Dear Visitor,
The Foundation for the Development of Democratic Local Public Administration (DHFKA) and the Hungarian National Association of Local Authorities (TÖOSZ) assessed the twinning relations of Hungarian municipalities and counties. As a result of the project a new online database and website is created:
- with detailed data on the twinning relations of Hungarian municipalities, counties, the capital, and its district, which is available for everyone online;
- is updated on a continuous basis;
- that contain best practices, methodological guideline on establishing twinning contacts, and local governments may also share their best practices here;
- the website also contains a “partner search” surface that enables Hungarian and international municipalities to establish new contacts.
the data of the website are results of a survey based on questionnaires undertaken among Hungarian local governments in 2018 and an extensive search of public data also undertaken in 2018, also the results of a survey of the Ministry of Interior from 2014 made use of.
There are all together 3940 twinning relations of Hungarian municipalities, 1517 Hungarian local governments have twinning relations, on average every Hungarian local government have 1,27 twin relation. Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county has the most relationship: 27.
We would like our website to be informative enough for all those interested in twinning and international relations. We are confident that you will be able to use all the information here and thereby we give valuable help for your professional work. Please feel free to send us your comments, suggestions so that we may use them during the further improvement of our website.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Imre Verebélyi
President of the Advisory Board of The Foundation for the Development of Democratic Local Public Administration (DHFKA)