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• Did you know that we produce a Twinning newsletter?
• Twinning for businesses and organisations
• Twinning for schools
• Twinning for youth and adult groups
• Twinning Grant Regulations
• Visiting Osnabruck - your twin City
• How to get to Osnabrück
• Osnabrück contact details
• contact details

Derby and Osnabrück in Germany have been twinned since 1976 and since then the two cities have appointed envoys to work in the twin cities’ Council.

The envoys help and support our twinning relationship in a number of ways:

• Assistance with setting up economic links between businesses from Derby and Osnabrück
• Assistance with setting up cultural links between the twin cities
• Assistance with setting up links between schools from Derby and Osnabrück
• Assistance with setting up links between youth and adult groups from the two cities
• Advice on holidays to the twin cities
• Assistance with finding work placements in the twin city
• Advice on accommodation while staying in the twin city
• And much more…!

If you have a twinning related enquiry or would like to know more about how the envoys can assist you, please don’t hesitate to contact us

Our current Osnabrück Envoy to Derby is Katharina Thieken and our Derby Envoy to Osnabrück is currently Alexander Smith

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Twinning for businesses and organisations

 “Osnabrück is the an important cultural centre within Lower Saxony and the vital centre of an economic region with around 780,000 inhabitants, which includes not only Lower Saxony but also parts of North Rhine-Westphalia.” 

If you have an interest in getting in contact with businesses and organisations from Osnabrück in order to set up economic links or to share good practice please don’t hesitate to contact the Osnabrück Envoy.

The Osnabrück Envoy works with the support of the Derby Tourism team, the Economic Regeneration team and Marketing Derby on making the twinning more beneficial from a business point of view.

This means that we are now focusing on:

• Creating business links between the two cities
• And attracting visitors from Osnabrück to  Derby

You can find out more about the existing economic links between the two cities by contacting the Osnabrück Envoy.

Twinning for schools

Our envoys can find a partner school from Osnabrück that your school can twin up with. The Osnabrück Envoy can also come to your school to talk to the pupils about Osnabrück and Germany. We can also establish contact with University students from Osnabrück who would like to volunteer as a teaching assistant in Derby.

If you are interested in establishing educational twinning links with schools from Osnabrück, please contact the envoys.

Over the years many schools from across Derbyand Derbyshire have established twinning links with schools from Osnabrück and given their pupils the opportunity to become friends with pupils from Osnabrück. There are lots of different projects that schools from Osnabrück andDerbycan work on together:

• Exchanges between the schools’ bands
• Exchanges between the schools’ theatre groups
• Pen pal exchanges
• Combined projects – both schools work on the same topics and exchanges their achievements and experiences
• Christmas Card exchanges and lots more…

Twinning for youth and adult groups

Sports, Theatre, Art, Literature, the great outdoors and all the other personal interests and hobbies you can think of are shared by many people from all around the world. And some of the groups who share your personal interests probably live in Osnabrück.

If you are interested in establishing a twinning links with a group from Osnabrück that shares the same interest as your group, please contact the envoys.

Twinning Grant Regulations

Some of the twinning activities get a grant from the Council. Check the Twinning Grant Regulations of Housting Groups, Travel Group and Individual Travel to see if you are entitled to this.  For more information please contact the envoys.

Visiting Osnabrück - your twin city

Osnabrück is a beautiful city located in the north-west of Germany and has around 164,000 inhabitants.

The city has a long and rich history, is surrounded by beautiful countryside and is a vivant cultural place which offers lots of things to do and see for everyone

Osnabrück has a history of peace: it is the city of the Peace of Westphalia and the home to the painter Felix Nussbaum and the writer Erich Maria Remarque

If you would like to visit Osnabrück, please do not hesitate to contact the envoys as they are happy to assist you with the planning of your trip.

Each year the Osnabrück Envoy organises the Osnabrück Trip for Derby residents to visit their twin city. Anyone from Derby can come along! If you are interested, just contact the Osnabrück Envoy.

One of Osnabrück’s cultural highlights each year is the May Week Festival, which is one of northernGermany’s biggest music events. Bands from all over come to Osnabrück and you can enjoy their music live from over 10 open-air stages around the city centre. Have a pint of German beer and a Bratwurst while you enjoy to the music with your family and friends!

The biggest event towards the end of the year is Osnabrück’s Christmas Market. The Market attracts over a million visitors each year and was voted the best Christmas Market in northernGermany in 2004. The beautiful craft stalls, spicy "Glühwein" (mulled wine) and freshly-roasted almonds are waiting for you!

How to get to Osnabrück

There are many routes from Derby to Osnabrück. Three possible ways to get there can be found below; if you need any help please contact the Osnabrück Envoy:

• Fly from East Midlands Airport to Amsterdam Airport
• Catch a direct train from Amsterdam Airport to Osnabrück Train Station
• Fly from London Stansted Airport to Münster-OsnabrückAirport
• Use the shuttle bus leaving fromMünster-OsnabrückAirportto get to Osnabrück city centre
• Fly from Birmingham International Airport to Hannover Airport/Düsseldorf Airport
• Go by bus to the city’s main train station
• Catch a direct train from Hannover/Düsseldorf Train Station to Osnabrück

Osnabrück contact details

Stadt Osnabrück
Städtepartnerschaftsbüro
Bierstraße 28
49074 Osnabrück
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)541 3232192
Fax: +49 (0)541 3232741
Email: botschafter-gb@osnabrueck.de

Useful forms

• Twinning grant application - hosting (Groups) (word, 58kb)
• Twinning grant application - travel (Groups) (word, 59kb)
• Twinning Grant Application - Travel (Individuals) (word, 54kb)
• Town twinning

Useful links

• Osnabruck - English