The Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG) organizes a regional conference on municipal international cooperation (MIC) and City-to-City Cooperation (C2C) on the 4th and 5th of October 2010 in Mangaung (Bloemfontein), South Africa.
The title of this conference will be “Winning through twinning, City-to-city cooperation between Flanders and Southern Africa”. During these two days we will be discussing and debating around general themes regarding the city-to-city cooperation. The draft programme can be consulted on our website.
The overall objective of this regional conference on city-to-city cooperation is to share lessons learned from the various municipal international partnerships. In that respect, the regional conference in South Africa, will be the first of a series of conferences and network events (another one will be organized in Nicaragua, in March 2011), that will build up to a closing international conference in Belgium in the fall of 2011. We consider this conference an ideal opportunity to share experiences in order to mutually enhance our vision on municipal international cooperation and to learn from each other. Furthermore, we regard this as an ideal opportunity to promote coordinated activities and future exchanges of experiences.
For the practical arrangements or further details, please contact Bert Janssens: bert.janssens@vvsg.be or xx-32-2-211 56 13.