Already 14 Ukrainian societies have started partnerships with German communities. For example, Uman will cooperate with Dortmund, Shabo with Bad Mergentheim.
At the Strategic Municipal Partnership Forum in Böblingen and Sindelfingen, the communities met with potential German sister cities.
Mayors and community representatives agreed on a long-term partnership and tactical support for Ukrainian communities, and two communities signed an agreement.
Which cities will cooperate
- Kamenetz-Podolsky and Esslingen-on-Neckar,
- Uman and the cities of Dortmund and Tübing, Voznesensk and Ditzingen,
- Svetlovodsk and Shorndorf,
- Chabot and Bad Mergentheim,
- Novomoskovsk and Brandenburg,
- Bolshaya Dymerka and Betingham-Bissingen,
- Zvyagel and Ludwigshafen am Rhein,
- Belgorod-Dnestrovsk and communities of Ulm and Neo-Ulm,
- Valki and Felbach,
- Lozovaya and Waiblingen,
- Winter Water and Ravenburg,
- Mountain and Vorstetten,
- Khmelnitsky with Dresden,
- Stuttgart and French Strasbourg.
The new partnerships launched at the forum are a process of exchanging experience and culture. Support for Ukrainian communities during the war is Ukraine's effective integration into the European community. Cities 4 Cities Project Coordinator | United 4 Ukraine Svetlana Blinova stressed that they strive for more and more Ukrainian and European communities to cooperate, for this they will make a lot of efforts.
Communities Forum in Germany / Photo Cities 4 Cities | United 4 Ukraine:
What was agreed
- We agreed to provide municipal equipment for creating trenches and protecting cities, medical equipment and medicines,
- about assistance in scanning underground communications of cities, reconstruction of industrial parks and public utilities,
- support for invincibility points,
- development of cooperation in the field of preschool educational institutions,
- carrying out exchanges between employees of city councils, as well as youth and cultural exchanges.
In particular, the mayor of Vorstetten handed over a fried car to the chairman of the Mining Community, and the mayor of Hofstetten handed over humanitarian cargo to the Trostyanets community.
Representatives of Khmelnitsky, Stuttgart, Dresden and Strasbourg discussed the possibility of a four-way partnership. By the way, such a model of cooperation between cities will be the first in Europe.
Also, urban planning experts from the Dutch communities of Utrecht, Ede, The Hague and Rotterdam held a working meeting with representatives of the Kherson, Bereslav, Vysokopolska and Ochakiv communities to develop a plan for their restoration.
