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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SMEs play a central role but face many risks in digital transformation. Strengthening cybersecurity and a supportive ecosystem is essential to ensure sustainable development in the digital age.
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A return to agriculture is no longer a slogan in Wendou Bosséabé, a village in the commune of Orkadiéré, in the Matam region (north), where the availability of a modern irrigation system has sparked renewed interest in working the land, very often coupled with livestock farming.
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Under Bagré's relentless April sun, between the dust of the road and the pale reflections of the irrigation canals, young agro-entrepreneurs are ploughing their furrows. Boots on their feet for some, hands plunged into piles of freshly harvested onions for others, many of these students have swapped the lecture halls for the fields. They were the first to experiment with an incubation program that attracted many students from the regions in various fields. Their challenge? To make agriculture a path to excellence and contribute in their own way to food self-sufficiency in Burkina Faso.
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Québec confirms its intention to create Côte-de-Charlevoix National Park. The Ministry of the Environment launched a public consultation process on April 18.
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The year 2026 will be marked by a number of international events focusing on water-related issues and the fight against the consequences of climate change, such as the High-Level Political Forum, the Desertification COP and the United Nations Water Conference.
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The town of Beaucouzé (Maine-et-Loire) and the Comité d'Echanges et de Jumelage (CEJ) have announced a rich and varied Ascension weekend in honor of their friends from Selb (Bavaria). A monumental fresco by artist Botero Pop at the Aubineau complex was inaugurated.
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On April 13 in Kintélé, Antoine Béli Bokolojoué, President of the Congolese Order of Architects (OAC), signed an agreement with Prof. Ange Antoine Abena, President of the Université Denis-Sassou-N'Guesso (UDSN), to support the alma mater in reformulating its curricula and supervising students' continuing education.
Read moreThe 2025 Official Development Assistance (ODA) declaration campaign for French local authorities is open on the Démarche numérique website until May 31, 2026.
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