THE CITYWALK PROJECT WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF VFU “CHERNORIZETS HRABAR” RECEIVED A PRESTIGIOUS AWARD IN BRUSSELS
14 October 2019
The CityWalk project, which involves Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar” and Varna Municipality, won the People's Choice Award at the 12th edition of the Regio Stars competition - for innovative projects financed by European cohesion funds. The project, which competes in the category "Building of cities resilient to climate changes", can change the environment, have good sustainability, and the positive practices can be transferred everywhere else. It has garnered the most points among the 254, 000 Europeans who have voted.
The CityWalk project brings together eight countries - Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania. Its main objective is to make cities more enjoyable and inviting to pedestrian traffic, which leads to cleaner air, has added social value and creates conditions for better physical fitness of citizens. A kind of advertising of the project became one of the photographs taken with project participants from different countries crossing a pedestrian walkway - just like the famous photograph of the four Beatles on Abbey Road. The CityWalk project is funded by the Interreg TN-Danube programme with funding from the European Regional Development Fund of EUR 1, 895, 151.
This year, 199 projects applied for the prestigious awards, of which 5 were nominated in each of the five categories. The brilliant ceremony took place in the hall of the largest congress centre in Brussels - "The Square". The Regio Stars Awards are presented for the 12th time. They are one of the highlights of the European Week of Cities and Regions in Brussels.
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