A visit to the municipality of GDYNIA, İzmir, was held on 23 January 2024 for the EU Grants Project, run by the Municipality of Karşıyaka. 

On 23 January 2024, we held the technical meetings of our “Partnership for a Twin Transition to a Green Future” project, which we coordinated under Town Twinning– II (Twinning for the Green Future) Grant Programme between Turkey and the EU. The meetings were attended by technical and managerial staff from the Municipality of Karşıyaka and the Polish Municipalities of Gdynia and the Aegean Forest Foundation, which are partners in our project. The meetings were held in a group of about 25 people.  
 
Among the topics of the meetings, which lasted almost the whole day, the projects implemented by the Municipality of Gdynia in their cities related to smart urbanization and digitization were discussed in detail. Among their creative and award-winning projects and practices, the work they have done to combat the adverse effects of climate change has included practices that have both facilitated and accelerated communication between their municipalities and citizens, as well as improved people’s quality of life. The Municipality of Karşıyaka gave detailed information on the ESDA platform software that we have developed in collaboration with the Department of Climate Change and Zero Waste and our Directorate of Information Processing, which is a major part of the reduction and compliance measures of our Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan report we issued in 2021.