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Congo/ Ecolia: local tutoring for a school in crisis

Against a backdrop of growing concern among parents about their children's school performance, a local initiative is attracting a great deal of attention in Brazzaville. It's called Ecolia, and it offers personalized tutoring for pupils with learning difficulties.

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France/Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal. Twinning to celebrate 20 years of Christmas exchanges

Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal. Almost 20 years of Christmas exchanges for the twinning. If the health situation hadn't prevented them in 2020, the Christmas exchanges between Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal and its twin town of La Plaine-sur-Mer (Loire-Atlantique), via their respective twinning committees, would be in their 20th year.

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Canada/Calgary considers banning the sale of pets in pet stores

In Calgary, the municipal government wants to ban the sale of pets in stores, in order to relieve overcrowding in overcrowded shelters.

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France/Lavaur. Training to grow the local economy

Accompanying, training and supporting: the Communauté de communes Tarn-Agout (CCTA) continues its commitment to a vibrant, supportive economic fabric.

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Belgium/Woluwe-Saint-Pierre: a merger between two schools from different networks

"Benoît Cerexhe, mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, presented the merger project between two Woluwe-Saint-Pierre secondary schools, the Eddy Merckx school center and the Crommelynck royal athenaeum, to the press at the commune's town hall on Tuesday.

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Togo-Benin: the second PRIMA meeting in Kara targets a 30% increase in agricultural trade

The town of Kara is hosting the second regional meeting between the chambers of commerce and industry of Togo and Benin, dedicated to trade in agricultural products, until Friday November 21, 2025. The event is part of the Programme Régional d'Intégration des Marchés Agricoles (PRIMA), financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development over a six-year period.

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Canada/ CDCBF holds a Christmas market

The Corporation de développement communautaire des Bois-Francs (CDCBF) announces its Christmas market, to be held at Place communautaire Rita-St-Pierre, 59 rue Monfette, Victoriaville, on December 4 from 3 to 8 pm.

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France/A town south of Toulouse launches a twinning arrangement with a Ukrainian commune: "A question of solidarity".

Cugnaux announces a twinning agreement with the Ukrainian town of Kulykivka, north of Kiev. The town hall plans to welcome Ukrainian pupils next February.

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Vietnam/ Improving education and building a highly qualified teaching force

The Ministry of Education and Training is currently drafting a decree on professional bonuses for public-sector teaching staff. This decree proposes a two-phase roadmap for increasing these bonuses, scheduled to come into effect on January 1, 2026, at the same time as the implementation of the Teachers Act.

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Canada/Carleton-sur-Mer studies ways to counter coastal erosion

Several well-known sites in Carleton-sur-Mer are threatened by coastal erosion. The municipality has therefore commissioned a study to find out how to protect them.

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Benin launches "JaimeMaLangue": A civic and cultural innovation for a digital future that speaks our languages

The Government of Benin, through the Agence des Systèmes d'Information et du Numérique (ASIN) and the Institute for Inclusive Digital Africa (IIDiA), under the supervision of the Ministère du Numérique et de la Digitalisation (MND), with the support of the Gates Foundation and Sèmè City - Hub of innovation and experimentation dedicated to training, research and entrepreneurship, officially launched the national "JaimeMaLangue" project on Monday November 10, 2025 at the Novotel Hôtel in Cotonou.

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France/Millau and Plopeni celebrate 10 years of twinning: a story of Franco-Romanian friendship

On Monday November 17, Millau welcomed a Romanian delegation led by Dragos Nita, Mayor of Plopeni, to celebrate 10 years of official twinning between the two towns.

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Belgium/Business Transfer Week: the sale of Glacetronome in Namur illustrates this point

Wallonie Entreprendre organizes the 10th edition of Transmission Week. Passing on or taking over a business is a major challenge, and Baudouin Lénelle is not one to deny it. This former journalist turned artisanal ice-cream maker. Today, he is selling his Namur-based business to one of his colleagues.

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Chad - Agricultural cooperation: Construction work launched on the Camelin Livestock Center

The agricultural development program in Chad, piloted by Hungary, enters a new concrete phase.

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Morocco/Taliouine hosts the 16th International Saffron Festival

The town of Taliouine, Taroudant province, is hosting its 16th International Saffron Festival from November 20 to 23, under the theme "Sustainable management of water resources: a lever for the development of the saffron industry in mountainous regions".

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Canada/Abitibi RCM examines the development of its agricultural zone

The Abitibi MRC is in the process of updating its agricultural zone development plan (PDZA). Stakeholders from the agricultural, agrifood and territorial development sectors are expected to attend the 1st review forum this Tuesday, in Landrienne.

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France/Twinning of Saint-Cyrpien and Sant Cebrià consecrated

The Jean-Rous 2025 trophy was officially awarded to the Saint-Cyprien - Sant Cebrià de Vallalta twinning committee, in a warm and symbolic ceremony saluting the organization's remarkable commitment to local and cross-border life.

