GDYNIA WITH THE PRIZE FOR QUALITY OF LIFE

Out of the quarter of a million cities in the world analyzed, Gdynia – as the only city from Poland – was among the best 22. Detailed hearings of representatives of all the cities qualified for the last stage were held in Rome in the past days. Eventually, Gdynia in the category from 150 thousand to 400 thousand inhabitants found itself on the podium, winning third place. The co-organizer of the competition is UNEP – an agency of the United Nations, established to protect the environment.

– For years, we have been consistently implementing the policy of sustainable development, which aims to secure all the needs of the current residents, as well as the next generations of Gdynia’s inhabitants. That is why we are very pleased that a group of international experts have confirmed the rightness of our actions in the economic, social and environmental areas – says Wojciech Szczurek, President of Gdynia.

LivCom Awards is an extremely prestigious and the only ranking in the world that focuses on the quality of life, trying to reward and indicate those cities where one simply lives best (liveable). The review and evaluation of the presentation is performed by an international panel of jurors consisting of environmental and landscape management specialists. In previous editions the finalists included Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Swedish Malmo, Australian Port Fairy and Honolulu (USA).

– The competition procedure lasted several months. Already in Rome itself, we were obliged to give a nearly an hour-long presentation about Gdynia talking about local solutions focused on residents and quality of life. We had to prove each of them with hard data. This award is extremely pleasing and is a kind of confirmation that as Gdynia we are doing really well – explains Bartosz Bartoszewicz, Vice-President for Quality of Life.

The aim of the LivCom Awards is to develop and share the best international practices and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants by creating cities that are friendly to life. This year’s edition was strongly focused on the problems related to climate change. Each year the communities that meet at the LivCom Awards finals exchange best practices and experiences and join forces to face common challenges.

Bartosz Bartoszewicz, Gdynia’s Vice-President for Quality of Life and Małgorzata Czaja, Head of the independent lecture on Quality of Life and Management Systems Integration at Gdynia City Hall with a commemorative diploma from LivCom Awards 2019 // photo: Kamil Złoch

The final of this year’s LivCom Awards 2019 was held at the University of Rome Tor Vergata on 11-13 December. To the finals 22 cities and 34 projects from over 30 countries were invited. Presentations were divided into 5 categories according to the population of cities. Gdynia was in the strict finals with Finnish Oulu, Ambon from Indonesia, Xicheng District in China and Bergen in Norway giving way only to the last two.

The achievements of Gdynia were presented at the conference by Małgorzata Czaja, the manager of an independent paper on the quality of life and integration of management systems, Małgorzata Czaja, the coordinator of the first in Poland UrbanLab Gdynia – Przemysław Górski and the vice-president of Gdynia for the quality of life – Bartosz Bartoszewicz.

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Uprzejmie informujemy, że od 25 maja 2018 r. obowiązuje tzw. RODO, czyli Rozporządzenie Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2016/679 z dnia 27 kwietnia 2016 r. w sprawie ochrony osób fizycznych w związku z przetwarzaniem danych osobowych i w sprawie swobodnego przepływu takich danych oraz uchylenia dyrektywy 95/46/WE.

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