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11th World Urban Forum - Be there on site or virtually

Bonn, 27 June 2022. From 26 to 30 June 2022, the World Urban Forum will take place in Katowice, Poland, under the motto 'Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future'. Organised and conducted by UN-Habitat in cooperation with the respective host country, the World Urban Forum (WUF) is the world's most important conference on urbanisation and sustainable urban development. The German Pavilion offers a series of interesting events that can also be followed via livestream.

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Urban Diplomacy Exchange: Climate protection at the top of the agenda

Bonn, 7 June 2022. More than fifty German and U.S. municipal representatives met in mid-May 2022 for the first virtual partnership conference in the "Urban Diplomacy Exchange" project. They identified many joint topics for their future exchange of expertise. Accordingly, climate protection and climate change adaptation, but also the topic of social cohesion are at the top of the agenda.

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U7 Mayors Summit: Cities as drivers of change

Bonn, 26 April 2022. In the context of the German G7 Presidency, the Urban7 Cities Alliance, involving the German Association of Cities, ICLEI and the Global Parliament of Mayors and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and our Service Agency, is hosting a virtual cities summit on 3 May 2022. The theme of the event is: Embracing the Urban World: Cities as Drivers of Change for Peace, Democracy and Sustainability.

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Municipal Know-how for Host Communities in the Middle East Programme

The aim of the programme is to facilitate a peer-to-peer exchange between participating municipalities and to strengthen host municipalities in the Middle East region. The partner municipalities work together to develop constructive solutions to local challenges that have been exacerbated by the rapid increase in the refugee population.

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Connective Cities

Worldwide networking between urban actors from politics, administration, industry, science and civil society and supporting a systematic and application-oriented exchange of experience and development of innovative ideas for urban projects - these are objectives and services of Connective Cities. Connective Cities is a partnership between the German Association of Cities, Engagement Global and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

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