Empowering citizens

My European Citizens' Initiative journey!
Read MoreHave a greater say on the EU policies that affect your life! Are you concerned about the environment? Education in the EU? Consumer protection, etc.? Then get involved, share your ideas, connect with other citizens and bring about change. Find out more about the European Citizens' Initiative, a unique way for EU citizens to help shape the EU [...]
Read More Empowering citizensInnoSchool Innovative "Serious Game"
Read MoreThe InnoSchool project aims to strengthen social innovation and the entrepreneurial abilities of secondary school students by developing and introducing into the curriculum a highly innovative learning system. We designed this new learning system to raise social awareness and develop entrepreneurial competencies and related skills in students. The [...]
Read More Empowering citizensStories from Calabria
Read MoreStories from Calabria ("Racconti di Calabria") is an innovative communication web platform from the Calabria Region, designed to promote the results of European cohesion policy in Calabria through the means of a new narrative. The ROP Communication Strategy adopted by the Calabria Region focuses on the beneficiaries, who become witnesses and storyt [...]
Read More Empowering citizensStudio Europa Maastricht
Read MoreStudio Europa Maastricht aims to position Maastricht as a meeting place for citizen dialogue and debate and establish a Centre of Excellence for research on Europe and European integration. In short: a workplace for a better Europe. For everyone. Our mission is to stimulate active, critical debate with citizen engagement at its core. We are supp [...]
Read More Empowering citizensEurodyssey: 35 Years Promoting Youth Mobility
Read MoreEurodyssey is the international youth exchange programme of the Assembly of European Regions (AER). For thirty-five years, the Eurodyssey programme has been giving young job seekers the opportunity to undertake tailor-made traineeships in one of AER’s member regions across Europe, providing them with invaluable opportunities for personal and [...]
Read More Empowering citizensAt the School of OpenCohesion – GREECE
Read MoreAt the School of OpenCohesion Greece" is the pilot implementation of the Italian ASOC Project in the regions of Peloponnese, Ionian Islands and Thessaly. The stand presents the civic monitoring expedition of 11 school teams (219 students) on 11 EU-funded projects. Their work - including research design, journalistic articles with infographics, virt [...]
Read More Empowering citizensEuropean Solidarity Corps
Read MoreThe European Solidarity Corps supports young people to engage in solidarity activities, abroad or in their own country, in projects that benefit communities. The programme funds private and public entities to develop projects with participation of young people covering a broad range of topics such as inclusion, environment or youth work . It provid [...]
Read More Empowering citizensThe Citizens' Shadow Report
Read MoreVisit our stand to learn more about The Shadow Report project, an initiative of CSOs to prepare an implementation report on EU macro-regional policies from a citizens’ perspective! Citizens from the four macro regions – the Baltic Sea, the Danube, the Adriatic-Ionian and the Alpine – will join forces to compile a shadow report in parallel wit [...]
Read More Empowering citizensThe day after: what Europe do you dream of?
Read MoreThe current crisis is an opportunity to dare to dream and imagine a more ambitious Europe. This space’s aim is to crowdsource the ideas of local and regional representatives on key themes for Europe's future. Participants are invited to share the ideas via #localgov and #EURegionsWeek.
Read More Empowering citizensEuropean Commission Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO)
Read MoreDG REGIO will present several communication actions at the 18th European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek). Each of these actions have a different focus but the same objective: to make cohesion policy results more visible to European citizens. In close cooperation with EU programmes’ partners and increasing citizens’ engagement, you [...]
Read More Empowering citizensINTERREG 30 years: Including Youth in cooperation
Read MoreAs one of three topics of the Interreg 30-year campaign, “youth” aims to underline young peoples’ contribution to Interreg, as stakeholders, as participants in projects and as Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) (see separate exhibition under Cohesion and Cooperation). In addition, we have strived to involve youth in the preparations of the next g [...]
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