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Talent for Governance Scholarship

Talent for Governance provides scholarships to young, talented and motivated civil servants from developing and transitional countries. With these scholarships, the civil servants can follow training courses in the Netherlands so that they can develop their knowledge and skills in the field of local governance. The scholarships give them the opportunity to meet colleagues from abroad as well as to learn from experiences in other countries. In this way, Talent for Governance not only contributes to their individual development but also invests in the sustainable and structural improvement of living conditions in their communities.

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The Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign

The Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign aims to help local governments across Europe to mainstream sustainability best practice and to implement the Aalborg Charter and Aalborg Commitments to achieve tangible results in local sustainable development.

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Call for Proposals - New ideas for transparency and democracy websites

The Open Society Institute (OSI) and mySociety teamed up to help people in Central and Eastern Europe build transparency and democracy websites suited to the needs and realities of their countries. The projects have to generate some kind of meaningful transparency, accountability, or democratic empowerment of another kind and must seize the unique benefits that the Internet brings with it, such as scalability, two way communication, and easy data analysis.

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Dunkerque 2010 - European Sustainable Cities & Towns Conference

The 6th European Sustainable Cities & Towns Conference will take place in Dunkerque, France, on 19-21 May 2010. This conference, the largest European event dedicated to local sustainable development, will serve as a platform of exchange for more than 1,000 local government leaders, representatives of local government networks, European institutions and international organizations.

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Useful website for City Mayors

City Mayors is an international network of professionals working together to promote strong and prosperous cities as well as good local government.

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