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The Icelandic Touring Club (FÍ), in collaboration with the Healthy City of Hafnarfjörður, are offering public health walks every Wednesday in September. These are family-friendly walks which take approximately 60-90 minutes and are primarily aimed at encouraging people to get outdoors and be active in good company, thereby improving their health and quality of life. JOIN IN! Health Walks in Hafnarfjörður in […]

On Friday 30 August at 8 pm, two new exhibitions will open at Hafnarborg: All at the Same Time, Hafnarborg's autumn exhibition, curated by Andrea Arnarsdóttir and Starkaður Sigurðarson, and Prison, a new installation by the artists Olga Bergmann and Anna Hallin. The concept for Hafnarborg's autumn exhibition this year, Everything at the Same Time, is to explore how artists deal with […]

Nearly a thousand people have attended the fourteen cultural and health walks that the Healthy Town of Hafnarfjörður, in collaboration with Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjörður Museum of Local History, and the Hafnarfjörður Library, has organised this summer. Now it is time for the final walk, which will be a little different. The same walk for two nights in a row, with a guided tour on the first evening in Polish […]

In autumn 2019, a new arrangement for the catering service for pupils in Hafnarfjörður's primary schools will be introduced. The same service provider, Skólamatur ehf, will continue to provide the service in seven of the town's primary schools, while one school, Áslandsskóli, will manage its own catering. Free porridge on offer at the start of the school day At the start of the school day, porridge with milk and cinnamon is available free of charge to pupils in all schools before […]

This spring, UNICEF in Iceland launched a revolution for children with a campaign against violence under the slogan 'End the Hide-and-Seek'. In recent days, the revolution has spread across the country with Einar Hansberg, a CrossFit athlete, in a rather unusual way. Thus, Einar, his family and friends, have stopped in 36 municipalities in one week where Einar has rowed, skied or […]

The results of the maintenance audit of the City of Hafnarfjörður's equal pay system show a continued positive development towards pay equality within the municipality. Unexplained pay differences are no longer present and the deviation is further reduced between audits, now at 21%, in favour of men, and has thus decreased by 2.8% since the municipality received its equal pay certification two years ago. Maintenance certification, which was carried out […]

Residents and other interested parties are given the opportunity to submit comments/additions to the draft report from the working group on the planning of Hafnarfjörður's town centre. Comments can be submitted via the 'Better Hafnarfjörður' consultation platform, by email to hafnarfjordur@hafnarfjordur.is, or by post to Hafnarfjarðarbær, Strandgata 6, 220 Hafnarfjörður, by 20 September 2019. […]

A town council meeting has been called for Wednesday, 21 August. The formal meeting will begin at 14:00 in the town council chamber at Hafnarborg, Strandgata 34. The agenda can be accessed here. The meeting can be watched live here.

The formal school year for pupils in Hafnarfjörður's primary schools begins on Thursday, 22nd August. Just over 4,000 children will be starting school this autumn, of whom around 350 are beginning in Year 1. Starting primary school is a big step in every child's life, and at such a milestone, the partnership between home and school is extremely important. The new initiative […]

The consultation period for the amendment to the detailed plan for part of the area east of Reykjavikurveg in Hafnarfjörður – plots 1.1 and 1.4, in accordance with the approved framework plan of 15 May 2018 – has been extended until 1 September 2019. See more at https://www.hafnarfjordur.is/ibuar/skipulag/skipulag-i-kynningu/gjotur-reitir-1.1-og-1.4