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The Mind Inclusion project wishes to help intellectually disabled persons to have access to public spaces and exercise their rights. While project partners strongly believe that a more inclusive society is possible, it is a fact that, currently, public places such as bars, libraries, parks, and shops are not always designed for people with disabilities.

Based on the common conviction that everyone should be free and comfortable in the places they frequent, hence, there was born the Mind Inclusion application: a practical, useful, simple, easy-to-use tool that helps people with both cognitive and physical disabilities find and reach different spots in a city; as well as give them an understanding of the offer of those places, from services to opening hours, exact location, how to reach it and what the neighbourhood is like. In other words, the Mind Inclusion app wishes to help its users know more about a place in just a few clicks, for everyone to enjoy a better social life in an inclusive environment!

The app, indeed, wants not only to improve the inclusion in society of people with disabilities, but also to connect with managers of public places and make them more aware of the theme of social inclusion. In a time like this, spreading the seed of solidarity and attention to the other is more important than ever.

  • If you are the manager of a public space and you are interested in becoming part of this great initiative, watch this video.
  • If you want to use the app, download it from the Google Play store in English, Lithuanian, Spanish or Italian (soon in French as well).

What are you waiting for? Create your Mind Inclusion app account!

Started in November 2018, the Mind Inclusion 2.0 project aims to find sustainable and inclusive solutions that help caregivers improve their skills, on one hand, and allow disabled individuals to participate in social life on the other hand – with the goal to help people with disabilities overcome obstacles, thanks to technology, when accessing public places. Funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission, the project consortium gathers lead partner Margherita: Società Cooperativa Onlus (Italy) together with Polibienestar Research Institute, INTRAS Foundation (Spain), Social IT Software & Consulting Srl (Italy), Lietuvos sutrikusio intelekto zmoniu globos bendrija «Viltis» (Lithuania) and ALDA.

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BRIGHT’s Community of Interest is coming together. Three European actors have joined the community so far – there are still two spots available!
With its Community of Interest, BRIGHT is creating a wide network of local stakeholders across Europe for the protection of the rights of women seasonal workers employed in agriculture in the hosting communities. The members of the Community will have the chance to participate in the most interesting activities organized by the project partners, such as technical and awareness-raising webinars and capacity building training.


–> Want to join us?

To join the BRIGHT Community of Interest it is necessary to share the project goals and mission by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.The participation is free of charge. For more information: martina@aldaintranet.org


COMMUNITY MEMBERS: LET’S INTRODUCE THEM!

URBAN2020, Romania

URBAN2020 is a Bucharest-based NGO which stands up for the improvement of the citizens’ qualityof life in Romania and across Europe, by supporting good governance and promoting sustainability and equity in partnershipcreation between public, academic and private sectors. URBAN2020 strives to reduce the gaps between Romania andWestern Europe and between rural and urban dimensions by fostering the development through urban planning andarchitectural services. It also encourages the active participation of citizens and youth in decision-making, city life and theredevelopment of urban spaces and the integration of disadvantaged groups through training and educational services. Theinvolvement in the BRIGHT project represents a new challenge, an opportunity to expand its action’s range to cover anincreasingly topical social problem and try to find a connection with urban and territorial politics and strategies that can helpbetter understand the phenomena and develop the right policy toolkit to face it. URBAN2020 expertise may prove useful forthe elaboration of innovative strategies for the creation of local-based partnerships between citizens, private entities andmunicipalities to promote community-based initiatives in the Romanian cities most affected by the phenomenon and raiseawareness on it. (http://urban2020.org/) 

