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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 &...

Flemish cities and municipalities are invited to join the “Week of the Sustainable municipality”

From 18 to 25 September, the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG) organises the s...

Flemish SDG indicators are online!

A set of 205 local SDG indicators are presented by The Association of Flemish Cities and Municipali...

Localising SDGs: making the world a better place to live

15 October 2018

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on everyone’s lips. But beyond the UN’s 17-point fr...

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