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ÖREBRO
Örebro is a beautiful town in the very heart of Sweden. The population of about 135 000 makes it the seventh largest town in the country. Among the residents are immigrants from around 150 different countries.
With its closeness to Stockholm (200 km), Gothenburg [......]
ALESSANDRIA
Alessandria is a city and comune in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plane between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, c. 90 km southeast of Turin. Alexandria is an important road and railway marshalling [......]
AMADORA
In Lisbon Metropolitan area, the City of Amadora is an intercultural community, with a wide diversity of population. Amadora considers the cultural diversity as an added value for the city. Different cultures contribute to the enrichment of the city [......]
ARBAOUA - Territorial Community
Arbaoua is a city in Morocco. It is located in the region of Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen.
BÜYÜKÇEKMECE MUNICIPALITY
"More Modern Büyükçekmece, Happier People from Büyükçekmece"
Büyükçekmece Municipality was established as a township. Büyükçekmece has been well-known of it’s agricultural and touristic potential. It showed a huge development in 1980s and it’s population [......]
BRAILA
Located in the South-East of Romania, on the Romanian Plain, Br?ila occupies over 4765,8 km², and has 363.980 inhabitants, of which 214,045 live in urban areas.
BRUSSELS Capital Region and its 19 municipalities
At the moment, the territory of the Region of Brussels-Capital, made up of 19 Brussels Municipalities, extends over 162 km2. On January 1st, 2010, the Region of Brussels-Capital numbered 1.089.538 inhabitants. The Brussels Region is the only one organised in [......]
CANDELARIA - Tenerife
CASSANO DELLE MURGE
The community, having participated in the 2011 edition of the European Local Democracy Week, made contact with other communities of Mediterranean countries as well as with the countries from which the immigrants who arrive in the town of Cassano originated. [......]
Chania
CHEFCHAOUEN - Maroc
The Urban Community of Chefchaouen, established in 1928, was given a centralized system in 1960. Through administrative reform, the town was given a Community Council, according to the decentralisation plan implemented by the Moroccan government. Until now, the town [......]
Chemnitz
City of Reggio Calabria - Metropolitan Area
Reggio is the biggest and the most populated city in Calabria, southern Italy, and is the seat of the Council of Calabrian government. Reggio is located on the "toe" of the Italian peninsula and is separated from the island of Sicily by the Strait of Messina. It is [......]
City of Verona
Verona is a city straddling the Adige river in Veneto, northern Italy, with approximately 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of northeast Italy. The metropolitan area [......]
COMINES-WARNETON
With its 6 000 hectares and 18 000 inhabitants, Comines-Warneton strives to be an "Open City" for all.
Its isolation is a source of local solidarity and team spirit to defend social and economic cohesion in its Walloon and Franco-Belgian hinterland.
CWMBRAN Community Council
Cwmbran Community Council serves the population of Cwmbran, within Torfaen in South Wales. The Council provides a diverse range of services for all ages, from Summer Playschemes for local children through to gardening and decorating services for the elderly or less able. ... Read more »
DACORUM Borough Council
The Borough of Dacorum is in West Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It is composed of the main towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring plus the western part of Kings Langley. Dacorum, in its present form, was created in 1974.Five smaller council areas, those [......]
DOMOKOS
The new Municipality of Domokos includes the former municipalities of Domokos, Xyniada and Thessaliotida which are now designated as Municipal Units. The seat of the municipality is the local community of Domokos which is built like an amphitheatre in a panoramic [......]
FES - Maroc
Fez is currently the third largest city in Morocco in terms of residents. Its founding dates traditionally from the beginning of the ninth century, under the reign of Moulay Idriss II, but some historians place at the end of the eighth century, under the reign of [......]
FESTOS
Situated in south-central Crete, the Festos municipality covers a total of 412.740 square meters with a population of about 25,000 inhabitants. It is connected with all of the metropolitan centres of Crete as well as all of the airports and harbours. Visitors arriving [......]
GISLAVED
Gislaved is a municipality located in the southwest of Småland and belongs to Jönköping County. It has 29 000 inhabitants. We are known for our stunning natural beauty, good living environment and an amazing array of cultural and recreational active varieties. [......]
Hässleholms Kommun / Europe Direct Hässleholm
The Municipality of Hässleholm is a municipality in the southern part of Sweden. A Swedish Multicipality is built up by general elections to a municipal assembly. Under the municipal assembly is the municipal executive committee which is led by the Mayor/Chair of the [......]
Huddinge
HYNDBURN Borough Council
Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England whose council is based in Accrington. The district, formed in 1974, is named after the River Hyndburn. 2010, Hyndburn was voted the 10th best council in the Times "Best Public Sector Places [......]