IPRES, Italy

The Apulian Institute of Economic and Social Research (IPRES) was founded in 1968 as anAssociation between public bodies, expression of the local and functional Autonomies’ system of the Puglia region. In July2018, IPRES was transformed into Foundation: the Puglia Region, the Municipalities of Bari, Taranto and Brindisi, theUniversity of Bari, the Chamber of Commerce of Bari and ISPE Association are members of IPRES. The Institute mission,firstly, aims at supporting the designing, adoption, implementation and evaluation of regional development policies and themultilevel institutional relationships. The Puglia Region is involved in promoting participatory governance systems, under theregional law n. 28/2017. As a technical body, supporting the formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of theregional policies, IPRES Foundation is strictly concerned in training to support participatory processes and in recognition ofbest practices on participation methods. (https://www.ipres.it/it/) 

Bolyarovo Municipality, Bulgaria

Bolyarovo Municipality is situated in Southeastern Bulgaria, Yambol District. The municipality consists of 20 settlements, of which one city – the municipal center of Bolyarovo and 19 villages. The goals of Bolyarovo Municipality are to develop the conditions for economic development, to improve the quality of life, healthcare, educational, and social services, to improve the quality of administrative services and to create conditions for improvement of the climate.

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On September 3rd and 4th, 2020, ALDA Secretary General Antonella Valmorbida was honoured to participate to the Annual Federalist Training Seminar of the Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies in Ventotene (Italy), together with the European Federalist Movement Italy and Europe. While she was an observer on the first day, she took the floor at the seminar on “European Solidarity vs Nationalism: towards political union” on the second day.
“Federalism in Europe and in the world. From the Monetary Union to the United States of Europe” was the title of this 39th edition of the event on the island where the Manifesto that inspired European Unity was written. Mrs Valmorbida’s intervention focused on solidarity being at the very heart of the European project and needing to be given priority not just in Covid-19 times or more generally in times of emergency, but rather as a matter of habit and constance.
“It is a question of individual wellbeing within a wider context“, she reminded; “institutional and political work must go hand in hand with a sense of citizenship, of culture and of common destiny and identity“. She proceeded to detail how the European project should be interpreted at the local level, too, and brought closer to citizens’ common sense, which can be distant from the great political dynamics but still very important. Such common sense of destiny, in fact, should be based on a series of micro-actions that, together, become macro: “ALDA works on a citizen dimension, of diffusion and information. Promoting citizenship, involvement, an idea of collective home through concrete practices: this is what we do together with local entities, municipalities and communities that share the same values“.

Of course, finding unanimity on complex topics is never easy when you involve masses of people, but after all “a citizen who’s active in their community is a citizen who’s active in the growth of Europe“. So on we go, with the strong belief that it is in the intimacy of local communities that each citizen’s vote is elaborated.

Read more on the event on the Spinelli Institute’s website.

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For many of us, the summer 2020 will be remembered as a summer like no other in recent history. Despite the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, luckily the implementation of projects’ activities didn’t stop.

Therefore, the association DRPDNM from Novo Mesto, Slovenia, organized safe outdoors events involving local youth, all within the framework of the project IMPACT. Together with the local partner Association for development of creative movement ‘Arabeska’, several workshops were held, which saw the participation of immigrants and children. The activity had an overall positive impact on the community, since being together help boosting the self-esteem and provide a sense of meaning. The youngsters were able to express their passion for art and to develop their artistic competencies, as also confirmed by Klara Magič Luneai, who joined the workshops: “Artistic expression in this way infuses self-confidence and is available as creative expression which has a positive impact on self-esteem.’’

The workshops took place on different locations and most of the activities were performed through the technique of improvisation, which was taught to children, thus enabling them to freely express feelings and emotions. A similar activity was organised during last year’s training in Italy, but as a matter of fact, working with children can give better results as they generally are more keen on building trust and connection within a given group of people.

Further workshop session will be prepared and implement during the autumn 2020… stay tuned!

This activity was organised as part of the IMPACT project – Inclusion Matters! using Performing Arts towards Cohesion and Tolerance, co-funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Programme.

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We receive and publish from Afaf Zaddem, delegate of the LDA Tunisia:

“Agriculture is unquestionably one of the pillars of the Tunisian economy, public policies have continued to aim at improving agricultural profitability without thinking of integrating in their visions and action plans solutions oriented towards improving the working conditions of people working in this sector and mainly women agricultural workers.

