The Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic has supported projects for action cities and greener schools in the field of climate change from EEA and Norwegian grants within the SK-Climate programme
The Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic as a Programme operator of the SK-Climate programme (financed by EEA and Norway Grants 2014 - 2021), on 6 November 2020 based on the recommendations of the Selection Committee approved the project proposals under the Calls ACC01 and ACC02 titled as “Action plans for mitigation and adaptation implemented by local authorities in urban areas” (ClimaUrban) addressed to a Slovak cities with a population over 15,000 and under the Call ACC03 titled as “Awareness raising on climate change mitigation and adaptation at schools” (ClimaEdu) for primary and secondary schools.
The project Beneficiaries in their projects will also cooperate with the project partners from Programme donor countries (i.e. Norway and the Island) these partnerships will also contribute to the development of bilateral cooperation between the Slovak Republic and donor countries.
Overall 6 Slovak cities were supported in the total amount of 8.3 million EUR and 28 schools in the total amount of 1 million EUR.
Supported Slovak cities will be able to increase their resilience against the climate change and their ability to respond to the climate change through the systematic planning and implementation of specific mitigation and adaptation measures to improve living conditions in urban areas.
Thanks to grants support, primary and secondary schools will be able to contribute raising pupils' awareness on reaction to the climate change mitigation and adaptation in everyday life through theoretical curriculums as well as through the implementation of specific physical measures in the school areas.
The Programme Operator of the SK-Climate programme truly believes, that thanks to well-implemented projects, We will be able jointly fulfill the main goals of the programme i.e. increase climate change mitigation and adaption to afford living on a cleaner and greener planet.
