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The Riga City Municipality Urban Development Department invites residents to participate in a survey on Urban Air Mobility (UAM).

This survey has been developed within the framework of the CITYAM project, funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme (2023–2025). The survey will be conducted simultaneously in several European cities. Urban Air Mobility (UAM) includes various types of drones and their use in the airspace, as well as their take-off and landing sites.

The aim of this survey is to engage residents, raise awareness about UAM, assess public opinion, and integrate UAM into the municipality’s agenda. The survey will be open until 19 November 2025.

Your responses will be anonymous and analyzed in a general form. Completing the survey will take up to 15 minutes.

More information about the CITYAM project:
https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/cityam-interreg-baltic-sea-region-green-mobility/#summary

The Riga City Municipality, in cooperation with Latvian and international partners, is implementing the project “Change(K)now!”. The aim of the project is to reduce the amount of single-use food packaging in food supply and catering systems, as well as to raise awareness among businesses and residents, encouraging a shift towards the reuse of food packaging.

Eight cities from the Baltic Sea region – including Liepāja, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Riga, Tallinn and others – are participating in the project to explore the best solutions for transitioning to reusable tableware at public events. The project is implemented within the framework of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme, Climate-Neutral Societies / Circular Economy. More information about the project is available here.

Riga City Municipality invites visitors of Riga’s 824th Birthday celebrations to share their opinion on the reusable cup deposit system at the celebration venues – 11. novembra krastmala, Victory Park, and Vērmanes Garden.

Completing the survey will take approximately 2 minutes. The survey is anonymous, and responses will be processed only in aggregated form.

Project “Mobility Justice for All: Framing Safer, Healthier and Happier Streets (JUST STREETS)” 

Riga City Development Department is one of the project partners of the “JUST STREETS” project which is implemented within the “Horizon Europe” program. 

The goal of the project is to promote mobility justice, safety and accessibility of public spaces for the most marginalized groups of our society (including the elderly, children, women, disabled people, people cycling, walking and other micro-mobility users) by planning public space improvements and testing enhancements in the selected pilot site area – the intersection of Meža Street and Puķu Street. 

With the help of this survey, we aim to gather public opinion and satisfaction with the current situation at the pilot site.

Please Note: 

• The survey will be open until 31.10.2025. 
• The survey will take up to 10 minutes to complete. 
• This survey is conducted before the interventions at the pilot site are introduced, and a follow-up survey will be conducted after the interventions are completed.
• At the end of the survey, you will find a section where you could leave us your contact information (e-mail) in case you would like to be informed about any news regarding the project.
• This survey is anonymous, and your personal data is protected. You can always reach out to us at Santa.Borkovica@riga.lv if you would like to either change or remove your data.
• By participating in this survey, you are giving consent on the use of your data for the purpose of research, education and policymaking purposes related to the JUST STREET project. If you are unable to give consent (under the age of 16 or otherwise abled, please ask a parent or guardian to assist you in this survey.

We invite residents to contribute to The map of public art in Riga by adding art and design objects located in publicly accessible spaces.

If you notice that a mural, sculpture, environmental object, unique building decoration, monument, or memorial plaque you know is missing from the map, please fill out the form and indicate the location of the object on the map!

Each submission will be reviewed and added to the map after the campaign ends.

Until August 20, the Riga Municipality invites residents’ associations that wish to clean up a municipal land plot and create a more attractive environment in their neighborhood to apply for municipal support – waste collection containers, topsoil and compost for setting up lawns and flowerbeds, as well as grass seeds.

Any residents’ association registered in Riga, including apartment owners’ associations, is welcome to apply. Residents must select a municipal land plot in their neighborhood where they wish either to collect litter or to create, for example, a new flowerbed or lawn. Land ownership can be checked on the municipality’s geospatial data website: georiga.lv.

Applications received will be reviewed and coordinated with the land plot manager. If the demand exceeds the available support, applications will be processed and approved in the order they were received, also taking into account the distribution among neighborhoods.

The planned support is expected to be available in the second half of September this year.

For any questions, residents are encouraged to contact their neighborhood coordinator. Contact information can be found here: https://www.riga.lv/lv/strukturvieniba/apkaimju-koordinatori.

Residents of Riga are encouraged to share their views by June 30th on locations in the city where new bicycle parking spots should be installed.

When submitting your idea, make sure the site is on land owned by the municipality, and that there will be enough space for pedestrians without inconveniencing their movement.

The Riga Neighborhood Residents’ Center is implementing the URBACT IV program’s innovation transfer network project “2Nite”. The project aims to study residents’ feeling of safety in Purvciems during nighttime. Based on the collected data, solutions will be developed to improve the sense of safety in this neighborhood.

To gather residents’ opinions, several engagement methods are being used. One of them is a digital survey. In the survey, residents have the opportunity to mark on a map the places in Purvciems where they feel unsafe at night and provide reasons for their feelings. In the survey, residents have the opportunity to mark on a map the places in Purvciems where they feel unsafe at night and provide reasons for their feelings.

The survey’s target audience includes residents who live, work, study, or frequently visit Purvciems, as well as those who only pass through the area in their daily routines but have noticed unsafe spots.

The survey results will be presented in a compiled form at the Riga Evening and Nighttime Forum, which will take place on May 15, 2025. More information about the project can be found here.

2025. On March 26, 2025, the Riga City Council adopted decision to approve the 1st version of the Riga Smart City Guidelines 2025-2030 and to submit it for public consultation.

The Riga Smart City Guidelines 2025–2030 is a policy planning document that defines the municipality’s strategic direction for smart city development.

Riga Municipality invites residents associations to apply for support by March 20 if they wish to improve a municipal land plot and create a more attractive environment in their neighborhood. The support includes waste collection containers, topsoil and compost for lawns and flower beds, as well as grass seeds.

Any residents’ association registered in Riga, including apartment owners associations, is invited to apply. Residents must choose a municipal area in their neighborhood where they wish to either collect waste or create a new space for a flower bed or lawn. Land ownership can be verified on the municipality’s geospatial data portal georiga.lv.

To apply for support and specify the type of assistance needed, an application form must be completed.

For any questions, please contact the coordinator of your neighborhood. Contact information can be found here: https://www.riga.lv/lv/strukturvieniba/rigas-apkaimju-iedzivotaju-centrs#apkaimju-koordinatori.

The Riga Energy Agency, in partnership with Riga Technical University, SIA “Rīgas namu pārvaldnieks”, and energy service company “RENESCO,” is implementing the “RenewALL” project – financing residential block renovations through an energy efficiency agreement. The goal of the project is to introduce a block renovation approach in Riga, thereby promoting the renovation of multi-apartment buildings throughout the city.

Riga residents who were interested in participating in the project and renovating their apartment building, as well as in improving the surrounding environment and infrastructure, were invited to register their contact information so that pilot residential quarter could be identified.