 AUSTRIA
- City Friend: City of VIENNA (2004)
- "BEAUTIFUL SERBIA" – Project on temporary employment and professional training – financially supported by Austrian Government in partnership with the City of Niš and Dutch Government (2004)
- Cooperation with GRAZ (Fair 2004 and Graz Film festival 2004).
 BULGARIA  GREECE
- Municipality of GLIFADA from Athens - twinning protocol was signed in 1999
- City Friend:
- Thessaloniki (2000)
- Municipality of MAROUSI from Athens (1999)
- Municipality of ALIMOS from Athens (1999)
- Municipality of KASSANDRA (1996)
- Municipality of SPARTA (1996)
- Honorary citizens of Niš:
- Kyriaki Panajotidi,
- Haralampus and Joanne Anastasiou from the humanitarian organization "Benjamin",
- Dimitris Xenitellis, former Greek Consul in Niš.
 DENMARK
- AARHUS (2009) – Twinning Protocol.
- AARHUS (2009) – Agreement on Cooperation on the Employment Center Project.
- Program LEDIB - a five-year programme for support to local economic development with a focus on development of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Sector. In line with the strategy of the Danish Neighbourhood Programme, LEDIB covers Nišava District and is in support of the poverty reduction strategies of Serbia.
 ITALY
- Settlement and Integration of Refugees Programme in Serbia – SIRP. UN-HABITAT is implementing the Programme together with the national partner, Ministry of Capital Investments of the Republic of Serbia.
- Informative Communication Center for Entrepreneurship Development was opened at Nis City Administration within SEENET programme financed by the Italian Ministry of Exterior and Tuscany Region and implemented by Italian NGO UCODEP, Serbian National Employment Service, Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Empolese Valdesa Regional Development Agency.
- Cooperation with regions of Tuscany, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Apulia, Emilia Romagna through the implementation of EU projects.
- CITY OF NIŠ DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY - Project financed by the Government of Italy
within SIRP Settlement and Integration of Refugees Programme in Serbia
with the technical support of UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme
and with the technical assistance of ERVET Emilia Romagna Valorizzazione Economica Territorio.
- Honorary citizen of Niš Ms Ligia Ramirez, Head of UN HABITAT in Belgrade and on the project of City of Niš Development Strategy.
- Collection and transport of communal waste from the settlements Sicevo and Prosek – donation from NGO COOPI Italia (2004).
 CYPRUS
- Anticipated twinning with YERMASOYIA.
 HUNGARY
- The Honorary Consulate of Republic of Hungary was opened led by the Honorary Consul Miloje Branković.
 GERMANY
- Housing Units Construction For Refugees From Bosnia And Hercegovina And Croatia - donation from Federal Republic of Germany over implementation partner Federal Institute for technical help THW.
- BAD HOMBURG – Twinning initiative in September 1999 with Municipality Spa of Niš.
- Cooperation with German humanitarian non-governmental organization HELP on the projects of support to the individual enterprising and provision of expert education, as well as earlier projects on supply with medical equipment and ortopedic equipment for the City association of children and cerebral paralysis, and for daily care hospital for children and adolescents at t he Clinic for mental health protection Niš).
- Cooperation with InWent (2002)
 ROMANIA
- Anticipated cooperation with CRAIOVA (2008)
- City Department for sport has established sport cooperation with Turgusiou.
 SLOVAKIA
- KOŠICE – Twinning Agreement signed in March 2001.
 SLOVENIA
- Municipality of Ljubljana – established cooperation in 2010
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 UNITED KINGDOM
- City Friend: City of LEEDS (2009)
- Honorary Consular Agent Dr. Petar Bošnjaković
- Cooperation with International school for pieceful studies from London on the project realisation "Youth: the Right Course".
 FRANCE
- Honorary Consular Agent Saša Miljković.
- French Cultural Center in City of Niš is opened in cooperation with Cooperation and Cultural Affairs Department of the French Embassy in Belgrade.
- City of Niš is a member of the Association of the Local Democracy Agencies ALDA. In 2001 the Office of the Local Democracy Agency was opened in Niš.
