PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
Projects and activities are at the heart of Douzelage bringing together many of our partners for European projects under CERV or indeed small local cultural events organised by individual municpalities.
Pfingstritt tradition lives on in Bad Kötzting
Imagine this: in the dead of night, you are called upon to administer the last rites to someone gravely ill. Six and a half kilometres away. The path leads through a densely forested area. With wild boars and perhaps even wolves.
Sherborne celebrates summer of music
The Sherborne Music Festival took place in mid June and welcomed Irish band “What The Folk” from Bundoran to play music across the weekend.
Douzelage BeNeLux partners attend annual meeting in Houffalize
Representatives from our Douzelage BeNeLux partner towns came together recently for their annual meeting in Houffalize, Belgium
Douzelage teams celebrate St Patrick’s Day in Ireland
Two guests from the Douzelage partner town in the UK (Sherborne, Dorset) joined the Bundoran Douzelage team for the annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations in our Irish partner town on March 17th!
New Douzelage website launched
The new Douzelage website www.douzelage.eu has been launched following its in house redevelopment and modernisation.
Douzelage delegations welcomed to Granville Carnavale
Delegations from Ireland, Netherlands and Luxembourg joined our French partners in Granville for their annual carnival recently. Check out the memories from our President who was part of the delegation!
Music unites Douzelage partners in Susice!
Music unites Douzelage Partners in Susice!The hills of the Czech Republic were alive with the sound of music this past weekend as young musicians from six of our partner towns came together for the 4th iteration of the Douzelage Young Musicians Festival in...
FPuP website now online!
The project Free Press under Pressure of Douzelage Meerssen is now online with a dedicated website. The website contains all the toolkits created during the project which makes it easier to show the results and pass the word to family, friends, fellow students etc....
Free Press Under Pressure 2023
A large number of Douzelage member towns took part in the Free Press Under Pressure project supported by the EU in November 2023 in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Young adults work together for free press!
Under the name "Free Press under Pressure" (FPuP) seventy young adults from 19 member states of the EU sought for ways to discern factual, verifiable news from disinformation and "fake news". The project was organised by Douzelage Meerssen in collaboration with Fontys...
