The municipalities of Novoyavorivsk (Ukraine) and Troisdorf (Germany) have established cooperation

The municipalities of Novoyavorivsk (Ukraine) and Troisdorf (Germany) have agreed to cooperate in the areas of energy efficiency, healthcare, utilities, sports and social services.

This partnership was made possible, in part, by the Cities4Cities United4Ukraine platform, which fosters partnerships between Ukrainian and European municipalities.

The initiative has created a database of Ukrainian municipalities that are ready to cooperate and is constantly updating it. The portfolio contains information about the population of a potential Ukrainian partner city, its history, cultural heritage, major economic sectors, nature, and local government. It also includes community stories from the period after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The goal of Cities4Cities United4Ukraine is to establish and maintain long-term partnerships. This will help not only Ukraine to recover and integrate into the EU, but also the EU to become more resilient by learning from Ukraine's experience in crisis management, civil protection, rehabilitation and resocialization, development of volunteer movements and combating malicious information campaigns.

If you represent a European municipality and are considering establishing a partnership with the Ukrainian community, you can:

• independently familiarize with the list of potential partners in the initiative's database;
• write a letter to contact@cities4cities.eu with a request for partnership, describing your criteria, and Cities4Cities United4Ukraine experts will offer several options for potential partners.

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Cities4Cities United4Ukraine are partnership initiatives that joined forces in September 2022 and officially confirmed this on February 27, 2023 at the Municipal Partnership Forum in Sindelfingen by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.

Cities4Cities was founded by the city of Sindelfingen (Germany) under the auspices of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. The platform was launched on March 29, 2022 in Strasbourg in the presence of the mayor of the city, Dr. Bernd Föhringe. Bernd Föringer, Ambassador of Ukraine Borys Tarasiuk, then Secretary General of the Congress Andreas Kiefer and Managing Director of STAR Cooperation Oliver Messer.

The United4Ukraine initiative was launched by SALAR International and the city of Lviv (Ukraine) with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).