The exchange event brings German municipal services experts together with municipal actors from other countries to discuss how municipal actors and practitioners can deal with the challenges involved in effectively communicating with the population in times of the Covid-19 crisis. This topic was suggested by municipal practitioners taking part on other events of this series that expressed their concern and recognize it as a recurrent challenge. Among other issues, the event will focus on the challenge of providing credible, reliable and timely relevant information concerning the pandemic and its impacts to different actors and groups. Furthermore, the strategies for communicating emergency plans and actions will be discussed. Practical examples will be presented by experts from Germany and abroad, and the overall aim of the event is to achieve a joint exchange of experiences.
An involvement of experts from municipalities and practitioners in the field of municipal services can provide the right platform to pool experiences, discuss challenges and generate ideas to better respond to the challenges imposed by the pandemic.
The aim of the exchange is to get to know good practice examples from municipalities with different local conditions. Here, the interest is mainly in pragmatic solutions and approaches that can be applied or adapted to the different regional contexts. Furthermore, the event will offer a platform to discuss the challenges around the theme of crisis management and support municipalities in an open and interactive exchange of experience. Ideas for concrete implementation measures can be further supported by Connective Cities through follow-up exchanges with relevant experts.
