1. MACEDONIAN PROJECT JOURNEY
What is the name of your lab, team, entity or organisation?
December 2016 – January 2017
Understanding heating practices in Skopje Valley
Mapped heating practices of 5044 households (3% of total number) in Skopje Valley. Used ‘facilitated’ - as we call it- crowdsourcing method to collect geo-tagged data w/mobile app Placeformer
Findings #SkopjeSeZagreva
Skopje Lab –
City of Skopje Innovation Center
December 2016
Changed challenge question and data source
What are people’s patterns and behaviors related to heating, that contribute to air pollution most?
Data source: facilitated crowdsourcing
August 2016
CHALLENGE
How to measure/determine the pollution at micro level as a prerequisite for designing proper local actions?
Data source explored: big-data and bus sensors
What is the name of your project?
Reducing air pollution in Skopje
What is your project about?
Understanding people’s patterns and behaviors related to household heating practices as a source of pollution and designing (and in future) implementing local actions to reduce the air pollution in Skopje
March 2017
Stakeholders Workshop for validation of the results
Quality of data validated.
Based on the data, action oriented challenges defined focusing on household heating.
Action on public transport also defined.
June-July/ 2017
Data modeling and scenarios development
Expert drafting and mapping actions that will help reduce the air pollution. Developed #Roadmap for success
June 2017
New challenges defined
How might we change the heating practices of the households (particularly low income ones) to reduce air pollution in Skopje?
How might we increase the use of public bus transport in Skopje?
July 2017
PM10
PM2,5
NOx CO
SOx
Broad stakeholders engagement
Presenting the findings and proposed actions for #SkopjeSeZagreva and the Roadmap to the public administration and the all relevant stakeholders. This helped us demystify the sources and changed the way they look into the problem
October/November 2017
August-September/ 2017
OUTCOME
The roadmap finalized and adopted by the Government as national plan for addressing air pollution in Skopje
Pilot actions being developed and tested.
Action
Description:
Target by 2020
Target by 2025
Urban
Rural
Number of households to covered by one of the measures
55.8%
22.2%
81.3%
42%
will meet the most stringent criteria for an energy efficient facility
8960
2660
15600
4290
will use more efficient firewood stoves
9000
3100
20400
6770
will use pellet stoves
6630
790
7280
1460
will use heat pumps
8140
2770
16280
5390
will use natural gas stoves
930
280
2700
450
Increased share of central heating system users
3000 /
10000
2025 Roadmap designed
Local very targeted actions designed to reduce the emissions from heating for 62%, including non-traditional educational approaches, partnerships with private sector and alternative financing models. Innovative products such is air-purifying billboard also included and being prototyped.