In fact, the agricultural workforce is mainly composed of women, more than 70% of whom work mostly as casual workers. Female labor force is poorly valued, poorly remunerated and remains in the informal circuit without a work contract, without social security coverage, without dignified and secure transportation, without the possibility of unionization and far from decent work conditions. 73.5% of female agricultural workers are not insured against occupational hazards. Only 33.3% of rural women working in this sector have social security coverage. By way of comparison, only 93,500 female agricultural workers have social security coverage compared to 377,000 agricultural workers.

Rural women are very vulnerable. 32% of them are illiterate and only 19.3% have economic resources of their own. In fact, they face cultural, social and economic constraints that limit their access to the labor market and to dignified and well-paid jobs. The majority of economically active rural women remain excluded from the social protection system, despite their massive participation in the development of strategic economic sectors such as agriculture. In the absence of collective agreements governing the agricultural sector, and in the absence of adaptation of the legislation in force regarding social security for occasional agricultural workers, they find themselves without any social protection.

Of the 10727 social security contributors declared under the agricultural workers’ scheme, only 1148 (10.7%) are women. Many women, school dropouts and others who have passed the legal retirement age are forced to work in harsh, indecent and uncontrolled conditions to support themselves without any social protection, which exposes them to the dangers of unprotected handling of pesticides and other chemicals used, as well as to poor hygiene and transport conditions, and to the volume of work per hour.

Occupational accidents suffered by rural women are frequent but are not covered by the current insurance system. This system remains unsuited to the specificities of this female agricultural labor force.

Unequal access to social benefits and services and the lack of public and private support for family obligations and responsibilities are an obstacle to their participation in the formal labor market. As a result, they remain excluded from many development programs.

Major deficits in knowledge, monitoring and evaluation of the economic and social situation of rural women, particularly in the agricultural sector, remain and require multi-stakeholder and integrated intervention by the various parties concerned.

For all these reasons, the Agency for Local Democracy ADL, Kairouan TUNISIA launched on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), a field study on the situation of “Working Women in the Agricultural Sector: Pillar of Development despite the lack of an appropriate legal status”. For this reason, it adopted the cause of rural women to mobilize and motivate civil society, institutions, local and national partners to develop a legal status that protects them and guarantees their rights.

This initiative is in line with SDG 5 and in the continuity of the EU-sponsored PARFAIT project, launched by the ALDA Lead Partner Association in partnership with EPD, the Women’s Coalition and LDA Tunisia, and targeted five governorates in Tunisia; the project aimed to promote women’s participation in local public life in Tunisia, and to raise their awareness of the fact that civil and political rights go hand in hand with economic and social rights.

Through a questionnaire that reached 600 women workers and 300 farmers in 10 delegations in the three regions (Kairouan, Mahdia and Sidi Bouzid), LDA undertook to make this careful diagnosis of the situation of women and to determine the extent of the violation suffered in order to find adequate solutions whose aim is to change the living conditions of women and enable them to participate fully in local governance.

The presence of LDA Tunisia in urban and rural social environments allows it to deepen its studies by being in direct contact with citizens at all social, cultural, economic and political levels … and also helps to raise awareness among local officials, including municipal councils to give priority to the cause of rural women which is part of Human Rights – including the principle of non-discrimination – the fight and prevention of poverty.

Since the appearance of the code of local authorities, local governance has expanded its territory following the merging of marginalized rural areas into municipal districts created in several governorates known by the density of their inhabitants such as SIDI BOUZID, KAIROUAN … where rural women working in the agricultural sector requires the attention of the municipal council. The latter should find her, as a citizen and member of society, concrete and profitable solutions to remedy the precarious situation.

