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Municipal international cooperation: a dashboard of approaches and practices

8 November 2023

You want to become internationally active as a local government? You are looking for suitable forms ...

Lessons learned on city-to-city partnerships

11 October 2023

The Flemish municipalities of Brasschaat, Edegem and Herent went through a process, from 2019 to the...

Flemish cities & municipalities are showing the way

Flemish cities and municipalities are pioneers in translating the SDGs locally. In doing so, they no...

Week of the Sustainable Municipality | VVSG wants to inspire local government associations!

8 February 2023

The ‘Week of the Sustainable Municipality’ is an annual public campaign aimed firstly at...

The municipality of Oostkamp wants to embark on an international partnership

The municipality of Oostkamp (Belgium) is looking for a long-term collaboration with a local governm...

The Belgian city of Kortrijk wants to exchange on environment & climate with an African partner municipality

11 October 2021

The city of Kortrijk in Belgium is looking for a partner to start up its new international cooperati...

Ghost Children | A new award for Roeselare-Dogbo birth registration scheme!

“The Ghost Children Fight” was awarded best feature-length documentary at Amnesty international ...

EDLS, PLATFORMAwards

EDLS, PLATFORMAwards

#WorldChildrensDay: Your free 52′ home cinema session

20 November 2020

On this International Children’s Rights Day, PLATFORMA offers the free viewing of the&nbs...

The SDGs should be seen as a tool to overcome the crisis

9 November 2020

Local and regional government and EU institutions representatives discussed on the role of the Susta...

Local government takes a seat at the UN table

13 October 2020

75 years already! That’s how long it’s been since the creation of the United Nations, an organis...

Informing and involving citizens is central in municipalities strategy towards the localisation of the 2030 Agenda

The Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity (FAMSI), together with PLATFORMA,...

Discover VVSG three new publications on the SDGs

The SDGs are now firmly anchored at the local policy level in Flanders, but VVSG continues to inspir...

Flemish mayors explain the Sustainable Development Goals in video

In a short film launched by the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG), the mayors ...

Project 3/12: Bornem (Belgium) – Nquthu (South Africa)

For the second time, PLATFORMA has decided to reward the best city-to-city and region-to-region inte...

EDLS, PLATFORMAwards

EDLS, PLATFORMAwards

#WorldChildrensDay: more than a quarter of children under 5 are unregistered worldwide

20 November 2019

20 November is World Children’s Day. And this year is special. Thirty years ago, world leaders ado...

95 Flemish local governments participate in the Week of the Sustainable Municipality

From 18th until 25th of September almost 100 Flemish municipalities celebrated the 4th birthday of t...

Urban Development

Urban Development

The city of Ghent awarded for its toolbox to favour the purchase of fair trade goods!

27 September 2019

The city of Ghent (Belgium) won the “Procura+ Award” for the development of a toolbox to...

A global push to localise SDGs: Local leaders meet UN Secretary General

PLATFORMA and CEMR’s joint delegation of local and regional elected officials was everywhere in ...

HLPF: Local and regional governments are represented in many sessions and side events through PLATFORMA

A delegation of 17 local and regional elected officials representing PLATFORMA is attending this w...

Apply now for the 2nd PLATFORMAwards!

PLATFORMA launched yesterday (3 July) the 2nd edition of the PLATFORMAwards at Cités Unies France &...

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