IASI
Ia?i is one of the largest cities and municipalities in Romania. Located in the Moldavia region, Ia?i has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life. As of 2011, Ia?i had a population of 263,410 (the fourth [......]
KATOWICE
Katowice is the tenth largest city in Poland. It is also the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship. The city is one of the main industrial centres of Europe, but it is mostly the largest city in the industrial town of Upper Silesia, a conurbation of 3,487,000 inhabitants. [......]
KOŠICE South district
Kosice, the metropolis of Eastern Slovakia is the second largest city after capital Bratislava . Lying in the valley of the River Hornad in the basin that shares its name, Kosice is a regional administrative centre and Eastern Slovakia's hub of industry, commerce, [......]
KUTINA
Kutina is a town 70 kilometres from Zagreb, situated on the southern slopes of Moslava?ka Gora mountain covered with vineyards on one side and on the very edge of Lonjsko polje Nature park on the other.
There are 15.000 inhabitants in Kutina. Adding the population [......]
Lüleburgaz
MALAGA
Málaga is a city in the south of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, by the Mediterranean Sea. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the sixth largest city in Spain. Sitting at the mouth of the Guadalmedina, [......]
MELLUNKYLÄ - HELSINKI
Mellunkylä is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Mellunkylä is also a district which has the same name. It covers an area of 9.9 km2 and hosts 36,425 inhabitants (2010).
MERTON London Borough
The London Borough of Merton is a borough in southwest London, England. The borough was formed under the London Government Act in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all [......]
Metz
Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the capital and the prefecture of both the Lorraine region and the Moselle department.
Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, [......]
Mirano - Province of Venice
Mirano is a small city located in the northwest of the Province of Venice, around 20 km from the lagoon centre, in a crucial position between Venice, Padua and Treviso. The economy of the city is associated with many commercial activities, handcraft companies and factory [......]
Mola di Bari
Mola di Bari, more commonly referred to simply as Mola, is a small coastal town located approximately 22 kilometres from the South of Bari in the Southern Italian region of Apulia (Puglia). Mola is home to a large fishing industry that supplies fresh [......]
Neuchatel
Neuchâtel is a Swiss town on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel, on the southern flank of the Jura, it faces the Alps.
The economy of the city has long been associated with the administration (the most important city of the region) and agriculture (vines). It was dominated [......]
NYSA
Nysa, a picturesque town located at Nyskie Lake at the foot of the Sudety Mountains, called "Silesian Rome" , due to its valuable monuments is one of the main tourist attractions of the Silesia region in Southern Poland. It is also the capital of Nysa [......]
OBEC ZÁBIEDOVO
ORENBURG
The first stone of the city was built during the reign of Empress Anna Ivanovna, April 30, 1743, between the Yaik and Sakmara. Since its inception, the capital of the many faces of the Orenburg region, conceived as a fortress, is a striking symbol of the unity of peoples, [......]
Portsmouth, City
Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island and is a significant naval port of England.
The [......]
ROCHDALE Metropolitan Borough Council
RochdaleMBC is a Metropolitain Borough in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) north-northwest of Oldham, and 9.8 miles (15.8 km) north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale along [......]
RUSE
Ruse Municipality is located in Ruse Province, in the Central-North area of Bulgaria, along the right bank of the Danube river. Apart from the cultural heritage of the main city, the area is best known for the Danube bridge, which is the [......]
SÖDERMÖRE
Södermöre municipal district is a rural part of Kalmar municipality. City of Kalmar. Kalmar is a city in Småland in the south-east of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 37,286 inhabitants in 2013 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital [......]
SAINT-PETERSBURG Council of Municipalities
Council of Municipalities of Saint-Petersburg was established in 2006 in accordance with the federal law “On the general organizing principles of local self-government in the Russian Federation” as non- government organization which unites municipalities of Saint-Petersburg.
The [......]
SANVIGNES-LES-MINES
Located at the heart of Saône-et-Loire, Sanvignes is a municipality of 4,400 inhabitants situated in the department of Saône-et-Loire in Southern Bourgogne.
STOCKTON ON TEES Borough Council
Stockton-on-Tees is located at the heart of the Tees Valley in the North East of England. The area is within easy reach of city shopping and leisure facilities, the coast and rural North Yorkshire, as well as being home to industrial zones. There is a mixture of urban centres, [......]
Strasbourg
SUNDBYBERG
Sundbyberg is the most densely populated municipality in the country and yet, it is near to green areas, lakes, parks and enchanting cafés. Our modern office buildings with their fibre-optic networks, share the same area as restaurants and wooden manors from the [......]
