German-US-American Youth Exchanges - USA Special 2022

TOWN TWINNINGS

Tri-city youth worker exchange: Chicago-Hamburg- Birmingham

Gabriele Scholz

Twin-town partnerships are a good way of building long- term international relationships, as demonstrated by the sister cities of Hamburg and Chicago, which have been twinned for over 25 years. The partnership developed fur- ther in the tri-city project, which turned into a trilateral youth worker exchange when it was joined by the English city of Birmingham. The colleagues on both sides of the At- lantic have plenty of subjects to discuss, but they also have one or two challenges.

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