Academy and CPP participants attended a seminar in Doboj
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Doboj, 27th of January 2014 - Organised by the German liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation a seminar for liberal councilmen from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in Doboj, titled "Environmental policy and urbanism on the local level".
The Croatian People's Party - liberal democrats and the Academy were represented by Vera BoÅ¡njak, Head of Slavonski Å amac Municipality and Team CPP member on the national level and Kristina BrleÄić, deputy Head of Slavonski Å amac Municipality. Also, one of the subjects was moderated by Nada MarÄ‘etko Å koro, Head of the Sector in administration for energy efficiency of the Ministry of construction and spatial planning of the Republic of Croatia.
The seminar was opened by Adnan Huskić, coordinator of the Foundation for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Charles du Vinage, director of the Foundation for the countries of the West Balkans and highlighted that they hope that in the next three years they will cooperate even better with liberal parties from the West Balkans with the goal of increasing the number of liberal partners.
Nada Marđetko Škoro also lectured on the seminar who held a lecture about energy efficiency and building design as the greatest potential of saving. She expressed the striving of Croatia that until 2020, through the reconstruction of existing buildings and constructing energy efficient buildings reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy spending by 20 percent, and increase the use of renewable energy sources.
Nasiha Pozder from the Faculty of architecture in Sarajevo spoke about the modern problems of urbanism. Pozder sees as the greatest problems the lack of sustainable spatial planning, a non-usable strategy of development, but also a disregard of plan documentation and non-planned/illegal construction. She sees the solution of the same problems on the insisting on sustainable and responsible planning, fighting non-planned construction, the intensified work of inspections and tougher sanctions, while in the sphere of the environment she highlights the importance of planning in conjunction with spatial possibilities and sustainable ecologically acceptable infrastructural systems, and of course, the popularisation of cycling with the goal of reducing motor traffic.
Toni Richard Crisolli from the German liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundatin for freedom introduced the "Smart Cities Initiative 2014/2016" project to everyone present which encompasses a broad spectrum of terms, and its ultimate goal is to find a way how to, on the local political level, contribute to the creation of "smart cities". The project will last three years and specific subjects would be tackled each year and good practical examples would be searched for. Dušan Dinić, the coordinator of the Foundation introduced the participants with the task of creating a positional paper, the methodology of its creation and its importance.