On the 15th of April, 2014 “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works announced about the start of a contest “We are the city” for the best social projects among social organizations, municipal institutions and citizens of the city. In 2014 the plant increased financing of the contest to 1 mln. UAH, comparing with the 2013, when the project was allocated 700 thousand UAH.
The contest “We - are the city” takes place in Zaporozhye city alongside with the Metinvest contest “City by our own hands”, together with the nine cities from Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Lugansk regions. Its intention is to increase the social activity of people and support the current projects focused on improving the quality of life in all host cities of Metinvest. In 2014, the contest aims to implement projects in new directions – environmental care, development of the business environment and the creation of new vacancies.
“In 2014 we made a decision to expand the budget of the contest to 1 million UAH, and to expand the maximum amount of the grant from 50 to 100 thousand. Steel plant gives a great possibility to all caring citizens not only to suggest their ideas on the development and improvement of their native Zaporozhye city but also to implement these ideas in life,” stated the General Director of “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works, Rostyslav Shurma.
The contest will be realized in three stages: participants training and filing the applications, projects review and expertise, selection of a winner, and implementation of the most interesting and promising suggestions. It is possible to file an application to the contest till May 19, 2014. The projects will be evaluated by the council of experts based on the approved criteria – relevance and feasibility, the level of design development, originality, social significance, and project sustainability after the funding termination.
For more detailed information about the Contest regulations for the best social project “We are the city” and to file an application, please visit the website of “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works, under the chapter responsibility/Social policy/We are the city.
It bears reminding that in 2013 citizens of Zaporozhye filed about 130 applications for the contest “We are the city”, of which 14 social projects had won. For the implementation of the best 14 ideas, “Zaporizhstal” Integrated Iron and Steel Works allocated up to 50 thousand UAH as a grant for each project, totaling 700 thousand UAH. The brightest projects that have been implemented include “Mobile Social Bus”, “School of Computer Literacy for Senior Citizens”, the Festival of healthy living “Street workout”, and specialized training “The World Around Me” for the rehabilitation of weak-eyed children.
In 2013, in other cities hosted by Metinvest, around 500 applications were filed for the contest “City by our hands,” which is two times more than in 2012. As a result, 95 winners were selected – the authors of the innovative projects. The investments of Metinvest amounted to about 4.6 million UAH. This way, with the assistance of enterprises from Krivoy Rog, Metinvest, there was the opening of a bicycling section, children’s bicycling community, and bicycle park.