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Community development
Taking the fear out of local politics
Engaged citizens who want to serve their communities as local representatives often know little about how local government works. They want to use their vision and goodwill in local office but they a…
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Community development
RE.CO.VER:REbuilding by a COmmunity basEd appRoach
Can you imagine rebuilding a place heavily damaged by an earthquake without the involvement of its inhabitants? Certainly not! The project aims to bring citizens point of view into the rebuilding …
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Social inclusion
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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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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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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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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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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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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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…27 ideas found