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Vietnam/Hanoi University: Job Fair 2025

On November 12, as part of Hanoi University's Job Fair 2025, the Centre d'Employabilité Francophone (CEF) organized a Sustainable Tourism Job Fair, in collaboration with the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and the AUF - Asia-Pacific.

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Canada/Operation Red Nose returns to our regions

The Opération Nez rouge drive-home service will be back from November 28 to December 31 in Charlevoix, Trois-Pistoles, the Chaleur region, the Acadian Peninsula and Edmundston.

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France/Decazeville. The Italian Twinning Committee returns from Coazze

Over the years, the ties between Decazevillois and Coazzesi have remained strong.

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Benin/Lancement du Projet JaimeMaLangue : Vers la construction d'une IA adaptée aux langues beninoises

Since 2016, Benin has established itself as a model of responsible digital development in Africa. With this same dynamic in mind, a new era began on Monday November 10, 2025 in Cotonou with the official launch of the "JaimeMaLangue" project.

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Canada/AD25 at CÉGEP DE Rivière-du-Loup: "Ah, but what a circus!

Art and design students at CÉGEP de Rivière-du-Loup get creative during AD25 week.

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France/NOTE AUX COLLECTIVITÉS TERRITORIALES - Third ECM meeting - Occitanie Coopération

Every two years, Occitanie Coopération organizes regional meetings on education for global citizenship in an Occitanie school.

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France/Frontignan-Gaeta, a twinning of the heart

Between September 22 and 28, they visited the famous Tuscan towns of Siena, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Florence, and Gaeta, in the province of Latina on the Tyrrhenian coast.

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Belgium/A growing number of Brussels schools awarded the "Eco-Schools" label

More and more Brussels schools have been awarded the "Eco-Schools" label: there are now 55 of them, including eight that have received this distinction for the first time. This international label rewards schools for their commitment to the climate transition. An essential point: pupils must be fully involved in the reflection and implementation of projects.

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Togo/ Maritime Region: a 4 billion FCFA roadmap to accelerate regional development

At the end of last week, Togo's Maritime Regional Council adopted a roadmap setting out the directions, priorities and actions to be implemented to boost the region's development over the period 2025-2027. The initiatives identified will require a total of 4 billion FCFA in funding.

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Canada/A 100% female municipal council on Anticosti Island

Hélène Boulanger is proud to head the municipality of L'Île-d'Anticosti. Her municipal council is unique in that it is made up entirely of women. On November 2, voters re-elected the mayor and all outgoing councillors.

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Chad: in Mandoul, AARMOC visits women detainees at the prison

As part of its program to train and reintegrate volunteers from Action des Artistes pour le Développement et l'Education aux Droits Humains (AARMOC), a delegation made up of the AARMOC team and sponsored by the deputy mayor of the commune of Koumra, Gnanroy Mbanguidana Grâce, visited the prison.

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France/Saint-Paul: AP2B celebrates twenty-five years of twinning between Haute Gironde and Burgundy

The Association des pays de Blaye et de Bourgogne gathered its members to celebrate a quarter-century of exchanges and conviviality.

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France/Twinning Blois-Lewes-Waldshut-Tiengen: a dense program for 2026

From October 17 to 19, the Three Towns Summit was held, bringing together the elected representatives and twinning associations of Blois, Lewes (UK) and Waldshut-Tiengen (Germany). Chaired by Marc Gricourt and Emily Clarke, Mayor of Lewes, the meeting had three objectives: to take stock of twinning activities in the three towns in 2025, to enable local associations and structures to make contact with the twin towns' delegations present in Blois, and to draw up a program of activities for 2026.

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Cambodia/Visit to a food processing company in Kampong Thom

On October 29, 2025, some 90 students from AUF-Cambodia member universities took part in a study trip to Kampong Thom province.

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Morocco/Aousserd province: ONEE launches construction of a hybrid power plant to boost electricity supply

On Monday, the Office national de l'électricité et de l'eau potable (ONEE) launched the construction of a hybrid power plant with battery storage backed by solar energy and thermal flexibility at the Aousserd Center in the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region.

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Canada/ Nearly $360,000 to protect and enhance agricultural land

The Cégep de Victoriaville's Centre d'innovation sociale en agriculture (CISA) has been awarded $359,990 in funding from the Fonds d'innovation sociale destiné aux collèges et aux communautés (FISCC) to implement its Innover pour la protection et la valorisation de la zone agricole project.

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France/ NOTE AUX COLLECTIVITÉS TERRITORIALES - Invitation aux Deuxièmes assises de la diplomatie parlementaire et de la coopération décentralisée

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please find attached the invitation from Mr Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, to the Second Conference on Parliamentary Diplomacy and Decentralized Cooperation, to be held at the Quai d'Orsay on Tuesday November 18th at 5.30pm, together with the provisional program.

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