Drawing the balance and thinking further

On the 22nd and 23rd of February 2013, numerous international representatives of the EU project from Hanover, its twin towns, and partner organisations followed the invitation of the Agenda 21 Office under the management of Silvia Hesse and the Cultural Office of the [...]

On Friday 14th December Hannover became Fairtrade Town again.

The first encounter between Hannover and Blantyre, which led to an official twinning of the cities in 1968, had it’s 50th anniversary in March 2012. The initiator was Dr. Lore Henkel, who was a counceller back then.
On this occasion, the Agenda 21 office and the Cultural office invited the Chief Executive Officer of [...]

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the “Hannover-Blantyre” partnership, an exhibition about this city partnership, possibly the oldest with an African town, was staged in the Town Hall from March 15th – 30th. In addition to historic photographs, current pictures of people in Blantyre were shown as an encouragement.

Special emphasis was [...]

Goal walls – A symbol of the difficulty to achieve the Millenium Development Goals

Between March 2nd and March 12th the “aware&fair” goal walls dealing with the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations, were presented by the Agenda 21 office and the Cultural Office of the City of Hannover [...]

The project named “Sustainable Sales Promotion Activities – Hanover is Trading Fairly” is an interdisciplinary, activity-oriented and societal vocational training measure. It is carried out and organised by the retail industry department of Berufsbildende Schule (BBS) Handel Hannover, which is a vocational school for trade and commerce in Hanover. Apprentices for the position of Management [...]

In the context of the nationwide Fair Trade weeks this year, many activities related to Fair Trade have taken place again. On the 24th of September people were invited by the Hanoverian fair-week-alliance to come to the place of the world exhibition, where, under the motto “smart and fair”, they have organised many activities, gave [...]

On the 22nd of September five of the prize winners taking part in the competition for the title of  “Capital City of Fair Trade 2011” were nominated in the historical town hall in Marburg. Bremen won 1st place and the 2nd place went to Saarbrücken.

The city of Hanover was also chosen to be one [...]

In July 10 young volunteers from Blantyre, Hannover, Litomerice, Miskolc and Poznan attended a video training in Hannover.

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We just finished our first fairtrade breakfast in the Congress Hall of Hannover. Students from the FH Hannover presented their product ideas to catering companies around Hannover.