On the occasion of the National Day of Tunisian Women, LDA Tunisia organized a regional symposium to present the results of the study, and invited members of municipal councils in the region, administrative executives, components of local civil society and representatives of national organizations, who actively interacted with the salient findings of the study presented by the expert Mr. Radwan El-Fatnasy.

The first delegate Mr. Abdel-Fattah Al-Taghouti on behalf of Mr. Wali de Kairouan delivered the opening speech in which he expressed the importance of interaction and engagement between the different parties at the local level in order to design practical mechanisms and local initiatives. He also stressed the value of local participatory work that could be initiated by ADL Tunisia as a local energizer, as well as the need for a legislative initiative resulting from a political will to change this reality. He also expressed his willingness to follow and support.

On the program, Professor Al-Nasser Al-Aqrabawi, mayor of Ain Al-Bayda, gave a speech on “Women and Local Authority, the rural woman as a model”. He said that 500,000 working in the agricultural sector without a clear legal framework. And that open local governance requires openness to all social groups, including women in the agricultural sector. He said that the legislator within the local community code focused on political rights while neglecting the rest of the rights, and that the municipal council is responsible for seeking as much as possible to play its role in sensitizing this population.

The symposium was also followed by the regional and national media, and resulted in many important and practical proposals, which highlighted the need for networking for monitoring, study, sensitization, and especially to advocate for the State to assume its responsibilities in the fight against abuses against women workers in the agricultural sector. For its part, the local civil society with the women’s commissions in the municipalities are expected to start awareness sessions on work safety, health of women workers, social security coverage, insurance, etc… the training centers for rural girls can also contribute to training activities on rights and hygiene.

Participants also stressed the need for a legal framework guaranteeing all these rights in order to change the conditions of precariousness.

The symposium concluded with the presentation of the next steps presented by Ms. Afaf Zaddem, the delegate of the Agency for Local Democracy, followed by the presentation of the study both in Sidi Bouzid and Mahdia in the presence of local actors, launch a national advocacy campaign on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women on October 15, 2020, and form a legal committee to present a legislative initiative for a status that preserves the rights of rural women in the agricultural sector. For its part, LDA Tunisia is responsible for mobilizing national and international partners to support this local initiative that has grown”.

Watch the promotional video of this study: https://urlz.fr/dHsO.

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Did you know that the APProach project created an online platform? Discover this great digital tool! 

Why the platform? One of the goals of the project was to design an online platform where European citizens and project partners can collaborate together. During various months, through test group activities and surveys, the project consortium asked for feedback from a number of EU citizens about the platform, what they wanted to see in it, etc…

The APProach platform was hence born thanks to the collaboration of both parties in order to answer as best as possible the questions and needs of mobile European citizens when they arrive in a new city.

How does it work? This platform was developed by 6 European cities that have a strong wish to help their newcomers: Paris, Lisbon, Etterbeek, Milan, Vejle and Nea Smyrni. A dedicated page was designed for each city, and the majority of the pages are both in the national language and in English.

By navigating the platform, every EU citizen will be able to find information on various topics such as education, civic and social life as well as voting. There is also an option to be an active participant in the evolution of the platform by becoming its member, thus being enabled to share events through a collaborative calendar and to help other newcomers by translating content in other languages.

What are you waiting for? Visit the APProach online platform: https://project-approach.eu/.

For more information about the APProach project

About the project: starting in April 2018, the APProach project is working to fill an existing gap which limits the exercises of citizens’ civic rights by co-creating an online platform. The project is co-funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme, aiming to facilitate the circulation of information towards EU mobile citizens for them to effectively exercise their rights in their welcoming city.

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ALDA opens its doors to all those who want to support our work, whatever their age, nationality or profession! Contribute to our mission with a small donation, starting from €20 a year, and become a Friend of ALDA!

If you care about local democracy and citizen participation, you can now support the Association towards the values and goals you have at heart. Join the Friends of ALDA and

– always be up to date on our sectors of action
– receive our monthly and thematic newsletters
– be in the know of all our meetings, conferences and projects in the enlarged Europe
– benefit from discounts on training opportunities and other ALDA activities

…and more! We’ll be happy to send you your e-card “Friends of ALDA” in recognition of your special bond with us!

