Active Cities for EU promotes local decision making through public consultations, to strengthen citizens’ active involvement in European political life. The project focuses on women as tackling gender inequality in the EU will contribute to the protection and further promotion of the EU citizenship.
Active Cities for EU aims to
- understand the reasons behind the different levels of participation in active citizenship activities in different countries
- identify, share and discuss best practices, methodologies and tools,
- simplify the identified methodologies and tools and disseminate them in other EU Member States
- train municipal personnel in the use of the simplified methodologies and tools to increase citizens’ participation
- support local authorities in planning and implementing public consultations to involve citizens in policymaking
The target audiences of the project are local and regional authorities at country level, but also local authorities outside the partners’ countries. Women and young people are also a special focus of this project as according to all data they are underrepresented in public consultations and in some cases they are also lacking interest to participate. Journalists and European institutions, associations and networks will be also targeted as multipliers towards policymakers and the general public.
Through online and on site events, online trainings, publications, press releases and social media promotion the project will increase awareness for the importance of gender balanced, inclusive public consultations among policymakers and the general public. An online interactive application will help local authorities to design them.
In total, more than 2.500 people will be directly contacted by the project. Another 15.000 will be approached via social media ads and press releases. Indirectly (through social media, press coverage, partners’ communication channels and other multipliers) more than 100.000 people will be reached.
The activities foreseen for the project are the following:
- Opening event – Kallithea – min 76 participants from 4-6 countries (travel needed for partners)
- Closing event – Brussels (organised by Slovenia) min 51 partners from 13 countries (travel needed or representation)
- online training GR – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online training SI – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online training HU – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online training RO – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online training ES – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online event GR – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online event SI – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
- online event ES – 25 participants (onsite participation for all partners)
The budget is 30.000 per partner and 56.000 for Kallithea (LP) to anticipate the costs of management and dissemination.