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04/05/2007

The conference LORIS 2007 contributed to further development of twinning collaboration between European towns

The programme of the conference LORIS 2007 did not consist only of discussions and meetings between towns, a special stress was laid also on examples of good practice and presentations of successful projects. In the project laboratory in the Elizabeth Hall there were presented examples of working town-twinning cooperation--between Bratislava and Prague and Vienna, between Slovakian Moldava nad Bodvou and Hungarian towns Encs and Karcag or another project of Prague, Bratislava and Vienna eContent plus. In the project laboratory on the first floor there were presented projects of Otrokovice and Slovakian Dubnica or collaboration of deputies of cities Prague, Bratislava and Wroclav Junior Internet.

In the course of the conference there took place also a number of meetings of deputies of partner towns, at which there was discussed development of existing collaboration and preparation of common projects. One of such successful meeting was for example discussion between deputies of Jihlava and a Dutch town Purmerend.

According to the words of Miloš Vystrčil, President of Vysočina Region, "the international LORIS conference is annually a unique opportunity to exchange international experience. A close connection with the national conference ISSS and in the last four years also with a working meeting of Visegrád countries V4DIS enables for a few days to concentrate in one place a whole number of personalities, experts, visions as well as examples from the practice. This is then logically found beneficial by all who collaborate on creating information society not only in the Czech Republic, but also in a number of other countries in Europe."

The results of meetings of the international conference LORIS 2007, an overview of current bonds between European towns taking part in the programme of town-twinning as well as the conclusions of the international conference LORIS 2007 were available also for the two thousands of participants of the simultaneously held national conference ISSS. In the following weeks the information will be further disseminated through concerned European initiatives and networks such as for example Telecities-Eurocities, ELANET-CEMR or Global Cities Dialogue.