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Supporta la democrazia locale e la partecipazione cittadina, diventa Amico/a di ALDA!

ALDA apre le proprie porte a tutti coloro che desiderano sostenere il nostro lavoro, qualsiasi sia la loro età, nazionalità o professione! Contribuisci alla nostra missione con una piccola donazione, a partire da €20 all’anno, e diventa Amico/a di ALDA!

Se la democrazia locale e la partecipazione dei cittadini sono importanti per te, ora puoi supportare l’Associazione per i valori e gli obiettivi che hai a cuore! Unisciti agli Amici di ALDA e

– sarai sempre aggiornato/a sui nostri settori di azione
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…ed altro ancora! Saremo felici di inviarti la tua e-card “Amici di ALDA” in riconoscimento del tuo speciale legame con noi!

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If you come from, or know, the Western Balkans, have you ever wondered what Konjic, Brezovica, Uzice or Sid have in common? The answer is that they all have exquisite post-WW2 monuments as part of their cultural heritage.

This summer, young bloggers, greeters and touristic workers are having the opportunity to visit different parts of these cultural heritage sites in the Western Balkans, where the local Local Democracy Agencies (LDAs) are proposing three different tours around Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia within the “Monumental 9” project.

First, a tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro includes visits to Tito’s bunker in Konjic, the Battle of Neretva Memorial in Jablanica, the Partisan cemetery in Mostar and the Trebjesa Memorial site near Niksic. The Monument Brezovica in Kosovo, Makedonium in Krusevo (North Macedonia) and Bubanj Memorial Park in Nis (Serbia) follow in the second tour. The last itinerary, finally, goes from the Kadinjaca Monument site in Uzice through the Sremski Front memorial park in Sid and ends with the Kozara Monument in Prijedor.

In thisexciting discovery experience dipped in rich history, the young bloggers and greeters involved have the opportunity to film while boating on the marvelous Jablanica Lake or document the local artisanal production of cheese and coffee – as not only the history of the monuments is important, but its connection with the beautiful local nature and its valuable produce, too. How to forget the Balkanic traditional and fine industries such as knitting in Jablanica or crafting your own bracelets in Mostar, not to mention the varied and tasteful local gastronomy?

This touristic offer of the WW2 cultural heritage of the Western Balkans collected by the Monumental 9 project will soon be presented on a new website, showcasing all those attractive places for everyone to see. Stay tuned!

Monumental 9 is supported by the Regional Cooperation Council and implemented by ALDA’s Skopje office and Western Balkan LDAs.

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In cooperation with local partners in Moldova, starting in mid-July 2020 ALDA has organized more than 15 trainings in the context of the AGREED project’s capacity-building programme for Local Authorities (LAs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).

With the aim to increase LPAs and CSOs’ knowledge and skills in the fields of decentralization, transparency and citizen participation, the programme provides them with crucial training on the application of the principles of participatory democracy within the context of local communities. The trainings, which should amount to at least one for each of the 32 districts of Moldova by the end of September, are delivered face-to-face where possible and in online format in those districts where the Covid-19 situation doesn’t allow for that.

Panel discussions tackle various aspects of cooperation between CSOs and LAs, such as open government partnership in the service of local democracy or the preconditions for effective cooperation between the two; so far, all meetings have gathered around 35-45 participants including a great mix of mayors, local counselors and representatives of non-governmental organisations, as well as the presidents and/or vice-presidents of the districts when available.

“We will be grateful if you’ll organize such trainings in the future again”, mentioned participants in their evaluation questionnaire. “The information and consultation provided is extremely helpful”.

Co-financed by National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the capacity-building programme is looking forward to continue its mission in the coming weeks with hopefully ever-increasing success!

