The SDGs workshops have started! In line with the cascade and capacity building pursued by the LADDER project, several SDG workshops are being held. These workshops follow up on topics related to SDGs, awareness raising and empowerment of local stakeholders. LADDER partner, Donegal County Council implemented the first workshop. The workshop was held [...]
“Our actions at the local level have an impact at the global level”: this is the motto of the LADDER’s video, realised by Progettarte. The video shows in few minutes the results of the re-granting scheme action of the three-year project LADDER – coordinated by ALDA. The video focuses on some of the [...]
Muriel Wagner Chances are, that if you are born in one of the many Roma settlements in Central Eastern Europe, you will not be able to break out of the vicious circle of poverty. With a low level of education or no secondary school qualification, it will be hard to find a job, health issues [...]
From 25 to 27 September 2017, the Young European Federalists (JEF) organised the LADDER‘s Special Initiative "Youth for Sustainable Europe" in Brussels, to discuss the links between Sustainable Development Goals and youth. The initiative consisted of a series of panels and workshops. In the first panel discussion Dejan Bojanic (European Youth Forum), Noora Löfström (Finnish Youth [...]
The 25th September 2017 was the 2nd anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ALDA and the LADDER project congratulated but also reflected on the tasks that still lie ahead of us! More than 880 actions involving over 500 organisations in 109 countries took place on this day, in order to support the implementation of [...]
Włodzimierz Lapis There is an idiomatic phrase in the Polish language: "to wake up with a hand in the potty", which means "to find out too late that you made a mistake, when you no longer can change it". In Poland we also say: "The Poles wise after damage", which means "we can properly [...]
Muriel Wagner Largely ignored by western media, the Ukrainian Parlament has just adopted a new education law heavily affecting the use of minority languages in higher education. Their minorities directly being affected, Romania and Hungary have expressed their concerns – where are all the other voices calling in European values, taking a stand for linguistic [...]
Assist Social Capital CIC and Insights US have been supported by the LADDER Project to implement a project aimed at generating action-led advice from citizens, in order to support sustainable economic development within UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. The project is based on inclusive decision-making via an online platform and will focus on how communities, businesses and social enterprises [...]
Dragos Cuta During a recent problem analysis of the rural areas it was determined that the rural area from CEE countries is depopulating rapidly because youngsters are emigrating in order to find good quality and sustainable jobs. Meanwhile retired people who own or inherited a house in a rural area often prefer to live with [...]
Lilyana Savova Developing technology, raising the living standards of the population in Europe and the world inevitably leads to increased use of goods, food, clothing, furnishings, transport, construction, etc. Concentration of the population in large cities also leads to a concentration of consumption of products and services, which is also a prerequisite for higher transport [...]
