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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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
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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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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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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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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Urban and rural development | Social inclusion
Miskolc shall be a place for everyone!
Miskolc city has a large Roma population, about 30 000 Roma (definite data is not available). About 70% live in segregated, peripheral districts; around one-third of them are not registered residents…
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Democracy and participation | Community development
Banská Bystrica - women friendly city
Even in the 21st century, women experience discrimination in Slovakia, as the results of the survey done in 2019 showed. We will support women from various social groups to develop and strengthen th…
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Civic education | Community development
Trailblazers: Local LGBT+ Activists and Allies
Our vision is Poland where LGBT+ people can feel fully at home in every community. At last. Meanwhile, in the last months, 80 Polish local governments declared to be “LGBT free zones.” We are bringin…
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Democracy and participation | Social inclusion
Organizing for power
If activism rose lately, this only happens for the middle-class citizens in the big cities, whose basic needs are already met, while people experiencing poverty or lack of access to basic services, a…
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Community development | Urban and rural development
The Social Herbal Garden
We want to create a community-based garden which supports excluded youngsters & elderly gardeners from rural areas. Our idea creates safe space for work, growth and learning and possibility for inter…
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Democracy and participation | Urban and rural development
Generation Bridge
The seniors and youths separated by modern world developments get together to bridge their competences one to another. The youths teach how the seniors to use digital devices and seniors teach the yo…
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Social inclusion | Migration
From eartH to Heart
A new paradigm of inclusion of young migrants through agri-culture! Migrants create their own educational project based on agriculture, sharing agricultural skills with the community and spreading th…
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Democracy and participation | Community development
HumanBodyText
In the HBT project we are creating a well-equipped community studio for young vloggers, podcasters, bloggers with 24/7 access. We help participants become familiar with the responsibility and techniq…
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Democracy and participation | Community development
