ClairCity newsletter ClairCity newsletter July 2018 | Page 5

Sosnowiec conference
In April we hosted our annual
conference in Sosnowiec, Poland, with
local and international participants
ClairCity hosted a public conference on “Protecting
citizen health: Mitigating air pollution from domestic
heating and transport” on 25th April 2018, alongside
our consortium meeting with our External Advisory
Board.
Over fifty organisations, individuals and groups joined
us for the day to discuss the themes, identify
challenges and share solutions. We included
presentations from the Mayor of Sosnowiec alongside
air pollution campaign groups, academics working on
air quality in India and Europe, policy officers from
councils across the EU, and ClairCity project staff. The
differences in the starting points for different cities and
regions was clear, but it was also interesting to see
parallels in some of the challenges they faced.
Issues raised by our attendees included the increasing
awareness of air pollution in Poland from a low
baseline, discussions around air filters and purifiers for
schools, the impact of imported older cars from other
EU countries into the Polish market, and the impact of
improved bus services and bike sharing schemes.
Involving stakeholders
The final stage of the ClairCity ‘Delphi’ process has
been completed in Bristol. The Stakeholder Dialogue
Workshop is the fourth element in our process of
collecting and channelling citizen viewpoints through
surveys and meetings, and was conducted in June at
the City Hall in Bristol.
In this final stage, the outputs from each strand of
public engagement - two rounds of questionnaires, a
citizen workshop, the ClairCity Skylines game and a
Mutual Learning Workshop for stakeholder
organisations - are brought together. Representatives
from relevant sectors including health, housing,
transport, community development and air quality
participate to identify more detail on exactly how
citizen proposals could be enacted, any impediments
5
to their incorporation and whether further mitigation
would be required, for example to protect more
vulnerable groups or ensure positive outcomes across
geographical areas. Jo Barnes, project lead for Delphi
said, “The Stakeholder Dialogue Workshop is the
opportunity to bring citizen voices together and turn
them into quantifiable, achievable goals for the city.”
Stakeholder Dialogue Workshops will be held in each
partner city and region after their game has been
launched in the next nine months.