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Twinning committee

Twinning committee: organising the key moments of a partnership between towns

For twinning committees: signing, hosting, funding, lasting, with one single contact.

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European flag flying on the stone façade of a public building
The façade, European flag flying.

The key moments of a twinning, in order

Every partnership meets them, at its own pace.

  1. Find a partner

    Elected officials’ network, association or AFCCRE.

  2. Pass a resolution

    The council authorises the mayor to sign.

  3. Sign, twice

    In one town, then in the other.

    Signing the twinning charter

  4. Host a delegation

    Official invitation, bilingual programme, precedence, interpreting.

  5. Exchange young people

    What lasts, what gets funded.

  6. Celebrate a charter anniversary

    Ten, twenty-five, forty years: signatories reunited.

    Preparing a twinning anniversary

Hosting a foreign delegation at the town hall: the protocol

Details decided in advance.

  • Official invitation from the mayor, bilingual programme.
  • List of names: badges, rooms, meals, seating, gifts.
  • Precedence by decree, flags by custom.
  • Speeches in consecutive, meetings in simultaneous.
Reception room furnished with armchairs arranged in a semicircle, empty room.
Reception room prepared to receive a delegation.
Meeting room in a semicircle, armchairs and microphones around an oval table
The room, before the delegation arrives.

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Funding a twinning exchange

Nothing funds everything, everything is applied for beforehand.

  • FGYO

    Franco-German Youth Office

    Franco-German youth meetings, language activities.

  • Citizens’ Fund

    Franco-German Citizens’ Fund

    Franco-German twinning committee initiatives.

  • CERV

    Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

    European strand: town twinning and networks of towns.

  • Erasmus+

    And the eTwinning platform

    Pupil mobility, partnerships between schools.

  • DAECT

    Delegation for the External Action of Local Authorities

    Co-funding of decentralised cooperation.

SOST’N, and what we can say about ourselves

Our clients keep their image. The volumes remain.

  • 35+events produced a year
  • 300 to 400people welcomed at large-scale events
  • €10Mof events produced by SOST’N
  • Since 2019the managing director has produced events

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