Since 2008, we have been doing voluntary work to promote peaceful and friendly coexistence, especially between the municipality of Hofbieber in the Rhön region and the Italian municipal union Unione Montana Acquacheta in Emilia Romagna.

With great joy and even more fun during the photo shooting, the Freundeskreis Italien e.V. took part in the photo competition "Your voluntary work is a matter of the heart" and has now been awarded as the weekly winner in week 5 (28.01.-03.02.2019).

For its active partnership with the Unione Montana Acquacheta (Italy) the Freundeskreis Italien e.V. (Hofbieber) will receive this year's honorary award of the SPD Hessen-Nord in 2017. The prize is endowed with 500 euros and this year's theme was "Europe". The members of the Fulda sub-district are pleased that the jury of the SPD Hessen-Nord has, following their recommendation, awarded the prize to the association in Hofbieber in order to honour and support the voluntary work, emphasises the chairwoman of the SPD sub-district Fulda, Sabine Waschke (Member of the Landtag).

The actors were astonished ... the bilingual book received international awards.

The design of the book with regional recipes from Emilia Romagna and the local Rhön was done in cooperation with Italian friends from the partner region. It was presented to the public for the first time at the Romagna table of pleasure celebration on 8 July 2018 in front of the community centre in Hofbieber.

As initiative of the month of January, the "Freundeskreis Italien - Verein zur Förderung der Gemeindepartnerschaft Hofbieber - Unione Montana Acquacheta." was honoured by the Hessian state government as an exemplary initiative within the framework of the volunteer campaign "Gemeinsam Aktiv - Bürgerengagement in Hessen" (“Active together - civic engagement in Hessen”).