The 24-month AGREED project (Activating Governance Reform for Enhancing Development) is co-financed by the European Union and implemented by Alda together with the Local Democracy Agency Moldova and the University Legal Clinic Balti. It aims to strengthen the capacity of Moldovan local authorities to perform a transparent and participatory governance in their Communities, with a specific reference to the policy-making process related to decentralisation reform.

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Over the last 17 years, the European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek), i.e. the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to regional policy, has been instrumental in promoting policy learning and exchange of good practices.

This year, we are thrilled that ALDA will be especially active in this unique communication and networking platform: as well as situating the annual General Assembly within the framework of the Week, in fact, the Association is one of its official partners and will be involved in two of its October events as project partner of the CAMELOT and the LIFE Metro Adapt projects.

To begin with, during the first week of the exceptional 3-week spread of this 2020 edition, the CAMELOT project will lead a workshop on Metropolitan cities and European funds to tackle Covid-19 emergency under the “Empowering Citizens” theme. Taking place on October 6th from 9:30 to 11am, the workshop will be an opportunity to share best practices about facing the pandemic crisis and to reflect about future cities’ outlook, while steering cities in the direction of green, digital, sustainable growth and relying on cooperation among European States.

From an overview on the new European Multi-annual Financial Framework (2021-2027) to a debate around the three main challenges that cities are nowadays called to face (social, digital, green), CAMELOT’s lead partner the Metropolitan City of Milan and ALDA will bring to discussion successful cases and experiences in European funding management and implementation, for the economic reconstruction of cities and the creation of new opportunities for their communities; and will present its experience with the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative and React-EU.

On October 22nd from 11:30am to 1pm, then, the LIFE Metro Adapt project will intervene in the “Green Europe” week, in cooperation with the European Green Week of which ALDA is also an official partner, on the topic of Adapting European Metropolitan Areas to Climate Change. As Europe has been identified as one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change, this workshop will analyze the fundamental role of European Metropolitan Cities in setting a comprehensive strategy to adopt climate change adaptation measures at the local level.

Starting from the successful process developed within the LIFE Metro Adapt project itself (co-funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Union), the workshop will (1) create dialogue on the possible measures and strategies for climate change adaptation that local authorities can strive towards, specifically as regards flood risk prevention and the reduction of the urban heat islands effect; (2) stress the importance of fostering good practices replicability and knowledge transfer at the European level; and (3) encourage citizens’ participation.

Register for all events of the 18th European Week of Regions and Cities from August 27th, 2020!
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À la Semaine européenne des régions avec CAMELOT et LIFE Metro Adapt

Au cours des 17 dernières années, la Semaine européenne des régions et des villes (#EURegionsWeek), c’est-à-dire le plus grand événement annuel à Bruxelles consacré à la politique régionale, a joué un rôle essentiel dans la promotion de l’apprentissage politique et de l’échange de bonnes pratiques.

Cette année, nous sommes ravis qu’ALDA soit particulièrement active dans cette plateforme unique de communication et de mise en réseau. En plus de situer l’Assemblée générale annuelle dans le cadre de la Semaine, l’Association est en effet l’un de ses partenaires officiels et sera impliquée dans deux de ses événements d’octobre en tant que partenaire des projets CAMELOT et LIFE Metro Adapt.

Tout d’abord, pendant la première semaine de cette édition 2020 qui durera exceptionnellement 3 semaines, le projet CAMELOT animera un atelier sur les villes métropolitaines et les fonds européens pour faire face à l’urgence de Covid-19 sous le thème “Empowering Citizens”. L’atelier, qui aura lieu le 6 octobre de 9h30 à 11h, sera l’occasion de partager les meilleures pratiques pour faire face à la crise pandémique et de réfléchir aux perspectives des villes futures, tout en orientant les villes vers une croissance verte, numérique et durable et en s’appuyant sur la coopération entre les États européens.

