Senate Chancellery of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

To take over responsibility for a sustainable development together with countries of the south and to accompany processes of the globalization, is an important part of the free Hanseatic town, Bremen. The Bremen development cooperation makes a contribution to the millennium sighting of the United Nations, to poverty fight, ecological lastingness, strengthening of the human rights and democratic structures. At the same time the development cooperation shows an important element of the international relations of Bremen and protects positive repercussions for the location.

The main focuses are:

• Social-appropriate and environmentally sound projects
• International qualification measures oriented to economy
•  Developing-political work of information and educational work

Bremen promotes projects which should protect basic needs and contribute to the protection of the environment and natural resources. Besides, knowledge management and knowledge transfer as well as the support of self-help potentials are in the foreground also like participative planning processes and ecologically friendly technologies.

Bremen promotes, together with the alliance, international programs to the qualification oriented economy of professional forces and executives from countries of the south. Besides, Bremen as a partner for sustainable development introduces his competence actively and uses the contacts also for the construction more internationally of economic relations. The main emphasis form the main focus in the maritime area like decentralized harbor development, logistics and coastal zone management.

The aim of the developing-political work of information and educational work is to anchor third world aid policy socially better and to contribute to the acquisition of creation competence in a globalized world. Bremen promotes suitable programs of extracurricular educational institutions at school and NGO as a contribution to the conversion of the aims of the UN decade „education for sustainable development“.

For many years Bremen co-operates with the cities of Pune/India, Windhoek/Namibia and Durban / South Africa. Environmental protection and resource protection as well as cultural exchange play a central role in the cooperation. Since 2010 Bremen builds up with the twin town Durban topically a developing partnership for climate and resources protection. Since 2011 Bremen carries the title „Capital of fair trade“. Numerous innovative activities and the support of a big network of the most different actors serve increasingly to move the subject fair trade in the middle of the Bremen society.