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 [...]
On 13 October 2016, the SDG Watch Europe was launched in Brussels! SDG Watch Europe is a new EU-level alliance of 75 CSOs from development, environment, social, human rights and other sectors. Its goal is to hold governments to account for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). **** ALDA and [...]
Intercultural Dialogue & refugees’ educational challenges The role of Local stakeholders and the challenges arising from the refugee flows in terms of education and inclusion were at the heart of the 2nd Forum on Intercultural dialogue, organized by the University of Patras on 7-8 October in Patra (GR). The Forum was attended by representatives from [...]
Within the LADDER project, the 10 Co-applicants – EGTC Amphictyony (Greece), LALRG – the Association of Local and Regional Authorities (Latvia), Donegal County Council (Ireland), TECLA – Associazione per la cooperazione transazionale, locale ed europea(Italy), URC Poland – Union of Rural Communes of the Republic of Poland (Poland), UTC Slovakia – Union of Towns and Cities of Slovakia (Slovakia), Birgu Local Council (Malta), NAMRB – National Association of Municipalities [...]
The “Regranting Scheme: grass root actions on development education” of Spain, Estonia, Netherlands, Romania, Germany, Croatia, Latvia, Denmark, Italy, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Greece & Ireland is now over! Thank you for your participation and congratulations to all for your inspiring ideas & proposals! A multiple team carefully analysed the submitted proposals and we are glad to announce that [...]
Halfway to the completion of the project, the new brochure of the project LADDER is being issued. LADDER is the project designed to reach citizens in the first place, aiming to raise their awareness and sensibility on global issues. This is why participation and interest at the local level are essential for reaching noticeable results. [...]
On 1-2 September a seminar dedicated to migration policy took place in Athens. Organized by the Civic School of Political Studies in Greece, Symbiosis and supported by ALDA and the LADDER project, it gathered multiple stakeholders to participate in a dialogue, assessing refugee reception efforts in Greece since 2015, when the arrivals surged dramatically. Two [...]
Are you willing or intending to develop and implement a grass root level project on development education, awareness raising and engagement for development? The re-granting scheme of the project LADDER is now open for 2016. Eligible countries I. Spain, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Netherlands, Romania, Luxembourg. For more information, see [...]
