This year’s twinner Werner Bock has joined his Twinning partner Gao Pan in Hefei. In his Blog he keeps track of the cultural differences and commonalities he encounters. Everyday adventures and most importantly the way Chinese NGOs deal with HIV. A still...
Kirsten Reinders from Cologne has been staying in Shanghai since the beginning of August. Together with her Chinese twinning partners from ‘Dinghaiqiao’ and AIFEN she discusses waste reduction and waste separation, comparing Chinese and German strategies....
Our twinner from the Netherlands, Els Schutmann (Forum Theater Enschede) only got to China recently – and already co-organized a workshop together with her Chinese partner Qian Li (Chengdu Storyteller). Alongside the participants of the workshop, most of whom...
The 2017 twinner exchange was a small anniversary: it was already the fifth round of the program. The report “2017 EU-China Twinning: Partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs” illustrates the outcomes, challenges and lessons last year’s...
Following her twinning in 2017 Arianna Americo published an article on the topic of ‘China’s “Ecological Civilization” and the Belt and Road Initiative’. The potential role the BRI might play in meeting the 1.5degree target of the Paris...
Heretofore unheard of, a twinning pair decided to organize a follow up to their follow up. Antoaneta Pophlebarova from Balkan Kids Bulgaria and Yao Zhilu formerly of Lingnan Partner Community Centre, who twinned in 2016 and did a follow up in 2017, continued their...