EUROPEAN MEETING CENTRE - NOWY STAW FOUNDATION
At the beginning of June Lublin hosted a delegation from the partner city Münster. The partnership of cities consists mostly on human contacts, thats why we invited the citizens of Münster to visit Lublin.
The organisers of the visit are the Civil Association Lublin-Münster, the European Meeting Centre – Nowy Staw Foundation and Förderverein Münster-Lublin in Germany.
The aim of the meeting was to get to know the inhabitants of the partner city with our city and region and moreover with the local community and the institutions of Lublin.
The 28 guests met with the President of Lublin Włodzimierz Wysocki, Priest Dariusz Chwastek Rector of the Evangelic Parish in Lublin, Archbishop Abel and the Consul of Honour of Germany in Lublin.
In the program there were sightseeing visits, the guests from Germany visited Lublin (Old Town, Castle Chapel, heritage park), Zamość and Poleski National Park. They also visited the Museum in Majdanek.
A crucial part of the program were the integration meetings with members of the Civil Association Lublin-Münster and members of the Evangelic Parish, which allowed a better getting to know of the inhabitants of both partner cities as well as planning of the further collaboration between institutions of both cities.
Some participants have earlier been to Lublin, but most of them visited our city for the very first time. Those guests who have had personal or professional contacts in Lublin before had the possibility to visit their friends and to plan the future collaboration with partners from Lublin, other persons could make new contacts.
The guests from Germany came back home with plenty of positive impressions and enchanted by Lublin. The next civil visit will take place next year, this time Lublin inhabitants will visit Münster
Project financially supported by the Foundation of Polish-German Collaboration.
