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Leaders of Citizen Diplomacy Organization from 30 different countries around the world gathered from 7 to 9 of September for the first Global Sister Cities and Twinning Summit in Cairo, Egypt. Mudite Priede, Secretary General, and Z. Dūze, Head of Fo...

Berlin was the place to be for the latest Innovation Circle Board Meeting. This week ten IC members went for a flying visit to Germany’s capital. The program included a visit to the Bundestag as well as a comprehensive agenda for the Board Meeting. N...

The idea of involving citizens in decisions about the way their neighbourhood or town develops has been central to the projects that IC partners have undertaken. Now a new book provides a wide ranging review of just what is involved in such work.

About 50 young people from eight different countries made this year’s ICN Summer Youth Camp another successful and beneficial event. Together they showed the potential of youths. “We had a tremendous camp, with a lot of important discussions”, resume...

It's worthwhile to think about the phenomenon of the Suwalki Blues Festival. This year’s edition was held last weekend and all though it was only the 4th time Suwalki became city of Blues the word about the festival has already spread around the worl...

Cliff Hague was recently in Denver and Boulder in Colorado: „They have been doing some impressive work on making streets safe and attractive. We need to be cautious about transferring ideas across continents, and in the end each city is unique and sh...

Within the TiF project a lot of good ideas for rural town marketing arise. One of them is the the name sameness concept - an idea that uses name sameness to arouse people’s curiosity for rural towns. Although the withdrawal of the Havelland-Fläming P...

Last week representatives of the Association of Estonian Cities (AEC) visited the Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments (LALRG) for mutual exchange of experience. During the visit the representatives met with chairman Andris Jaunslein...

Summer has been late arriving in Chicago this year, but Millennium Park draws crowds all the year round. It’s a public space right in the heart of the city that undoubtedly works. Chicago’s citizens seem to have forgiven the fact that it was millions...

Linn-Aurora Wengen is the camp manager for the IC summer camp this year which will be organised at Ørje 5-9 August. Together with Anders Sølve Strand and a group of Norwegian youths she is preparing the camp and they promise that the preparations are...