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A New Concept for Town Twinning: Linking Europe and Asia Frederick Cutajar Mayor Santa Lucija, MALTA
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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.ht ml
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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?
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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
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What have we learnt? Existing need that other regions work more closely with Europe Cultural dialogue – way of life Opportunities
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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)
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Difficulties Travel Costs Linguistic Food
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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
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