Notice from the Civil Contingencies Department of the National Police Commissioner and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer: Civil Contingencies Level lowered from Danger to Emergency due to COVID-19. The Chief Constable of Police, in consultation with the Director of Public Health, has decided to lower the Civil Contingencies Level from Danger to Emergency due to COVID-19. The downgrade from emergency to alert level was declared on 12 February, as the spread of COVID-19 in the community was being successfully brought under control. This […]
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Notice regarding a working day at nurseries in the capital region
Urgent notice – opening until 12 noon on Thursday 25 March. All nurseries in the capital region will open at 12 noon tomorrow due to stricter public health measures coming into effect at midnight. To implement the revised arrangements, the municipalities of the capital region have decided that the working day at nurseries will be until midday tomorrow, Thursday. The aim of this measure is to ensure that operations […]
Vinabær takes the first spadeful
The group behind Vinabær has now broken ground on its future premises at Stuðlaskarði 2 in the Skarðshlíðarhverfi area. The Vinabær Operations Company is a limited company owned by six individuals and their families, whose purpose is to provide services to the residents of Vinabær, and the company will oversee the construction of the building at Stuðlaskárði. It is planned that the flats will be ready […]
Nordic Day is on 23rd March today.
Nordic Day is celebrated on 23 March every year. This year marks 70 years since Hafnarfjörður became a member of the Nordic sister city chain, joining with Frederiksberg in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, Bærum in Norway and Hämeenlinna in Finland. Hafnarfjörður also has the twin towns of Tvöroyri in the Faroe Islands and Illulissat in Greenland. Cooperation between the towns began after the Second World War when […]
We remind you of the Covid-19 community agreement.
In light of recent events, the community pledge is reproduced below, with a kind request for the full and active participation of everyone. In light of recent news, it is worth reminding everyone of the community agreement. An agreement which has been in force since Covid-19 arrived in the country in March 2020. We would like to remind you about the community pledge Chcielibyśmy […]
The Radar for Tourism in the Capital Region
Yesterday, Páll Björgvin Guðmundsson, CEO of SSH, and Ásta Kristín Sigurjónsdóttir, CEO of the Icelandic Travel Cluster, signed an agreement for the Radar in the capital region. The Radar is an innovation and development project by the Icelandic Travel Cluster and is a specific tool intended for managers in the travel industry and related sectors who want to increase their innovation capacity, accelerate important change processes and gain increased insight and […]
Students at Víðistaðaskóli establish our education system
The association Our Education System was founded by Year 10 pupils at Víðistaðaskóli in November 2020, and the group behind it wishes to highlight and actively participate in the conversation about how to update and improve the Icelandic education system in line with modern times, needs and challenges. The students base their ideas on their own primary school experience, the experiences of friends and […]
Hafnarborg's Autumn Exhibition 2021 – winning proposal
The Art Council of Hafnarborg has selected *Community of Sensing Beings*, curated by Wiola Ujazdowska and Hubert Gromny, as the autumn exhibition for 2021. By inviting a diverse group – artists, scholars and others – to participate in the exhibition, the curators aim to create a platform where multiple voices meet and different possibilities of expression and perception are explored. In this way, the exhibition will […]
World Water Day is today – what is water worth?
What is water worth? The United Nations has celebrated World Water Day on 22 March since 1993. The UN's aim with the day is, among other things, to raise people's awareness of the essential need for access to clean water, but today, around 2.3 billion people lack access to safe water. One of the United Nations' Global Goals is precisely to ensure […]
Formal graduation from the 65+ Multifaceted Health Promotion Programme
The formal graduation from the 'Comprehensive Health Promotion for 65+ in Hafnarfjörður – a Path to a Successful Later Life' project, run by Janus Health Promotion, took place at Hafnarborg on Tuesday, 2 March. This is the third group to reach this milestone, but the project began in early 2018. A group of participants who have completed this two-year project […]