Maya Vargek Walking through the city a month ago, I saw a young woman with a small child on the street begging for money... people were turning their heads, even somebody said some nasty comment there. I stand there for a few minutes and look ... I felt sad because no one has approached [...]
The results for the “Regranting Scheme: grass root action in development education and awareness raising” of the 2017 call are finally here! The call of 2017 supported several projects implemented in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and United Kingdom. The winning [...]
From March to May 2017, seven new peer-to-peer exchanges have been carried out. Once more these productive encounters resulted to have excellent outcomes, increasing the exchange of experiences and sharing good practices among the consortium. The Job Shadowings took place in Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Malta, Ireland and Mallorca! Host: Sonja Afanasjeva, Young European Federalists [...]
Julie Capelle On May 10, 11 and 12 2017, about 160 international stakeholders working on the strengthening of local democracy from all over the world gathered in Torun, Poland for the ‘’Ladder Tool Fair’’. Organized by ALDA in the framework of the LADDER project, the event aimed – as its name indicates – to [...]
Rosa Uliassi «My dissertation is born to a beautiful fairy tale: that of a little girl who grows up and learns from a grandfather how to draw the sea waves or how to raise a life, starting with a tomato plant» Today we are speaking a lot about the question of inclusion: religious, cultural, ethnic, [...]
Giovanni Marco Scavelli The recent Citizen Participation University in Hungary, has been an ideal place where community, civic and professionals from 15 countries, took an active role in solidarity with the Hungarian civil society. It has been a 5 days of intensive learning and community building where resistance has been embraced as a common effort [...]
The LADDER International workshop on Public-Private Cooperation (PPC) and Sustainability took place in Cagliari from 12 to 14 July 2017. Co-organized by the European Movement in Italy (CIME - coordinator of the PPC Thematic Path) and by the Sardinia Region, the workshop’s main objective was to revise the properties of the tourism industry with regards [...]
ALDA together with many members of its network and of the consortium of the project LADDER, participated in the 5th edition of the Assises of Decentralized Cooperation for Development, organized by the European Commission and Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 10-11 July. === On the first day ALDA’s Secretary General, Antonella Valmorbida, [...]
Rosa Uliassi It has just ended one of my favourite summer initiatives, which has been fighting discrimination and xenophobia for more than twenty years: “I Mondiali Antirazzisti” (Anti-Racism World Cup). This international sport event for racial inclusion, organized by UISP (Italian Union Sport for everyone), takes place every year in the small town of Castelfranco [...]
Karoline Bredmose Thomsen The SDGs, sustainable development goals, are the UN's attempt to set an agenda and an outline for how to create a better world. A sustainable environment. Active citizens. Happy people who believe in the future for their children. All of this is admirable, but what do the 17 goals actually mean to [...]
