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Sustainable Management of Water
In April 2007 a joint agreement on friendly co-operation between the cities Xi´an in China and Umeå in Sweden was signed. The agreement focuses on three areas: Culture, Biotech and Energy and environmental technologies. For Xi’an, as the capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and with a growing economic development, the water pollution from…
Dialogue and cooperation-towards a democratic sustainable and environmental friendly local development
The overall objective of the project is to create a democratic local society in Wuhan and that the municipality is working in a structured way to ensure a sustainable environment in the City of Wuhan. The cooperation between Wuhan and Borlänge also strives to contribute to a positive democratic development, through increased understanding of dialogue…
Fire brigade 2012-13
Representatives from Mariental Municipality presented (in the prestudy and in the Partnership Project) in the Coordination Committee, practical problems with their Fire Department. Five years ago the Fire Department response was transferred from the Government to the Municipalities in Namibia. No economic resources were added. During the “Fire brigade Project 2009-2010”, education- and training programmes…
Sustainable Strategies for Sustainable Education
The vision of this project is to create an outstanding organizational capacity to support ESD in the cities, and to interact with other stakeholders at regional, national and international level. This means that the partner organizations will improve their organizational learning in order for supporting ESD in the district, cities and other settings. This will…
Sites and Stories
To improve the socio-economic well-being and develop the communities by engaging people in the democratic process on local stories and historical sites. The project objective is to create sustainable educational programs together with communities and schools on heritage and culture, local sites and stories, engaging people in interviews, drama, time travels as a way to…
Cooperation Malmö-Swakopmund part 2 – ESD
The overall objective is: A sustainable city with engaged citizens. The project objective is: Learners and pedagogues are more aware of what a sustainable city is and how they can contribute in creating it. The specific objectives are:
Creating a supportive environment for health and learning
The proportion of children and young people with mental illness and disorders is increasing both in Sweden and in China. There is also, in both countries, an increase in lifestyle-related diseases such as overweight and obesity, even among adolescence. These risk factors affect both the motivation to maintain a healthy lifestyle as well as the…
Local energy approach
The project will contribute to reducing poverty in Rombo district, Tanzania by introducing new democratic tools for anchoring, implementation and capacity building that contribute to increased civic participation and democratic possibilities for influence. Through the use of education, information/pilot plants in order to help increase locally produced renewable energy that streamline working methods and long-term…
Participation and voice implementation
Through the feasibility study ”Participation and voice” we have been able to identify the problem and basis for a collaborative project between the municipalities regarding democracy issues for young people. The feasibility study’s results show many similar challenges, but with different strengths of the partners. A clear deficiency and thereby focus of the project is…
The right to influence for children and youth
The project ‘The right to influence for children and youth’ aims to improve the knowledge of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and to engage more young people in local democratic work in both participating municipalities. The project will primarily focus on working with young people aged 13-18 in certain schools and…
