Our partner city, Lille, has a fantastic opportunity for a young person from, or living in Leeds to spend an 8 month internship working as an Ambassador of European Cultures. Based with Interphaz, an organisation that promotes citizen participation, international solidarity and youth mobility, you’ll be working to promote intercultural awareness in schools and participating… Read More Work experience opportunity in Lille
Last week elected Leaders and Mayors from cities, towns and regions across came together at the inaugural UK – France Mayor’s summit in London. This is a new forum created by Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron, designed to strengthen existing partnerships between towns and cities in France and the UK, and… Read More UK – France Mayors’ summit
Today’s guest bloggers responded to a call-out we made in the summer for young ambassadors from Leeds to work in the International Relations team in our French twin city of Lille. Rhiannon Copeland and Megan Dunworth tell us about their first few months in their exciting role. We left Leeds at the end of October 2018 as… Read More From Leeds to Lille – working across borders
Over the summer we put a call out for Leeds artists who were interested in joining an international project led by an arts organisation in our partner city of Lille called “Les Rencontres Audiovisuelles”. They selected Leeds artist Paul Miller to participate and this is his account of the residency. There were many reasons to be excited about… Read More Exploring art, light and sound in Lille
Today’s guest blog is from Sally Hall from Leeds City Council’s Learning Improvement Team which is involved in a European funded project called GRIET. The project brings together schools and educational specialists from three cities – Bacau in Romania, Lille in France and Leeds. Funded by ERASMUS+, the focus of the project is on pedagogy and practice for speakers… Read More Learning about language in Romania and France
Today’s guest blog is by Martin Grund from Leeds Young Film Festival who has just returned from Lille’s International Solidarity Festival. Following on from the PACE project (Partnerships in Arts and Cultural Education) which gave me the opportunity to visit Lille in January 2018 to witness how the arts, and in particular film, was being used in… Read More Leeds Young Film Festival in Lille
This week our French partner city of Lille has held a “week of international solidarity” to mark 60 years of international cooperation with cities around the world, including the 50 year old partnership with Leeds. As part of the programme Lille held a round table on climate for the Mayors and Leaders of twelve of… Read More Leeds takes to the stage at Lille’s International Solidarity Week