D’un aperçu du nouveau cadre financier pluriannuel européen (2021-2027) à un débat autour des trois principaux défis auxquels les villes sont aujourd’hui appelées à faire face (social, numérique, vert), le partenaire principal de CAMELOT, la ville métropolitaine de Milan et ALDA, apporteront à la discussion des cas et des expériences réussies en matière de gestion et de mise en œuvre de financements européens, pour la reconstruction économique des villes et la création de nouvelles opportunités pour leurs communautés ; et présenteront leur expérience avec l’initiative d’investissement dans la réponse au coronavirus et React-EU.

Le 22 octobre de 11h30 à 13h, le projet LIFE Metro Adapt interviendra dans le cadre de la semaine “Green Europe”, en coopération avec la Semaine verte européenne dont ALDA est également un partenaire officiel, sur le thème de l’adaptation des aires métropolitaines européennes au changement climatique. L’Europe ayant été identifiée comme l’une des zones les plus vulnérables au changement climatique, cet atelier analysera le rôle fondamental des villes métropolitaines européennes dans la mise en place d’une stratégie globale visant à adopter des mesures d’adaptation au changement climatique au niveau local.

En partant du processus réussi développé dans le cadre du projet LIFE Metro Adapt (cofinancé par le programme LIFE de l’Union européenne), l’atelier (1) créera un dialogue sur les mesures et stratégies possibles d’adaptation au changement climatique que les autorités locales peuvent s’efforcer d’adopter, en particulier en ce qui concerne la prévention des risques d’inondation et la réduction de l’effet d’îlot de chaleur urbain ; (2) soulignera l’importance de favoriser la reproductibilité des bonnes pratiques et le transfert de connaissances au niveau européen ; et (3) encouragera la participation des citoyens.

Inscrivez-vous à tous les événements de la 18e Semaine européenne des régions et des villes à partir du 27 août 2020 !

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Alla Settimana UE delle Regioni con CAMELOT e LIFE Metro Adapt 

Negli ultimi 17 anni, la Settimana Europea delle Regioni e delle Città (#EURegionsWeek), maggior evento annuale di Bruxelles dedicato alla politica regionale, ha contribuito in modo cruciale a promuovere l’apprendimento delle politiche e lo scambio di buone pratiche.

Quest’anno, ALDA sarà felicemente particolarmente attiva in questa piattaforma unica di comunicazione e networking: oltre a collocare l’annuale Assemblea Generale nell’ambito della Settimana, infatti, l’Associazione è uno dei suoi partner ufficiali e sarà coinvolta in due dei suoi eventi di ottobre come partner di progetto dei progetti CAMELOT e LIFE Metro Adapt.

Per cominciare, durante la prima delle eccezionali 3 settimane di calendario per questa edizione 2020, il progetto CAMELOT condurrà un workshop a tema Città metropolitane e fondi europei per affrontare l’emergenza Covid-19 all’interno della serie “Empowering Citizens”. Il workshop, che si terrà il 6 ottobre dalle 9.30 alle 11.00, sarà un’occasione per condividere le migliori pratiche per affrontare la crisi pandemica e per riflettere sulle prospettive future delle città, orientandole verso una crescita verde, digitale e sostenibile e puntando sulla cooperazione tra gli Stati europei.

Da una panoramica sul nuovo Quadro Finanziario Pluriennale Europeo (2021-2027) ad un dibattito sulle tre principali sfide che le città sono oggi chiamate ad affrontare (sociale, digitale, verde), ALDA e il capofila di CAMELOT, la Città Metropolitana di Milano, metteranno sul tavolo casi ed esperienze di successo nella gestione ed implementazione dei finanziamenti europei per la ricostruzione economica delle città e la creazione di nuove opportunità per le loro comunità; e presenteranno l’esperienza milanese con la “Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative” e con “React-EU”.

