Презентација на тема Europe For Citizens од Srdjan Cvijic на одржаната Тркалезна Маса од страна на Метаморфозис, на 07.07.2009

1. Strasbourg
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Strasbourg
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The programme
EUROPE FOR CITIZENS
Skopje, 7/7/2009
Srdjan Cvijic
Policy Officer
ALDA

2. Strasbourg General Objectives
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31/07/07 • To give citizens the opportunity to interact and
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participate in constructing an ever closer
Europe, which is democratic and world-oriented,
united in and enriched through its cultural diversity,
thus developing citizenship of the European Union;
• To develop a sense of European identity, based
on common values, history and culture;
• To foster a sense of ownership of the European
Union among its citizens;
• To enhance tolerance and mutual
understanding between European citizens
respecting and promoting cultural and linguistic
diversity, while contributing to intercultural dialogue.

3. Specific Objectives
Strasbourg • To bring together people from local communities across
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Europe to share and exchange experiences, opinions and
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• To foster action, debate and reflection related to
European citizenship and democracy, shared values,
common history and culture through cooperation within civil
society organisations at European level;
• To bring Europe closer to its citizens by promoting
European values and achievements, while preserving the
memory of its past;
• To encourage interaction between citizens and civil
society organisations from all participating countries,
contributing to intercultural dialogue and bringing to the fore
both Europe’s diversity and unity, with particular attention to
activities aimed at developing closer ties between citizens
from Member States of the European Union as constituted
on 30 April 2004 and those from Member States which
have acceded since that date.

4. Priority themes of the Europe for Citizens Programme:
Strasbourg Permanent themes and their annual focus
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31/07/07 Future of the European Union and its basic values
05/06/07 New Institutional Developments
Celebration of 9 May, Day of Europe
Active European Citizenship: participation and
democracy in Europe
Women participation in political life
Intercultural dialogue
The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008
People’s wellbeing in Europe: employment, social
cohesion and sustainable development
Sport for active citizenship and social inclusion
Impact of the European policies in society
The European Year of creativity and innovation 2009

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31/07/07 ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP PRIORITIES FOR 2009
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Future of the European Union and
its basic values
-9th May
-Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Wall
Active European Citizenship:
participation and democracy in
Europe
-EP elections and institutional
developments
-Women participation in political life

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Strasbourg ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP PRIORITIES FOR 2009
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Inter-cultural dialogue
- Integration of intercultural dialogue:
methodological aspects
People’s well-being in Europe:
employment, social cohesion and
sust. development
- Citizens' engagement with the big social
issues which constitute the European
Union's political priorities, such as
climate change and energy
- Sport for active citizenship and social
inclusion

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31/07/07 ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP PRIORITIES FOR 2009
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Impact of EU policies in societies
- The challenges of immigration
- The European Year of Creativity and
Innovation 2009

8. Strasbourg
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31/07/07 ALDA PROPOSALS FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP :
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- Very local activities to implement European
Active Citizenship “out of Brussels”
- We propose to adopt it as a methods in the
decision making at the local level
- To focus on the topics in the enlargment process
- To evaluate the impact on the medium term

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31/07/07 ALDA PROPOSALS FOR PRIORITIES IN 2010 IN
05/06/07 THE FIELD OF ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP:
Active citizenship and enlargement
European “Listening” process

10. Strasbourg
Strasbourg Horizontal features of the "Europe for
31/07/07 citizens" programme
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- European values
- Informal learning for active European citizenship
- Volunteering - expression of active European
citizenship
- Transnationality and local dimension
- Cultural and linguistic diversity
- Cross-fertilization
- Equal access to the program

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Strasbourg Actions and Measures
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Action 1 - Active citizens for Europe
Measure 1. Town-Twinning
• 1.1. Town-twinning citizens’ meetings
• 1.2. Thematic networking of twinned towns
Multiannual projects for network of twinned
towns
Measure 2. Citizens’ projects and support
measures
• 2.1. Citizens’ projects
• 2.2. Support measures

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Strasbourg Actions and measures
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Action 2 - Active civil society in Europe
• Measure 1. Structural support for European
policy research organizations (think-tanks)
• Measure 2. Structural support for civil society
organizations at the European level
• Measure 3. Support for projects initiated by civil
society organizations.

13. Strasbourg
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Action 3 - Together for Europe
• High visibility events
• Studies
• Information and dissemination tools
Action 4 - Active European Remembrance

14. Strasbourg
Strasbourg Available Funds
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Planning Period 2007- 2013
215 million Euro
• Action 1: at least 45%
• Action 2: approximately 31%
• Action 3: approximately 10%
• Action 4: approximately 4%

15. Strasbourg
Strasbourg Direct beneficiaries
31/07/07
05/06/07 • local authorities and organisations
• European public policy research organisations
(think-tanks)
• citizens’ groups
• civil society organisations
• non-governmental organisations
• trade unions
• educational institutions
• organisations active in the field of voluntary work
• organisations active in the field of amateur sport,
etc.

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Strasbourg Beneficiary countries
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• Member States
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United
Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Hungary
• Croatia, Albania, Macedonia

17. Strasbourg
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31/07/07 Potential participating countries (and
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The list below indicates the countries that have
not yet joined the program but that potentially
could participate in the near future.
Participating countries of the European Free
Trade Association (EFTA), members of the
European Economic Area (EEA): Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway
EU candidate countries: Turkey, Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo (under
resolution 1244)

18. Strasbourg Active citizenship
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31/07/07 Current and past projects:
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• Participation of Civil Society as an added
value of the European Union (conference,
research and debate), 2004, Event in
Barcelona
• The development of the European Union
Constitution as for the Active Citizenship,
Event in Kaunas. 2005
• The impact of European Union on local
policies dealing with citizens participation,
2006

19. Strasbourg Active citizenship
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31/07/07 Current and past projects:
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• Cities for peace and democracy in Europe
2006
• EURaction – citizens acting for Europe
2006-2007
• Europe in Dialogue with its Citizens -
Active Citizenship Project 2007
• Pilot training proposal for European Active
Citizenship (10 activities planned in Europe),
2008

20. Strasbourg Active citizenship
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31/07/07 Current and past projects:
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• Active Citizenship support for twinning
activities, 2007/2008
• Training activities and support programme
on active Citizenship in Western Balkans
• Support measures, Training for Twinning
Officer in the enlarged Europe
• Follow up Citizens’ panel (to be confirmed)

21. Strasbourg
Pilot training proposal
21/11/2008
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in Europe
It is both :
- a natural step after all the EC projects on
European active citizenship developed and
implemented
- a way to transfer its knowledge based on its
experience gained through a decade of field-
work

22. General information about the Call for
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Strasbourg Partners:
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05/06/07 - project to begin by the end of October/ beginning
of November 2008
- to last between 6 and 12 months
- cofunded by ALDA (maximum 50%/ 5000 euros)
- eligibility criteria : local authorities and nonprofit
making organisations, members of ALDA
- award criteria : quantitative (number of partners
involved, participants, cofund capacities...) and
qualitative (originality, capacity to reach unusual
public,...)

23. 7 Modules in the EU
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31/07/07 - 1 in Spain
05/06/07 - 3 in Italy
- 2 in Lithuania
- 1 in Bulgaria
1 module in Croatia
3 modules outside the EU
- 1 in Albania
- 1 in Macedonia
- 1 in Azerbaijan
= various projects, different focuses and
budgets

24. Strasbourg
Strasbourg Website
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http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/index_en.htm

25. Strasbourg
Strasbourg Visit ALDA website for further information
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05/06/07 http://alda-europe.eu
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