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Welcome to
Cologne Cathedral
Governor
Daniels Visits Cologne
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History, Mission
The Indianapolis-Cologne Sister City Partnership Committee is part of
Sister Cities International, a tax-exempt, non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to foster international understanding at all levels of the community on a continuing long-term basis. Since its founding in 1988, the focus of the committee has remained the same: forging person-to-person bonds between Indianapolis and Cologne.
Our German counterpart organization is
Freundeskreis Koeln - Indianapolis. Its first
and current chairman is
Volkmar Schultz,
former member of the German Bundestag from North Rhine-Westphalia.
For information on Cologne, click here.
Why Sister Cities?
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It
allows the city officials and citizens of both cities to experience
and grow to understand another culture and develop friendships.
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It stimulates education,
exchanges in the arts, and encourages tourism. It also provides
economic opportunities.
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Persons of different cultures
learn to work and solve problems together on municipal, business,
technological, and professional levels.
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It creates people-to-people
connections.
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