Special pre-event of the Sweden-Ukraine Municipal Partnership Forum

Save the date: November 26, 1 PM Swedish Time

Duration: 1,5-hour

Format: Online, Zoom



Over 20 municipalities in Sweden now have active partnerships with Ukrainian communities. The first Sweden-Ukraine Municipal Partnership Forum was held two years ago near Stockholm, marking a significant milestone in Swedish-Ukrainian municipal cooperation. The next Forum is scheduled for 2025, May 20-21, near Stockholm, bringing together mayors to foster new partnerships.


Ahead of that, Cities4Cities Initiative is creating a special online pre-event on November 26. At this time, the mayor of Karlskoga will have just returned from a visit to Ukrainian Shepetivka, bringing insights and outcomes. Additionally, the mayor of Höör, a partner of Kopchyntsi, will join the event to present updates on their partnership projects.

Key topics of pre-event with guests in Lviv Studio:

• best practices from already established Swedish-Ukrainian municipal partnerships
• How to find a Ukrainian partner for your municipality
• Funding and experience exchange opportunities for partnership projects


Moderator: 

Magnus Liljeström, SALAR International expert

Speakers: 

What can Swedish and Ukrainian cities learn from each other?

Olga Petrova, adviser to the mayor of Shepetivka

Tony Ring, Chair of Municipal board of the City of Karlskoga

Joint projects between Swedish and Ukrainian cities: where to start?

Johan Svahnberg, mayor of Höör, Sweden

Bohdan Kelichaviy, mayor of Kopychyntsi

How to find a partner in Ukraine? Cities4Cities: your back office for setting up and supporting partnerships

Marta Suprun, Cities4Cities international cooperation expert

Please, save the date – November 26, and join the event by the link in Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86251420893

Add to the Google Calendar by the link.

Cities4Cities | United4Ukraine are partnership initiatives that joined forces in September 2022. The project helps Ukrainian communities establish inter-municipal partnerships with municipalities in Europe.
 

Cities4Cities was founded by the German city of Sindelfinden under the auspices of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. The United4Ukraine initiative was launched by SALAR International and the Ukrainian city of Lviv with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Since 2024, Sities4Cities | United4Ukraine has been a part of Sweden’s reform cooperation Programme Polaris “Supporting Multilevel Governance in Ukraine”.