Idea Challenge 2020
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Democracy and participation | Migration
PEACEBUILDERS of LESVOS
PEACEBUILDERS is a hands-on peacebuilding program, where multicultural, cross-generational and gender-inclusive local and refugee children, unaccompanied minors and youth, co-create actions, policies…
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Democracy and participation | Environment and sustainability
Islands of Hope
Small islands are renowned sources of natural richness and cultural diversity. Yet their fate is often decided in urban political centres, while community voices, untrained in structured dialogue, ar…
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Democracy and participation | Community development
Sicilian Democracy Funds: let’s spend the unspent!
From 2016, according to a regional law, every year Sicilian municipalities must implement participatory democracy projects. Available resources are about 5 millions euro per year. About half is unspe…
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Community development | Social inclusion
Weaving collective narratives
Through a 3 step Methodology (Sensing - Convening - Acting), we aim at relieving the conflict between patriarchy domination and societal inclusivity in a remote village of Crete with a strong cultura…
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Democracy and participation | Civic education
Increasing Roma participation in policy making
There is no debate about how discriminated against is the Roma community in Romania. Even though there are Roma representatives in the Parliament, they are not connected to the community and the Roma…
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Democracy and participation | Civic education
Pre-election Civic Lobbying Accelerator
Peripheral regions exhibit the lowest voter turn-out (40 % in Karlovarský and Ústecký in 2017 general election). Citizens there often distrust parliamentary democracy and feel overlooked by politicia…
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Democracy and participation | Civic education
Citizens’ Jury as new model for Direct Democracy
We aim to involve DIRECTLY the citizens in the decision-making level and to give a chance for EVERY woman and man to be heard. We shall give a chance for all, including those who feel excluded, beca…
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Democracy and participation | Environment and sustainability
ACT NOW-Active citizens for sustainable community
Climate crisis is affecting many Europeans. Although the Europe's energy market is undergoing a transition towards a decentralized model based on renewable energy, such process is not present in Croa…
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Democracy and participation | Social inclusion
INITIATIVE 4ALL - Disabled for inclusive Life
INITIATIVE 4ALL - Disabled for inclusive Life will raise awareness, empower disabled (physically handicapped; deaf and hard of hearing; blind and visually impaired) to advocate their rights in local …
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Democracy and participation | Civic education
Quarteira Decides
3 neighbourhoods characterized by ethnic diversity, stigmatization, social conflicts, political polarization and distance from centres of power, will decide and implement the projects they consider m…
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Urban and rural development | Environment and sustainability
Local Food 4 Local Economy
Tired of watching the global food supply chains dictate what to eat and aware of the huge impact that food and transportation have on Portugal's ecological footprint, a non governmental organization …
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Social inclusion | Migration
One for All, All for One
“One for All, All for One” is a mentoring project for five people/groups of two who work locally in small cities in Poland supporting migrants. During nine-month project we will support five local co…
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Democracy and participation | Social inclusion
Roma Voice 2021
We aim to make sure Roma voices are heard in the upcoming parliamentary election in 2021. The initiative will strive to ensure political committment towards the Roma community on behalf of people fro…
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Democracy and participation | Arts and cultural activities
TABLE THEATRE - BY LOCALS FOR LOCALS
Main objective is to build bridges between polarized political stands, unrelated social groups, opposing views and belief systems through means of art and theatre. Residents of different ages, social…
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Community development | Social inclusion
A different Bag
Tension, discrimination, intolerance. These words describe the relationship between a Roma settlement and the non-Roma neighborhood in an average Hungarian village. But Bag is different: Bag wants t…
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Democracy and participation | Social inclusion
Regional Center for Deinstitutionalization
In Museum of Madness we share the story about Slovenia being one of the most institutionalised countries in the world. We aim to raise awareness on the right of people with disabilities to live indep…
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Democracy and participation | Social inclusion
Roma women are Feminists!
The impoverished port city of Cartagena in south Spain is challenged by a great risk of polarization, as the far right party gets immense political power. Our city needs empowered social leaders to d…
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Community development | Environment and sustainability
Innovation for SCaling up Rural ENterprise-ISCREN
Social enterprise is one of the foundations of democracy and civil society. Social enterprise is particularly underdeveloped in Bulgarian rural areas, where determined and self-directed social entrep…
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Community development | Migration
Everybody Needs SomeBuddy
Our goal is to empower migrants to become an engaged part of the civil society and to create a safe space where migrants and locals can meet each other, gain better mutual understanding, improve inte…
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Democracy and participation | Civic education
