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A poster titled "What's your story" graphically presents many aspects of the event and the various town twinning activities.

'Storytelling – An ancient tradition'

Bonn, 18 May 2021. One of the oldest traditions of human learning and collective knowledge transfer is storytelling. Our Third Conference of Partnerships with Asia from 1-3 March 2021 was all about storytelling and interactive learning. Find out below how this creative method can be used for online events, and why stories enable a particularly enriching dialogue.

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A painted green globe with some houses can be seen as well as the title of the event "Local implementation of vaccination strategies and related communication in municipalities".

Expert exchange on vaccination management

Bonn, 8 April 2021. Connective Cities hosted a virtual response dialogue on Covid-19 vaccination and communication strategies, attended by eight municipalities and two municipal associations from Germany, Israel, Colombia, Serbia and Togo. The municipal representatives shared their experiences and worked out solutions together for the best possible vaccination management.

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Documentation about first UNSSC Summer Academy

Bonn, 24 February 2021. For five days in August 2020, 117 participants from 52 countries exchanged ideas and information on the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Summer Academy event, which – due to known circumstances – was held online for the first time. About the UNSCC Summer Academy there is actually published a documentation.

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Municipal Climate Partnerships

The basic aim of the project ‘Municipal Climate Partnerships’ is to strengthen the professional cooperation between German municipalities and municipalities in the Global South in the field of climate change mitigation and adaptation. These issues will be systematically integrated into the existing work of municipal partnerships. The municipal partnerships will design concrete and joint programmes of action that include objectives, measures and allocated resources for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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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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