Cork City Council has today opened online applications for its Twinning Grants.
We are putting out a call to any organisation, group or individual located or providing services within the administrative area of Cork City Council that proposes to promote the twinning links between Cork City and any of its six twinned cities: Swansea (Wales), Coventry (England), Rennes (France), Cologne (Germany), San Francisco (USA) and Shanghai (China). The nature of the activity may be community based, voluntary, social, cultural, educational and/or sporting or of general social and economic benefit.
The Twinning or Sister City concept developed in Europe following the Second World War. It was seen as a way of removing old enemies which had developed in the war years. Over the years, Cork City Council’s twinning grant has enabled Corkonians to be a part of international poetry exchanges, marathon runner exchanges, and international academic collaboration amongst other diverse activities. Covid restrictions mean that applications this year must comply with some related terms and conditions but this will surely make for some innovative ideas for strengthening our twinning ties in a time of global pandemic.
Applications can be submitted online here. Hard copies of the application form are available on request by contacting [email protected]
The closing date for submission of application forms is no later than 5pm, Friday 16th April, 2021.
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