Author Archives: Kavuklis

European Passport to Active Citizenship (EPTAC)

European Passport to Active CitizenshipIt’s our Europe! It’s our voice! But how to put this into practice?

The new EPTAC in 23 official languages facilitates public participation across the European Union, the world’s biggest transnational democracy, with its 28 member states, 500 regions and more than 100 000 municipalities.

Trying to change the education system? Having a problem with poisoned food products? Want to move the lorries from road to rail? Or having problems registering your company across the border? EU citizens have many rights and face hard choices – but they need to know what options they have to influence issues and in which arenas.

The new EPTAC published by the EESC offers “quick guides”, factsheets, background information, pathfinders and navigators to all aspects of modern European democracy, including a toolkit of participation resources and a detailed manual on the European Citizens Initiative (ECI).

European Passport to Active Citizenship

Call for projects: CALL4Europe

logo_call4europe_01In the year 2015, the Austrian not-for-profit association Respekt.net organizes a call for projects entitled “CALL4Europe” and invites interested European project initiators which work on current and future challenges of Europe to make use of crowdfunding opportunities on the platform www.respekt.net.

As additional incentive Respekt.net offers EUR 100,000 as “doubling donation” to a selection out of all submitted projects. The projects awarded with the “doubling donation” will be selected by a high-level jury. The “doubling donation” amounts up to 50% of the respective target budget. The project initiators have to collect the remaining 50% with means of crowdfunding at www.respekt.net in order to reach the full funding of their projects.

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World Education Forum adopts Declaration on the Future of Education

World Education ForumA transformative vision for ‪education‬ over the next 15 years was adopted at the World Education Forum on 21 May in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
The Incheon Declaration was welcomed by the global education community, including government ministers from more than 100 countries, non-governmental organisations and youth groups. It encourages countries to provide inclusive, equitable,‪ quality education‬ and ‪Lifelong learning‬ opportunities for all. The Declaration will underpin the education targets in the Sustainable Development Goals that will be ratified at the United Nations in September.

The Incheon Declaration

Congratulations to ME Yvelines and BBAG

Europe for Citizens 2014Congratulations to our members Maison de l’Europe des Yvelines and Berlin-Brandenburgische Auslandsgesellschaft (BBAG) for their successful applications within the Europe for Citizens programme Strand 2 Measure 2.2 – Networks of towns !

ME Yvelines will receive funding for their project “CitiPart – Cities’ Partnership against extremism and populism” and BBAG for “Together for a better netWORKing – Jugendarbeitslosigkeit versus Fachkräftemangel“

Both projects were chosen out of 164 applications. A total of 20 projects will be supported by the Europe for Citizens programme.

Democracy and Human Rights Start with Us – Charter for All

PosterCharter4all_EN“Democracy and Human Rights Start with Us – Charter for All” explains the Council of Europe Charter on Citizenship and Human Rights Education in a fun and friendly way.

This publication includes a brochure for children, guidelines for educators and a poster. An exhibition is also available entitled “Democracy and Human Rights start with Us” which highlights the key messages of the “Charter for All” and is available in many different languages.

Charter for All