Dorothea Iordanova To be part of the 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) on 18-19 October 2017, as well as the 4th Participation day (PD) on 17 October in Budapest were a great and fruitful experience. For anyone new to the topic I will introduce the Strategy and then focus on [...]
Anna Chepizhko The Danube Participation Day, that took place on 17-18th October in Budapest (Hungary), is the unique networking and experience exchanging platform, that already for the fourth time was organized by the civil society actors from Danube Region. NGOs from diverse social spheres, politician of different levels, educational centers, students and other engaged actors are brought [...]
Ádám Zágoni-Bogsch The 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and the 4th Danube Participation Day Workshops offered a great opportunity to all participants to broaden their horizons regarding many topics from good governance to ideas of improving the situation of the roma minority. Furthermore, it made possible to meet dozens of representatives [...]
Iryna Gumenchuk The 4th Participation Day (PD) within the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) was held on 17-18th October in Budapest under the headline “Science meets Participation”. The main goal of the Participation Days is to bring together civil society actors, local, regional, national state representatives and other stakeholders from the European institutions in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Andreas Canvin Being the Secretary General of the largest human rights organization in the world, Amnesty International's Salil Shetty knows a thing or two about the current state of human rights on a global scale. I/Danish CJ Andreas (Canvin) spoke to Salil at Amnesty International Council Meeting 2017 in Rome this month. The theme [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]