Around 170 senior citizens from Chemnitz took part in the "Connected by Culture" trip to the Czech twin town of Ústí nad Labem at the beginning of December, which was supported by funding from Interreg and the Elbe-Labe Euroregion.
In addition to a visit to an exhibition, a tour of the city and a visit to the Christmas market, the participants were treated to a concert by the symphony orchestra at the end of the trip.

Chemnitz celebrated Europe from 6 to 10 May. Together with the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH and other project partners, the city of Chemnitz offered a diverse programme. Europe Week was one of the highlight weeks in the year of the European Capital of Culture, during which the city of Chemnitz also welcomed numerous guests from Germany and abroad.

The focus of Europe Week was the twin city conference from 7 to 9 May. Guests from seven of Chemnitz's twin cities took part, including representatives from Tampere, Düsseldorf, Łódź, Kirjiat Bialik, Ljubljana, Manchester and Timbuktu. In addition to an exchange of expertise between the cities on the topics of culture and urban development, contributions on international work from the partner cities were presented.

On 6 May, Lord Mayor Sven Schulze and Miriam Koch, Councillor for Culture and Integration of the City of Düsseldorf, opened the representation of the twin city in the year of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 in the Stadtwirtschaft. This shows the lived city partnership and is intended to further intensify the cultural dialogue between the two cities. The opening of the installation "eight planets, one star, one world (2025)" by Düsseldorf conceptual artist Mischa Kuball, who was also present, marked the start of Düsseldorf's representation in the context of the European Capital of Culture year 2025. The opening of the exhibition also heralded the start of the twin city conference.

The cities of Chemnitz and Manchester have been twinned for 40 years. This anniversary was celebrated in Chemnitz on 3 and 4 November 2023 together with the Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester, Yasmine Dar.

Among other things, there was a city tour on a historic tram, including to the "Stadtwirtschaft", an intervention area for the European Capital of Culture 2025. In the presence of Lord Mayor Sven Schulze, Yasmine Dar signed the Golden Book of the City of Chemnitz on Friday afternoon.

Kiryat Bialik is Chemnitz's twelfth twin city. On Wednesday, 26 October 2022, Lord Mayor Sven Schulze and Mayor of Kiryat Bialik, Eli Dukorski, signed a joint "Agreement on twinning between the City of Chemnitz and the City of Kiryat Bialik".

Afterwards, Mayor Eli Durkorski signed the city's Golden Book.

The city of Chemnitz has maintained friendly relations with the Finnish city of Tampere since 1961. In 2022, it was finally possible to celebrate the 60th anniversary of this town twinning. There were numerous opportunities to do so at the end of September. The highlight was the Finnish afternoon in Stadthallenpark on 1 October 2022 under the motto "Mölkky, Music, Makarra".

There was also an exhibition at the adult education centre, a Finnish film evening at Metropol, a sauna festival at Zietenaugust and a reading at the city library.

From 30 September to 1 October 2022, a delegation from the Finnish twin city of Tampere also visited Chemnitz. Among others: Aleksi Jäntti, Deputy Mayor of Tampere. He was accompanied by the Director of Culture and Education Lauri Savi and staff from Visit Tampere.

On 24 April 2022, Lord Mayor Sven Schulze inaugurated a stele about Chemnitz's twin cities together with twinning associations and the Chemnitz Tour Guide Association.

The information board on Neumarkt square provides an overview of Chemnitz's twin towns. Anyone looking at the information stele will find out, for example, where the twin towns are located, how long the partnership has existed and how far the towns are from Chemnitz.

The stele was financed from the city centre fund at a cost of around 3,500 euros. It is the first stele in Chemnitz to include a Braille plaque so that visually impaired people can also recognise the eleven city names.

The City of Chemnitz hosted the first conference of twin cities on 10 and 11 April 2019. Under the title "Town twinning in challenging times", delegations from Chemnitz's twin cities Düsseldorf, Ljubljana, Lodz, Manchester, Mulhouse, Tampere, Timbuktu, Usti nad Labem and Volgograd were guests over two days in April. The twin city conference focussed on urban development, culture, civic participation and the Capital of Culture bid.