At the beginning of October, a series of training courses for the inhabitants of the Gryfino Commune on setting up home rain gardens began. The first training took place in Drzenin and was attended by 20 instructors of village centers run by the Gryfino Community Center and members of the Country Housewives Association.
On a beautiful autumn Saturday, 17 th of September 2022, took place the first Gryfino Green Public Forum.
Whole “green activities” took place in the relaxing atmosphere of the palace garden in Gryfino: an extremely energetic jazz concert performed by Sylwester Ostrowski and Dorrey Lin Lyles, joint planting of spring flower bulbs (CebuLOVE!), games for children, eco-workshops (making flower bombs and painting reusable shopping bags), a lecture on the importance of urban greenery and a competition with plant prizes, tasty and healthy refreshments.
200 people took part in an eco bike rally on the route from Gryfino to Chwarstnica. The youngest cyclists were 2 years old and the oldest 73!
The workshops are aimed at training the employees of the Town and Commune Office in Gryfino in implementing modern and ecological investments in the field of green and blue infrastructure. The training was organized by Icelandic engineers from Verkis, the project partner. The topics of the second workshop was focused on planning, design and management …
A delegation of Icelandic engineers from Verkis visited Gryfino for two days. The purpose of the visit was visiting green areas in the city, which will be developed with greenery and small recreational architecture as part of the project “Adaptation to climate change through the development of green and blue infrastructure in Gryfino”.
In March will take place the first workshop meeting with the project partner: Verkis hf. The joint work of experts from Poland and Iceland will be concerned to a topic of understanding the local needs and environmental conditions of our city.
The tree adoption program is addressed to the inhabitants of the Gryfino Commune and aims to teach responsibility for public green areas, in particular greenery care.
On 22th of December 2021, the Mayor of the Town and Commune of Gryfino – Mieczysław Sawaryn, signed a grant contract for the implementation of green and blue infrastructure in Gryfino.
Project beneficiary:
Gryfino Commune
www.gryfino.pl
Project partner:
Verkis hf
www.verkis.com
Project is co-financed by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area for 2014-2020 under the Program "Environment, energy and climate changes"