Town twinning strengthens mutual understanding

02/18/2010

"Twinning of local governments is considered to be a driving force of growth and development of the European Union," points out Oldřich Vlasák, Chairman of SMO CR (Association of Towns and Municipalities CR), a Member of European Parliament and an Executive President of CEMR. (more)

International Conference LORIS 2010

01/14/2010

Simultaneously with the 13^th year of the renowned conference Internet in State Administration and Self-government, which will be held in the days of 12–13 April 2010 in the Aldis Congress Centre in Hradec Králové, there will be held this year as well one of the meetings with partners of international project LORIS (Local and Regional Information Society), whose main organizer is Vysočina Region and which was co-financed by European Commission within the TT programme. Traditionally there will meet representatives of twinning towns of European initiative i2010 (European Information Society for growth and employment). (more)

International Conference LORIS 2009

04/08/2009

Within the programme of the 12^th year of the renowned conference Internet in State Administration and Self-government, which was held in the days of 6--7 April 2009 in the Aldis Congress Centre in Hradec Králové, there was held another year of the international conference LORIS (Local and Regional Information Society), whose main organizer was Vysočina Region and which was co-financed by European Commission within the TT programme. Traditionally there met representatives of twinning towns of European initiatives i2010 (European Information Society for growth and employment). Among the key topics of a two-day programme there did not lack discussions about development of e-government at the local and regional level, use of EU resources at developing chosen ICT projects, town-twinning and networking or developing of e-tourism. The conference again significantly contributed to more intensive collaboration between twinning towns and regions of the whole Europe among which there did not miss the capital Prague, Hradec Králové, Brno, Ostrava, České Budějovice or Vysočina Region. (more)

LORIS 2009