The Casablanca-Settat Regional Academy for Education and Training (AREF) organized its first regional forum on the education and training system in Casablanca on Wednesday, under the theme "Casablanca-Settat Region: locomotive of the new Moroccan school, assessment of results and prospective post-2026 challenges". This regional forum is part of the ongoing implementation of the education system reform projects and the provisions of framework law 51.17 on the education, training and scientific research system.
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On May 7, 2026 in Orléans, the Loiret Departmental Gendarmerie Group (GGD) and the Association des maires et présidents d'intercommunalités du Loiret (AML45) renewed their partnership agreement to strengthen cooperation between local councillors and the Gendarmerie nationale in the service of local communities and the general public.
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On Friday May 8, 2026, the headquarters of the Société de Mécanisation Agricole (SoNaMa) in Ouidah hosted the official ceremony for the presentation of agricultural equipment to five students in the Agrostudies program. Presided over by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Gaston Cossi DOSSOUHOUI, this initiative is part of the government's drive to modernize the agricultural sector and promote youth entrepreneurship. It is supported by the Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA), SoNaMa and Swiss Cooperation.
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Although exchanges between young people from Donville-les-Bains (Manche) and Fellering (Haut-Rhin) have ceased, the ties that bind the inhabitants of the two towns 800 km apart remain strong. As proof of this, around fifty Donvillais will be heading for Alsace on Wednesday May 13, 2026.
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On May 9 in Brazzaville, young mothers and women received certificates of completion for their entrepreneurship training, at the end of the first edition of the seminar initiated by the non-governmental organization Consortium panafricain pour la paix, headed by Dr. Ernest Nounga Djomo, and the Centre missionnaire Elim, headed by Bishop Norbert Okana.
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In the context of a fundamental and comprehensive reform of education and training, digital transformation is becoming a strategic pillar of Ho Chi Minh City's education sector.
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The Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the results of a project to support intelligent, inclusive and sustainable agriculture, financed to the tune of around 440 million CFA francs, at the Niaguis educational farm (Ziguinchor, south) on Thursday.
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Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska wants to avoid having its growth curbed. The municipality is preparing to facilitate its long-term real estate development. According to demographic projections, 197 additional housing units will be needed by 2040 to accommodate 361 new residents, representing a population increase of 15.8%.
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The Municipality of Caplan plans to invest some $2 million to bring the John Lapointe Sports Center up to date.
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On Friday May 1, 2026, Mayor Emmanuel Porcq of Cabourg (Calvados) and Mayor Nicolas Tefnin of the Belgian town of Spa once again signed the twinning charter.
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In Togo, the project entitled "Reinforcement des capacités des groupements des femmes productrices d'huile de coco des préfectures des Lacs, Vo, Bas-Mono et Golfe" was officially launched on Tuesday May 5, 2026 in Aného. The initiative is funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), through the Togo Coastal Communities Climate Resilience Project (R4C-Togo).
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The Association pour la Promotion de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche en Aménagement et Urbanisme (APERAU), a member network of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), is organizing the 27th Rencontres Internationales d'Urbanisme (RIU), from June 9 to 11, 2026, in France.
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Between sporting challenges, outings for carers and new partnerships: France Alzheimer Manche has an explosive program for some fifty people who attended the general meeting of the France Alzheimer Manche association, founded in 1999 by Renée Meiss, a Coutançaise who died recently, at Coutances town hall on Tuesday.
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The Baara project has come to an end after several years of implementation devoted to professional integration and skills enhancement for young people.
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The Bikes in Brussels Fund has granted further support of almost 1.5 million euros to 13 projects for cycling facilities, including schools, associations and public authorities, the King Baudouin Foundation announced on Tuesday.
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This year, 2026, Angers (Maine-et-Loire) celebrates the creation of Europe on May 9, 1950, with a series of events to mark ten years of twinning with Poland.
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Citizens are mobilizing to protect Sherbrooke's Boisé-Fabi. They want the city to develop the area while protecting its biodiversity.
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Le Celtic cinema association has established a partnership with the local twinning committee. As part of its cultural exchanges and international outreach, a special evening of cinema-twinning is being organized this Wednesday," announces Sonia Tissier, the cinema's director.
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On May 2, to mark the first Saturday of the month, Juste Désiré Mondelé, Minister of Urban Sanitation, Local Development and Road Maintenance, presented garbage bins to a number of Brazzaville's Centres de Santé Intégré (CSI).
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On an oppressively hot Sunday in April, volunteers from the Association des repas solidaires in the Thiên Truong district of Ninh Binh province were busy providing hot meals to patients in the early hours of the morning.
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Teams from La Poste's sites in Gonesse, Eragny, Domont and Groslay rallied to collect food for the Restos du Cœur.
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In Sarh, a new human-powered pump improves access to drinking water for pupils at the girls' secondary school, transforming their learning conditions.
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Given the fossils already discovered in the cave, including a 120,000-year-old jawbone, there is little doubt that Neanderthal DNA is present at Scladina. Researchers from Leipzig's Max Planck Institute, the world's leading institute in this field, are in Andenne this week to go over the cave with a fine-tooth comb.
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Benin continues its dynamic transformation in the cultural sector. This was the conclusion of the inaugural conference held on Tuesday April 28, 2026 in Cotonou, as part of the first session of the National Commission for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (CNPPC). It was an opportunity for institutional executives, experts and academics involved in safeguarding and promoting cultural heritage to take stock of the progress made, and to look ahead to the challenges and prospects for the future.
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Anatole Mouandza, sub-prefect of the Kellé district in the Cuvette-Ouest department, has just handed over the ambulance for the local Centre de Santé Intégré (CSI) to its beneficiaries.
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Teams from La Poste's sites in Gonesse, Eragny, Domont and Groslay rallied to collect food for the Restos du Cœur.
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Young people talking to other young people about the risks of partying - that's the idea behind "Safe Party". This summer, they will be setting up booths at several of the region's ducasses and festivals. The aim is to provide a non-judgmental approach to the dangers of alcohol consumption and sexual relations at parties.
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The small northern German town of Kosel, in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, has been twinned with the town of La Mézière since 1986.
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In Togo, the Plateforme industrielle d'Adétikopé (PIA) is pursuing its strategy of regional openness. This week, the site welcomed a delegation from the Port Autonome de Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, on a working visit focused on logistical and industrial synergies.
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The City of Ottawa has developed a strategy to deal with the persistent problem of homeless families, a situation that has led hundreds of them to sleep in motels for months on end over the past year.
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Mayor since the last municipal elections, Stéphane Boury is also president of the twinning association linking the towns of Clavier in Belgium and Saint-Pierre-Canivet.
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As part of the EUSEEDS project (Enable, Upgrade and Spread Employability, Entrepreneurship and Digital Skills), co-funded by the European Union as part of the Interreg NEXT MED program, Aix-Marseille Université (France) has launched a series of online training sessions designed to support the 24 beneficiary universities in the creation and development of their employability centers.
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On Friday in Tangier, some 20 young people took part in a training workshop organized by the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Regional Human Rights Commission (CRDH), with the aim of widening the circle of young people committed to abolishing the death penalty.
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The first Swiss asparagus has been harvested this spring, according to the Union maraîchère suisse, and is currently sold mainly through direct channels.
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