European integration appears sometimes technocratic, in the hands of distant institutions, which are asked to manage macroeconomic policies which benefits are not always immediately clear to the general public.

The guide is a concrete tool to empower educators and learners over Europe to have their say in their future. EUCIS-LLL strongly believes in civil dialogue and in the importance of civil society in contributing to shape the future of learning in Europe. Advocating for education, training and lifelong learning requires understanding how policy decisions are shaped.
The specificities of our sector explain the need for a specialised guide book on advocating European institutions because the schemes of decision in this area are different from others and because this is an opportunity for civil society to contribute actively to improve European standards.

The 2015 version will be regularly updated for stakeholders to constantly stay in touch with each other.

Guidebook to EU Decision-Making in Education and Training

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In response to the open consultation on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), ECAS has formulated recommendations aimed at creating an enabling framework for Civil Society Organizations engagement.
The purpose of this publication is to explore complementary methods to existing forms of interaction between citizens and policy-makers at EU level which foster co-decision processes using the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies.

Through crowdsourcing it is possible to go beyond national borders and engage a wider audience real-time online. This publication describes the use of crowdsourcing for policy-making in Iceland, Finland and Paris as non-exclusive examples, which show the added value of co-legislating with citizens in terms of process (wisdom of the crowd) and outcomes (increased legitimacy in the adopted policy).