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A New Concept for Town Twinning: Linking Europe and Asia

A New Concept for Town Twinning: Linking Europe and Asia. Frederick Cutajar Mayor Santa Lucija, MALTA. Concept of Twinning. From understanding one another to network of citizens. Twinning provides the opportunity to: find out more about the daily lives of citizens

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A New Concept for Town Twinning: Linking Europe and Asia

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  1. A New Concept for Town Twinning: Linking Europe and Asia Frederick Cutajar Mayor Santa Lucija, MALTA

  2. Concept of Twinning • From understanding one another to network of citizens. • Twinning provides the opportunity to: • find out more about the daily lives of citizens • to talk to them and exchange experiences, • to develop joint projects on issues of common interest • http://ec.europa.eu/towntwinning/index_en.html

  3. Current Practices in Twinning Activities • Focus on Europe • Other types of twinning activities? • Is it time to expand and extend our links beyond the European borders?

  4. Our Experience • Twinning agreements with Asia and Europe • Jin Chang – Municipality of Suzhou • Sicily (LOI) to be finalised in Dec • What have we learnt? • Major achievements • Main difficulties • The future

  5. What have we learnt? • Existing need that other regions work more closely with Europe • Cultural dialogue – way of life • Opportunities

  6. Major Achievements • Infrastructural embellishment of the area – Garden of Serenity • Input of workers from China • Raw material • Technological transfer and know how – exchange of ideas between workers new skills • Links for our business communities (tangible)

  7. Difficulties • Travel Costs • Linguistic • Food

  8. The Future • Maximising the current twinning • Working on a local regional and international level on EU funded activities such as Asia Invest • Making concrete proposals to the EU for extending its twinning policy

  9. Thank you

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