Research is one of the five key dimensions by which the LADDER Project aims to inform, raise awareness and engage citizens, civil society organisations and local authorities in global issues, global interdependency and development education. This essential component was developed during the first two years of the LADDER project assuming a multiple approach and creating 5 different [...]
Ana Maria Ilie What does "Poverty Porn" mean? Is any type of media - written, photography, film - that exploits the state of the poor to generate sympathy, to collect charitable donations or support for a particular cause. It is usually used to highlight poverty in African and the urgency to donate for children in order [...]
Hasan Haj In Mid-April I was chosen to take part in a global education program called “You are part of the world, be part of its future”, a long term program that includes two phases of training, in Serbia and Romania. Between the two phases, I managed to deliver 4 workshops to increase awareness [...]
Hasan Haj My awareness towards taking care of our planet increased in July 2015, when I watched an Arabic program named “Khawater”, translated as reflections. I watched 11 seasons of the program in one month; many episodes were focusing in our daily life and our effect on the planet. Since then I managed to get [...]
Natia Shakaia My today’s story is about world’s one of the most important issues, which is the tolerance. To be more concrete the nonexistence of the tolerance in the most cases. In my article I will try to tell you briefly what kind of attitude is there in different countries toward the people who is [...]
Salome Lemonjava “Physical abuse due to sexual identification, conditions of the injured transgender woman are still crucial. She is still on artificial respiration. Investigation has begun, although nobody has been detained” –says “Qronikanews”, TV channel “Imedi”. It’s been several days that Georgian media makes similar anouncements. Sexual identification is one of the most widely discussed [...]
Natia Shakaia Citizens make the future of the country. Many things depend on us, citizens. In my mind, every citizen can do something useful for the development of the country. It really doesn’t matter what sphere we work in, it is our duty to do everything we can to live in better conditions. Citizen’s participation [...]
From 19 to 21 October 2016 the Special Initiative “Local democracy in the two shores of the Mediterranean” of the LADDER Project MED Path has been successfully held in Tunis. The Special Initiative was organised by the Tunisian association Lam Echaml with the cooperation of COPPEM (the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership of Regional and Local Authorities) and [...]
The special initiative of the LADDER project on resilient sustainable development, organized in closed ranks with the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, EUSDR, a policy tool for better cohesion, enlargement and neighborhood policies of the EU with its partners in the Danube region, embracing more than 115 m people and 800.000km², is taking place [...]
As part of the LADDER project, Mateja Kvar from CAC – Croatian Association of Counties (Croatia) completed her job shadowing activity in Strasbourg, within ALDA office, and we gathered her feelings and achievements. *** The project "LADDER – Local Authorities as Drivers for Development Education and Raising awareness" aims to develop and increase the action [...]
