Legislativity – Das Spiel zur EU-Gesetzgebung

LegislativityBrüssel ist der Ort, an dem die wichtigsten Entscheidungen der Europäischen Union (EU) getroffen werden. Hier werden Gesetze gemacht, die für alle Mitgliedstaaten verbindlich gelten.
Brüssel ist daher nicht nur bekannt für Pommes frites, Comics oder das Atomium: Es ist das Machtzentrum Europas.

Im Spiel „LEGISLATIVITY“ wetteifern unterschiedliche Vorstellungen und Interessen darum, EU-Gesetz zu werden und die dafür notwendigen Mehrheiten in Kommission, Ministerrat und Europäischem Parlament zu erhalten.
Auf dem langen Weg zur Gesetzesreife lauern Unwägbarkeiten aller Art für das Gesetz: Lobbyisten und Lobbyistinnen nehmen Einfluss, Mehrheiten können sich ändern, Zufälle und plötzliche Ereignisse entfalten ihre Wirkungen.

„LEGISLATIVITY“ ist ein Würfel- und Strategiespiel für

  • 2 bis 8 Spieler ab 14 Jahren,
  • zuhause mit Freunden, in der Familie oder den (außer)schulischen Unterricht,
  • Schulklassen oder noch größere Gruppen (zum Parallelspielen an mehreren Spielbrettern),
  • Spielefreaks (mit „Profi“-Variante),
  • für Personen mit oder ohne Vorkenntnisse

Die Spieldauer kann selbst bestimmt werden (empfohlen: 45 – 60 Minuten)

Das Spiel wurde vom Europa Zentrum Baden-Württemberg in der Seminarpraxis intensiv getestet. Die Realisierung wurde mit finanzieller Unterstützung durch den Sparkassenverband Baden-Württemberg sowie das Ministerium der Justiz und für Europa ermöglicht.

Weitere Informationen und Bestellung hier: www.europa-zentrum.de/legislativity

ERASMUS+ support for our working group “Active citizens in rural areas”

Our working group on Active citizens in rural areas successfully applied for an ERASMUS+ strategic partnership for the project “Rural European Association Development Innovation Team. READ IT – Active citizens in rural areas”
The project will run over a period of two years from September 2017 to August 2019.

Active citizens in rural areasThe project aims to help people in rural areas in the participating countries to work for development of rural areas as they are badly affected of the urbanisation. As many people are leaving those areas the ones who stay gets less and less included in the overall growth in society.
Young people leave those areas and most of the inhabitants are middle aged and older people. This development leads to a “bad circle” as the social inclusion between young and old decline all the time.

There is also a lack of social inclusion in terms of less public service, closing of schools and shops etc. With the project we like to enhance people in the rural areas to help themselves to get a better local development, to take initiative to entrepreneurship, local cultural activities and so on to get people to stay in the area instead of moving to big cities.

The inhabitants in the rural areas need even more creativity and civic engagement to keep them socially included and the project will aim to give them new tools for that.

Project partners are:

Public consultation on Promoting social inclusion and shared values through formal and non-formal learning

The online questionnaire will gauge public opinion on the importance of equipping young people with shared values and how education and non-formal learning can help achieve this aim in view of creating more socially cohesive societies.

The results of the public consultation will be used together with the other data and research evidence, as well as ET 2020 mutual learning outcomes (in particular the work undertaken by the ET 2020 Working Group on the follow-up of the Paris Declaration).

Deadline: 11 August 2017.

Public consultation on the European Citizens’ Initiative

European Citizens’ InitiativeThe European citizens’ initiative, foreseen in the Treaty on European Union, allows EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal.

To be considered by the Commission, an initiative must gather the support of at least one million EU citizens from at least seven member states. The Commission is holding an open public consultation on whether or not to make a legislative proposal, and explain the reasons for that choice.

This consultation intends to gather the views of citizens and stakeholders on the current Regulation. It focusses on the shortcomings that have been identified and on options for improving this Regulation.
Target groups are citizens and stakeholders, in particular: organisations such as civil society organisations promoting participatory democracy instruments and public authorities working around the European citizens’ initiative and/or having similar participatory democracy instruments in place.

Deadline is August 16th.

EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals

EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country NationalsAs part of the New Skills Agenda for Europe, the European Commission has developed a Skills Profile Tool to support early profiling of the skills of refugees, migrants and other third country nationals.

The EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals is intended for use by any services that may be offering assistance to third country nationals and should be used in an interview situation to get to know the individual, their skills, qualifications and experiences.
The focus of the tool is to help individuals produce a profile of their skills and to help an adviser identify any recommendations or next steps.

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