Technicians from the Cieza City Council participated in the Green Innovation Camp in Vilnius, Lithuania, as part of the LIFE GreenMe5 project, which is co-financed by the European Union's Life program and coordinated by the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia.
Sources from the Department of the Environment report that the so-called "Green Innovation Camps" are thematic meetings that bring together specialists in one of the five pillars of the Green City Accord to discuss and debate challenges, advances, and best practices in that area.
Air quality
This time, the focus was on air quality, a crucial issue for European cities. During these days in Vilnius, European Green Capital 2025 and a partner municipality in the project, "various aspects related to air quality were addressed. The latest developments in the recent European Air Quality Directive were discussed, European initiatives and best practices for improving air quality and monitoring it in European cities were shared, and citizen science was learned by participating in a workshop to build an air quality and noise level measuring station that can be used by the city council to record data for the municipality of Cieza."
Furthermore, the same sources add, "we participated in an event organized under the principles of the New European Bauhaus, with the aim of involving the citizens of the Fabijonikės district, where a pilot action of the project will be carried out."
Within the framework of this project, the Cieza City Council is moving forward with the pilot project to renaturalize a school playground. The drafting project has already been awarded, and the successful team is working to further develop the project, which "seeks to transform this space into a more sustainable and friendly environment for the educational community."
The next Green Innovation Camp will focus on water and will be held in November in the city of Murcia, also a project partner.
Source: Cieza City Council.
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