SURREY County Council
Between the 15th and 19th October, Surrey County Council will taking part in ‘European Local Democracy Week’, a Europe-wide event that aims to foster knowledge of local democracy and promote the idea of democratic participation at a local level.
Surrey is one [......]
TAMPERE
Tampere is the third largest city in Finland and the largest inland centre in the Nordic countries. Currently there are over 215,000 inhabitants in Tampere, and close to half a million inhabitants in Tampere Region, which comprises Tampere and its neighbouring municipalities.
Tampere [......]
TEMERIN
Temerin is located in South Ba?ka District of Vojvodina, Serbia, and has a population of 28275 inhabitants. Temerin is well known for the thermo-mineral waters, that were first discovered in 1914. People come to Temerin from Novi, Žabalj, Kisa?, Petrovac and from other [......]
Val-De-Marne, Department
In Ile-de-France Region, Val-de-Marne is composed of 47 municipalities. The confluence of the Seine and the Marne naturally makes it a département of water. It's one of the smaller French departments in area. On 10 July 1964, a law decreed the creation of new départements [......]
Vasylkiv
Partner associations
Albanian Association of Communes
The Albanian Association of Communes is a national organization of 308 communes, established in August 1997, which has been strengthened and empowered due to members’ support and through cooperation with donors and partnerships with sister Associations.
We aim [......]
ALDA - the European Association for Local Democracy
Assembly of European Regions (AER)
The Assembly of European Regions (est.1985) is the largest independent network of regions in the wider Europe. Bringing together more than 250 regions from 35 countries and 16 interregional organisations, AER's mission is to promote the principle of subsidiarity and [......]
Association for Promoting Local Participation
The mission of our association is to have a “City Council” established, which already should have been founded on the basis of the instructions of the law on Municipalities in Turkish legislation (Nr.5393, Article 76) enacted in July 2005.
The City Council, as the [......]
Association for the Embassy of Local Democracy in Zavidovici
The Association of Local Democracy Embassy in Zavidovici was officially founded on 1996 by a group of volunteers from the "Coordinamento Bresciano Iniziative di Solidarietà", the Municipality of Alba, the Province of Cremona and the Association of Municipalities [......]
Association PRO DECEBAL
Association PRO DECEBAL organises the ELDW in partnership with other educational institutions and youth associations.
Cittalia - European Research Center for Cities and Municipalities (ANCI Research Foundation)
Cittalia – European Research Center for Cities and Municipalities – ANCI Research Foundation (Centro Europeo di Studi e Ricerche per i Comuni e le Città – Fondazione di Ricerche dell’ANCI) is the research foundation of ANCI, the National Association of Italian [......]
Conference of INGOs
The voice of civil society is heard at the Council of Europe thanks to the Conference of International Non-governmental Organisations (INGOs). Since the introduction of consultative status for INGOs in 1952, the Council of Europe has developed even closer and fruitful [......]
Foundation Opera Campana dei Caduti”
The Foundation is presided over by a Regency Council composed of the Regent, the Deputy Regent and ten Councillors. At the Miravalle Pass, the city of Rovereto receives the Bell of the War Dead - called Maria Dolens - conceived and initiated by the [......]
French Association of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (FACEMR)
The AFCCRE is a national association established in 1951 under the leadership of a number of local councilors, foremost among them Jacques Chaban-Delmas are Gaston and Defferre. At the origin of the twinning movement in Europe after the Second World War, AFCCRE has gradually [......]
Lasipalatsi Media Centre Ltd
One of the aims of the Association is to help people to become more involved in social, cultural and leisure activities. Stimulating debates between different generations and people with different cultural backrounds is extremely important for enhancing [......]
Local Democracy Agency of Prijedor
The Prijedor Local Democracy Agency is an association established in 2000 to promote democratic values such as respect of law and transparency, protection of human rights and freedoms, protection of minority rights, and to support the process of democratization, [......]
Local Government Association
The LGA is the national voice of local government and our mission is to support, promote and improve councils.
We work with councils to achieve our shared vision for local government by focusing our efforts where we can have real impact, being bold and ambitious, [......]
Macadam MixTalent WebWorkshop and Foundation
Russian National Congress of Municipalities
RNCM is a national association whose direct members are 81 regional associations of municipalities. It was founded in 2007. Its main office in Moscow.
Ukrainian Platform of Intercultural Cities
In March 2011, several representatives from Ukrainian cities met in Kyiv and signed the Memorandum on the Ukrainian Platform of Intercultural Cities. It was subscribed by the cities of Melitopol, Pryluky, Khmelnytsky, Yuzhne, Zhytomyr, Lutsk, Nizhyn, Kherson. Three [......]