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Case study of Cologne as presented in an international forum in Tel Aviv. How do city to city partnerships promote the city or residents or businesses?
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International Connectedness
and Networking
City-to-City Cooperation and City Diplomacy
International Relations Forum Tel Aviv-Yafo, 15 September 2014
Culture of Cooperation
The nation state may have been the appropriate answer to the needs of the 19th and 20th century.
The 21st century will be the century of
globalisation and urbanisation. Cities will
become key players in international politics
(“the urban century”).
Twinning will be even more pivotal to cope with
the challenges ahead (“culture of
cooperation”).
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Cologne worldwide is…
• a city in which people of 180 different nationalities live
• part of a network of 22 international sister-cities on four continents
• part of European and international city-networks
• involved in a large number of projects with international partners dealing with challenges of the 21st century.
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24 Sister-Cities
Liverpool GB Mai 1952
Esch-sur-Alzette L 03.07.1958
Lille F 03.07.1958
Lüttich B 03.07.1958
Rotterdam NL 03.07.1958
Turin I 03.07.1958
Kyoto J 29.05.1963
Tunis TN 12.06.1964
Turku FIN 17.06.1967
Berlin-Neukölln D 15.11.1967
Klausenburg RO 13.11.1976
Tel-Aviv-Yafo IL 06.08.1979
Barcelona E 30.03.1984
Peking VRC 14.09.1987
Thessaloniki GR 03.05.1988
Cork IRL 27.06.1988
Corinto/El Realejo NIC 02.11.1988
Indianapolis USA 28.11.1988
Wolgograd RUS 28.11.1988
Berlin-Treptow D 03.09.1990
Kattowitz PL 15.03.1991
Bethlehem PAA 12.03.1996
Istanbul TR 15.03.1997
Rio de Janeiro BRAS 19.09.2011
Tour de l’amitié I (2008) Cologne - Liège - Esch-sur-Alzette - Lille- Rotterdam
Tour de l’amitié II (2009) Cologne – Freiburg - Torino
Tour de l’amitié III (2013) Lille – Liverpool - Cork
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Jewish Traces in Cologne…
• Oldest Jewish Community North of the Alps
(decree by Emperor Constantine 321 AD)
• Jewish Quarter next to the Town Hall
Jewish Quarter in
the medieval Cologne Archeological Zone / Jewish Museum www.museenkoeln.de/archaeologische-zone/
…founding seat of Zionist organizations
Max Bodenheimer (1865 - 1940)
David Wolfssohn (1856 – 1914)
…11.000 Jews from Cologne region
murdered during the NS-dictatorship
www.stolpersteine.com
… seat of the Israel Mission 1953 – 1965
Cologne – Tel Aviv-Yafo 1960 - 2014
`Young Ambassadors´ as diplomatic pioneers
Trilateral Euro-Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges ?
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Cologne – Bethlehem – Tel Aviv-Yafo
• 1960: first youth exchange between Cologne and Tel Aviv-Yafo
• 1979: Official sister city partnership
• 1996: Sister city partnership with Bethlehem
• 1997: First trilateral exchanges ...
• ... frozen in 2000 (Second Intifada) ...
• ... resumed in 2009
• 2011: Cologne Mayors´ Euro-Middle East Conference
• Currently: trilateral encounters in the field of sport and youth
Trilateral School Exchange, March 2010
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Conclusions: http://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/internationales/
europaarbeit/foerderung-des-nahostfriedensprozesses-auf-kommunaler-ebene
Cologne Mayors’ Conference
"Euro - Middle East City-to-City-Cooperation",
29th November – 1st December 2011
White City of Tel-Aviv Cathedral Cologne Church of the Nativity and
Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
UNESCO World Heritage
Tour de l‘amitié IV, V …
2016: Torino – Barcelona
2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020 …?
How about Tel Aviv-Yafo – Bethlehem
– Dead Sea – Negev – Tel Aviv-Yafo?
Euro- Middle East City-to-City Cooperation and
Trilateral Exchanges !
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Thank you!
Frieder Wolf
City of Cologne
Mayor´s Office
Office for International Affairs
City Hall (Spanischer Bau), D-50667 Köln
Tel.: +49-221 / 221-21480 Fax: +49-221 / 221-21849
[email protected] www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/internationales
