We have held another meeting concerning the Norwegian Funds

The project entitled „The City as Space for Development” funded from the “Local Development” program, co-funded from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 included regular works and consultations. The Coordinating Team of „The City as Space for Development” co-funded from Norwegian Financial Mechanism held their meeting in the historical room of Zabrze City Hall today.

The most important information concerning the project performance in our city was presented at the meeting. Thanks to the Norwegian funds the investments in Zabrze will include without limitation: two brine graduation towers, a water playground and a skatepark.

The main targets of the project „Zabrze – the city as space for development” include, without limitation, the improvement of the life quality in the city through better economic and social potential of the city, the natural environment quality and the urban spaces standard, the improvement of cohesion of activities and growth of the inhabitants’ trust to the public institutions, creating standards of modern public service provision and improvement of the institutional capacities of the city administration.

In addition to the tangible effects of the project performance, the intangible ones will also be noticeable, including, without limitation: the intensification of the city development through expansion of the city specialisations, consolidated integration of the population, extending their eco awareness, making the urban space more attractive and at the same time the increased number of initiatives for active pastimes in the “new” urban space. The basic actions of the project in this scope are to initiate the process of economic-social-environmental actions in the city.

The project will be performed until the 30th April, 2024.

The maximum total qualifiable costs covered by the project amount to: PLN 15 328 498,86.

Co-funding: EUR  3 371 346,00.