Online training dedicated to the Convention of Mayors

The EU project “Convention of Mayors - East” in Moldova held on 27 October 2020, an online training dedicated to raising awareness about participation in the Convention of Mayors.

The event was attended by representatives of the EU Delegation to Moldova, the support structures at the national level and representatives of several mayoralties. The training was dedicated to the passive signatories of the Convention of Mayors in Moldova (CoM) and potential signatories. After presenting a number of successful examples and best practices at national level (signatories from the Republic of Moldova) and regionally (signatories from Ukraine), the participants reconfirmed their desire to renew the state under the Covenant of Mayors and make efforts to develop local action plans. As for September 2020, there are 17 Covenant signatories in a “suspended” status, including Chisinau municipality. These municipalities did not manage to develop or approve the Sustainable Energy Action Plan during 1 year after joining to the CoM initiative. Automatically, their membership in the CoM was suspended by the system and will become active member as soon as they upload their SEAP/SECAP on Covenant of Mayor website.

“ECOFEŞTELIŢA” - CREATIVE AND RECYCLING STUDIO, CREATED INSIDE “VASILE MOGA” GYMNASIUM

The need to create the studio arose in response of the Feşteliţa community to the European Union’s initiative to become actively involved in preventing the spread of COVID-19, through the Energy Efficiency Project. The studio was equipped with high-performance sewing and embroidery machines, with fabrics and other materials necessary for specific work in the field of tailoring and reconditioning of different materials and things.

Photo: Mayor of Festelita Currently, the main activity carried out in the creative workshop is the sewing of protective masks for the community.

The workshop is available to the whole community, especially to the high school students, so the technological education classes, but also the extra-curricular ones will take place inside it, the students will benefit from specialized trainings in the field of clothing design, but also other creative fields. It is also important that through the active involvement of students in the activities of the workshop, it will increase their social responsibility for environmental protection by practicing recycling activities, as an objective pursued by the Energy Efficiency Project.

The workshop is part of the project “Creating the center of excellence by piloting energy efficiency technologies and demonstration sources of renewable energy in the village of Feşteliţa”, funded by the European Union through the EU programme “Covenant of Mayors - Demonstration Projects” (CoM-DeP).