- Contacts with the Economic Department of the Embassy (2005)
 NEDERLANDS
- GOOD FARM - donation from Dutch Government Support Program to local communities in Serbia (2005)
- "BEAUTIFUL SERBIA" – Project on temporary employment and professional training – financially supported by Dutch Government in partnership with the City of Niš and Austrian Government (2005)
 SWEDEN
- Agreement for consultancy services for Feasibility Study for the municipal infrastructure priority projects (Airport, PUC "Naissus" Water supply system). The Letter of intent was signed with the representatives of the Ministry of foreign affairs of Sweden and the consulting company SEK Advisory Services (2009)
- Letter of intent signed with the city of Växjö (2009)
- RIVER OF MILK – Financial support by the Government of Sweden (2003)
 SPAIN
- City Friend: City of Barcelona.
 ISRAEL  JAPAN
- Housing Construction for disabled persons – Government of Japan, project partner (2006)
 MACEDONIA
- Euroregion "EuroBalkans" (Triangle Niš-Sofia-Skopje) comprises 15 cities and municipalities from Macedona.
 NORWAY
- Project on entrepreneurship, training and services in Niš (Business Incubator Centre) – Partners in the project: Ministry of foreign affairs of Norway and Norwegian Foundation for scientific and industrial financing SINTEF (2005).
- Establishing of the Regional centre for professional development in education in Niš – donation from Republic of Norway Government (2004).
- Norwegian Ministry of External Affairs supported the reconstruction of the airport Constantine the Great with 4 million Euros (2003).
- SALTDAL COMMUNE (ROGNAN) - cooperation first started in 1986, but was unfortunately interrupted by wars and sanctions. In May 2002 this cooperation was renewed and re-established with a Letter of Intent signed by two cities.
- Honorary citizen of Niš Hans Ola Urstad, former ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway in Serbia
 RUSSIA
- Cooperation between the City of Niš and the Department for cooperation and cultural affairs of the Russian Embassy in Belgrade (2006)
- KURSK - Friendly relationship between two cities, Niš and Kursk has been lasting from 1920. Cooperation Agreement between the City of Niš and City of Kursk was signed on September 24th, 2006.
 USA
- Cooperation between the City of Niš and USAID - Memorandum of understending between the City of Niš and Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), implementing agency of Preparedness, Planning and Economic Security Program (PPES) - Disaster Relief (2008)
- Cooperation between the City of Niš and USAID - Memorandum of understending between the City of Niš and the Urban Institute (UI), implementing agency of the USAID Municipal Economic Growth Activity - MEGA (2008)
- BUSINESS IMPROVMENT DISTRICT (BID) - donation from USAID (CHF) (2004)
- Cooperation between the City of Niš and USAID (United States Agency for International Development) (2003)
- Cooperation between the City of Niš and Department for press and culture of the U.S.Embassy in Belgrade (2003)
- City Friend: Columbus, Ohio.
 TURKEY
- EDYRNE - Draft Protocol of the Twinning.
 SWITZERLAND
- During 2009, Regional Center for Professional Develpoment of Educators in Niš joined the PDP project (Professional Develpoment Project), which has been bein implemented on the basis od MoU signed between the Swiss government – Swiss Agency for the Development and Cooperation (SDC) nad RS Mionsitry of Education in 2003.
- In 2001, the City of Niš signed the agreement on the implementation of the municipality support programme with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The programme consisted of five components: 1) municipality development 2) education and training 3) administration reforms 4) the development of private sector and 5) integration of the minority groups into society. The Swiss government financed the following:
- part of the construction works for the reconstruction of the overpass in Zetska street
- the construction of the collector in the village of Medoševac
- the construction of the primary school Milan Rakić in Medoševac
- the installation of four new switch into transformer station NIŠ 2, which secured the stable functioning of the whole electric power transfer system.
In 2004, SDC, together with UNHCR and the City of Niš built 46 flats for the refugees in the settlement of Pasi Poljana.
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