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Here you will find all announcements and reports on our activities.

One Ocean - Two Festivals | Cinemare & IOFF
The great cooperation between the two film festivals Cinemare in Kiel and IOFF International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco finds ways to tell their stories of the oceans even under adverse circumstances. In virtual festival format

Bay Area Monthly
BAM - Every last Wednesday of the month! You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with

Digital Challenge
DIGITAL CHALLENGE - Disrupt my Business Take up the challenge of digitalization and let student teams question your existing business model. Be courageous and look the challenge in the eye.

The Digital Challenge 2020
The Digital Challenge 2020 was launched on November 25 in a joint digital kick-off with more than 100 participants. As part of the Digital Challenge, The Bay Areas e.V.

Residents from Kiel and San Francisco move into a virtual shared flat
A new project as part of the city partnership between Kiel and San Francisco enables exchange between the two cities despite corona and creates a transatlantic meeting place for citizens of both cities.

Further partnership agreement concluded.
We would like to congratulate Kiel University of Applied Sciences and San Francisco State University on their partnership agreement! Both universities want to work more closely together in the future. For example, there will be student exchanges and joint activities.

First hybrid Bay Area Monthly
In October, the first hybrid Bay Area Monthly, BAM for short, took place both online and in person at Fleet7 in Kiel. "Doing instead of complaining: how companies are tackling the coronavirus crisis" was

Promotion fund for town twinning
Project funding for joint projects of our city partnership This is a huge opportunity to initiate projects from The Bay Areas Community!

Jan Philipp Albrecht is patron of the Digital Challenge
The Bay Areas e.V. and the Mittelstand 4.0 Competence Center Kiel announce the fourth Digital Challenge. Digitalization Minister Jan Philipp Albrecht is the patron of the Digital Challenge 2020: "The best opportunity to make your business model sustainably digital.