Twinning Blog
Forum Theatre in Heifeng – A Follow-up Project
In 2016, Antoaneta from the BalkanKids Foundation and Zhilu from Lingnan Partner Community Support Centre worked together on sexual education not only during the EU-China Twinning program, but continued their successful cooperation also after the official program had...
EU – China Twinning Program 2017 – A Twinning Diary
A Twinning Diary by Wang Han (Green Women, Shanghai) and Johanna Eichermüller (WECF, Munich) This “Twinning Diary” is compiled by Han and Johanna. Hereby, we wanted to document our common journey through Europe (and later on through China), visiting conferences,...
“The Mudflat is Connecting Worlds ” – twinners in the news
Our Twinners made the news Under the title "The Mudflat is Connecting Worlds" two of the twinners 2017, Anja Szczesinski from WWF and Vivian Fu from Hong Kong Birdwatch Society, appeared in the July 14 issue of the Husumer News. In the article, Vivian and Anja reflect...
EU-China NGO Twinning at C20 – A Capacity-Building Workshop in Hamburg 2017
What kind of world do we want to live in? In a complex, organizational feat between VENRO and Stiftung Asienhaus and its’ partners, this year’s Capacity Building Workshop in Europe had been integrated and planned around the Civil Society 20 (C 20) in Hamburg. Before...
EU-China NGO Twinning at the C20
As part of this year's capacity building workshop, the 2017 twinners joined the over 300 international NGOs meeting at the C20 in Hamburg. Representatives of civil society organizations have been meeting and working on the demands to the G20 leaders which have been...
Full Twinning Report 2016
This full report on the fourth round of NGO exchange „2016 EU-China Twinning: Partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs” displays the results, synergies, and lessons learned during the EU-China NGO Twinning as well as the sustained cooperations and projects of...
Twinning Workshop and C20 Participation
The 5th generation of the EU-China NGO Twinning is participating in a unique capacity building this year. Additionally to the inputs about EU legislation and campaigning, and aside from the general intercultural and cooperation-building workshop modules, the twinners...
VIDEO: We have a lot of topics in common
Watch now - our brand new film on the unique European-Chinese work exchange experience!
Report on new trends towards sustainable living by our Twinning Alumni
News on EU-China NGO-Twinning: On 18th of November 2016, Ms Jiaqi Liu from the organization Friends of Old Villages, Ms Deng Yang from the Collaboration Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, both participants of this year’s NGO Twinning program reported on...
Achievements 2013 to today
The Call for Applications for our 2017 EU-China NGO Twinning Program is online. It's the fifth round already! Time to take a look back on the past four years: Our program has started with 10 participants in 2013, so far a total of 76 Twinners coming from China and 14...
2016 EU-China NGO Twinning Program Capacity Building and Reflection Week in Berlin
How do civil society organizations campaign in Europe, how can it be compared to campaigning in China’s restricted media landscape? What are the hot topics of NGOs in Europe and in China? What can Chinese and European NGOs learn from each other? A week of field trips,...
China Salon – After Work Study
Rural and urban sustainable development in China NGO perspectives 18.11.2016 – 17:15, Stiftung Asienhaus, Hohenzollernring 52, 50672 Köln, 5. OG Dear colleagues and friends, on behalf of the Stiftung Asienhaus we would like to invite you to the following event:...
TTIP, Anti-Coal Campaigning, Environmental Litigation – how can Chinese and European NGOs collaborate?
Dear colleagues and friends, on behalf of the Stiftung Asienhaus and Climate Action Network Europe we would like to invite you to the following workshop: Berlin: How to Collaborate on climate change, social and environmental justice. EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange...
SAVE THE DATE: 2.11 – 3.11 EU-China NGO Twinning Workshop in Berlin
The Capacity Building and Experience Sharing workshop of this year's Twinning Program is taking place in Berlin. On the 2.11. we are starting at the "Haus der Deutschen Stiftungen" with inputs on EU Legislation and TTIP Negotiations, Citizen Participation in...
Stories of Change – Twinners Roland Joebstl and Peter Feldkamp speak at the Beijing Environmental Networking Event “Green Drinks”
The 2016 Twinning program also gave Roland Joebstl, European Environmental Bureau and Peter Feldkamp, Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., the opportunity to speak at BJ Green Drinks. A networking event that regularly invites environmental scholars, activists, media and NGOs to...
Full Twinning Report 2015
This full report on the third round of NGO exchange „Twinning: partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs –Social and Environmental Justice - Climate Change & Low Carbon Development” displays the results, synergies, and lessons learned of the third round of...
The Twinning 2016: Half-Time
As the time, that the European Twinners spend in China is coming to an end, we would like to offer a closer look at the 2016 exchange partners here. For more information on what they have already accomplished the Workshop Documentation, here might provide some...
2016 Changsha Capacity Building Seminar: Climate Change, Social and Environmental Justice
2016 EU-China NGO Twinning Program Capacity and Experience Sharing Workshop held in Changsha From August 18th to 21st, 2016, Stiftung Asienhaus, China Association for NGO Co-operation (CANGO), and CAN Europe jointly organized a 4-day workshop on capacity...
Three European Twinners already in China
As of July, three of the nine European Twinners from the Social and Environmental Justice Branch of this year's Twinning program have already left for China. Their destinations included Shenzhen, Shanghai and Changsha, where a warm welcome by their exchange partners...
Press Release – The seven Twinners for the EU-China NGO Exchange 2016 have been chosen
For the third time the German Stiftung Asienhaus supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung organizes the exchange program EU-China NGO Twinning. The selection committee decided on the following seven Twinners from four different European countries and all over China:...