Cities4Cities

Launched in March this year, Cities4Cities is a free online exchange platform and communication tool developed to help Ukrainian cities. It allows local authorities from Ukraine and the rest of Europe to share their needs and offers of help with regards to local infrastructure as well as enabling them to get in contact to receive direct practical help.

The platform was launched at the initiative of Bernd Vöhringer, President of the Chamber of Local Authorities at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and Mayor of the city of Sindelfingen (DE), with the support of the Congress.

Bernd Vöhringer explains that the need to coordinate support from local level became very clear after a visit from Sindelfingen's Polish twin city Chełm, located near the Ukrainian border, where he saw "the urgent need for support in terms of material, financial and human resources. The platform will be a place to match the requests/needs of Ukrainian cities with the capacities, know-how and offers of other European cities, and it will allow us to support our Ukrainian friends and partners faster and more efficiently."

To consult the requests for assistance or to apply for an offer of assistance (aid deliveries, food, transfer of knowledge, support for reconstruction measures), you just need to create a profile on the Cities4Cities platform. Please note that the platform managers have to accept and unlock each new profile, so you will need to be patient after creating your profile.

Each request or offer of help is linked to a contact person with an email address or a phone number. The platform recommends using English or Ukrainian (if necessary with the help of the standard translation tools) for emails and for making contact by phone, they recommend that people with appropriate language skills (preferably Ukrainian) make the calls.

For more information visit: https://www.cities4cities.eu/LandingPage/Index?ReturnUrl=%2F.

To contact the platform managers, contact: contact@cities4cities.eu.

An FAQ and a user guide for the platform can be downloaded below.