Nizhyn will be the first partner city for State College, PA, US.

This is reported by the official website of the Nizhyn City Council.

“This is a unique city. Half of the city’s population are students of Pennsylvania State University, one of the largest colleges in the country. Back in the summer of 2022, we established friendly relations with Ezra Nanes, Mayor of State College, whose great-grandfather came from Ukraine. Moreover, initiated by the State College community, in no small part thanks to Svitlana Budzhak-Jones’ activism, Nizhyn has been systematically supported by State College for the past year,” the City Council’s website reads.

The USAID HOVERLA Project has also contributed to the twinning.

Signing a Memorandum of Cooperation will be the next step, bringing cooperation to a qualitatively new level. The cooperation between Nizhyn and State College will be focused on education, culture, sports, business and agricultural development.

On April 19-20, the International Summit of Cities and Regions was held in Ukraine, organised by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine. Among its tasks was the consolidation of the international community of local and regional authorities in support of Ukraine. At the Summit alone, 11 different agreements were signed on international inter-municipal and inter-regional cooperation. Moreover, at the International Summit of Cities and Regions, representatives of the local self-government of Ukraine and about thirty other countries, as well as the highest officials of Ukraine, witnessed by high-ranking officials of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Council of Europe, the European Committee of the Regions, declared their readiness to join efforts to help in building a peaceful, democratic and prosperous future, to contribute to the establishment of a comprehensive, just and sustainable peace in Ukraine to ensure international security and stability of the entire world.