| Summary of the project: | Partners:\\r\\nAt least 4 partner organizations from participating countries according to the following distribution:\\r\\n- 1 partner from Denmark, Finland or Sweden;\\r\\n- 1 partner from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the\\r\\nNetherlands, Slovenia or the United Kingdom;\\r\\n- 1 partner from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,\\r\\nLithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania or Slovakia;\\r\\n- 1 partner from Albania, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta or Spain.\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\nParticipants:\\r\\nNo age limit\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\nSummary:\\r\\nThe project \\\\\\\"Active Democracy: Citizens and Society United\\\\\\\" will discuss the future of the European Union and its basic values and foster active european citizenship through civic and democratic participation. In this project we will collect the opinion of european citizens, explore new methodologies of promoting active interaction and create mechanisms to develop civic competences. We\\\\\\\'ll involve a minimum of 5 countries and 200 participants, this porject will start on December 2012 and will go on until December 2013.\\r\\nIn order to achieve the proposed goals, ACV plans:\\r\\na) A Preparatory Meeting where we will all present, discuss and assess proposals related to main themes of this project (european citizenship, participatory and representative democracy, amongst others);\\r\\nb) A Local Informational Session will be developed in all participating countries where local people will get to know better the democratic and political process through presentations and political debates, among others;\\r\\nc) Democratic Congress where the european citizens / participants will experience how the representative system works and as a result a document will be produced in order to present to the policy makers at a European level;\\r\\n\\r\\nOnce all relevant information is gathered, the partners will determine a way to combine and disseminate all knowledge, hoping that this information is useful and may contribute to make European citizens\\\\\\\' more active and more conscient about civic participation.\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\nHow to apply to be a partner:\\r\\nSend us an email with...\\r\\n- The Partner Identification Form (in attachment);\\r\\n- The Expression of interest - EFC form (in attachment). |
