A team from the Belarusian city of Polack visited the world-famous Festival of Lights in Lyon in December 2017. While in France, the study trip participants had the opportunity to get first-hand experience of the role of illumination during city festivals.
According to an EU press release, the city of Polack is going to hold its own light festival next year. In Lyon, the delegation from Polack had a chance to meet the organising team of the Fête des Lumières and see dazzling light installations in the city centre. They took note of dozens of ideas on how to organise such events and are willing to share them with other cities.
The study tour to Lyon was conducted as part of the project “PubLiCity: energy efficient modernization of public lighting in the city of Polack”. The project is funded by the European Union under the EU4Energy initiative.
The EU4Energy initiative covers all EU support to improve energy supply, security and connectivity, as well as to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewables in the Eastern Partner countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. It does this by financing projects and programmes that help to reform energy markets and to reduce national energy dependence and consumption. Over the longer term, this makes energy supply more reliable, transparent and affordable, thus reducing energy poverty and energy bills for both citizens and the private sector.
