The QuattroPole region - consisting of the cities of Trier, Saarbrücken, Luxembourg, and Metz - has shown enormous willingness to help, successful communication and fast action between the cities, not only during the COVID pandemic, but also during the flood disaster in the summer of 2021.

"We, as the city of Trier, were shown that a secure network is necessary, that you can't always help yourself, that you have to rely on external support... For us it has changed, that we pay more attention to supporting each other, especially in this network, QuattroPole.” (A.Kirchartz)

In 2021, the city network QuattroPole received the special prize of the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation for its exemplary cooperation during the Corona pandemic. The foundation hereby honors outstanding achievements in municipal administrative practice in Europe. The award is intended to promote peaceful cooperation between municipalities in Europe that brings people together.

The protagonists are:

• Wolfram Leibe (Lord Mayor of the City of Trier)
• Didier Dandrifosse (Head of the Medical Department, Luxembourg Air Rescue)
• Ingo Wagenknecht (Deputy Head of the Office for Fire and Civil Protection, City of Saarbrücken)
• Andreas Kirchartz (Head of the Office for Fire, Civil Protection and Rescue, City of Trier)
• Marianne Goerdeler (Granddaughter of the former Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig)

Learn how the QuattroPole network of cities together overcame the challenges of the pandemic and successfully strengthened their partnership

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