education among students and their parents in Lomza, making the process of vocational education more attractive and modernized, and adapting the educational market to the requirements of the labour market. In all above dimension we use good practice and experience that Partner share with us during workshops, study visits (in site), and on-line meetings. Extra added value is continuation the bilateral cooperation, especially under social dimension, regarding civil budget and social participation. The new partnership agreement has been signed.
Project partners
- Nordland County Council Donor project partner· Norway
- City of Bydgoszcz Project partner· Poland
- Piątnica commune Project partner· Poland