Il 22 ottobre dalle 11.30 alle 13.00, poi, il progetto LIFE Metro Adapt interverrà nella settimana “Green Europe”, in collaborazione con la Settimana Verde Europea di cui ALDA pure è partner ufficiale, a proposito dell’Adattamento delle aree metropolitane europee ai cambiamenti climatici. Dal momento che l’Europa è stata identificata come una delle aree più vulnerabili al cambiamento climatico, il workshop analizzerà il ruolo fondamentale delle città metropolitane europee nel definire una strategia a tutto tondo per adottare misure di adattamento al cambiamento climatico a livello locale.

A partire dall’efficace processo sviluppato nell’ambito del progetto LIFE Metro Adapt stesso (co-finanziato dal Programma LIFE dell’Unione Europea), il workshop (1) creerà un dialogo sulle possibili misure e strategie per l’adattamento al cambiamento climatico cui le autorità locali possono tendere, in particolare per quanto riguarda la prevenzione del rischio di inondazioni e la riduzione dell’effetto delle isole di calore urbano; (2) sottolineerà l’importanza di promuovere la replicabilità delle buone pratiche e il trasferimento di conoscenze a livello europeo; e (3) incoraggerà la partecipazione dei cittadini.

Iscriviti a tutti gli eventi della 18esima Settimana Europea delle Regioni e delle Città dal 27 agosto 2020!

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На Неделе регионов ЕС с CAMELOT и LIFE Metro Adapt

За последние 17 лет Европейская неделя регионов и городов (#EURegionsWeek), то есть крупнейшее ежегодное мероприятие в Брюсселе, посвященное региональной политике, сыграла важную роль в содействии изучению политики и обмену передовым опытом.

В этом году мы очень рады, что ALDA будет особенно активна в этой уникальной коммуникационной и сетевой платформе: помимо проведения ежегодной Генеральной Ассамблеи в рамках Недели, фактически, Ассоциация является одним из ее официальных партнеров и будет участвовать в двух октябрьских мероприятиях в качестве партнера проектов CAMELOT и LIFE Metro Adapt.

Начнем с того, что в течение первой недели исключительного трехнедельного распространения этого издания 2020 года проект CAMELOT проведет семинар по мегаполисам и европейским фондам для решения проблемы чрезвычайной ситуации Covid-19 в рамках темы «Расширение прав и возможностей граждан». Семинар, который состоится 6 октября с 9:30 до 11:00, предоставит возможность поделиться передовым опытом борьбы с пандемическим кризисом и поразмышлять о перспективах городов будущего, в то же время направляя города в направлении зеленого, цифрового, устойчивого роста и опираясь на сотрудничество между европейскими государствами.

От обзора новой европейской многолетней финансовой системы (2021-2027) до обсуждения трех основных проблем, с которыми в настоящее время сталкиваются города (социальные, цифровые, зеленые), ведущий партнер CAMELOT –  город Милан и ALDA представит на обсуждение успешные примеры и опыт в области управления и реализации финансирования в Европе для экономической реконструкции городов и создания новых возможностей для их сообществ; и представит свой опыт работы с Инвестиционной Инициативой по Реагированию на Коронавирус и React-EU.

Затем, 22 октября с 11:30 до 13:00, проект LIFE Metro Adapt примет участие в неделе «Зеленой Европы» в сотрудничестве с Европейской зеленой неделей, официальным партнером которой является и компания ALDA, по теме адаптации европейских мегаполисов к изменению климата. Поскольку Европа была определена как одна из наиболее уязвимых областей для изменения климата, на этом семинаре будет проанализирована фундаментальная роль европейских мегаполисов в разработке всеобъемлющей стратегии для принятия мер по адаптации к изменению климата на местном уровне.

Начиная с успешного процесса, разработанного в рамках самого проекта LIFE Metro Adapt (финансируемого совместно с программой LIFE Европейского Союза), семинар (1) создаст диалог о возможных мерах и стратегиях адаптации к изменению климата, к которым могут стремиться местные власти в частности в отношении предотвращения риска наводнений и уменьшения эффекта городских тепловых островов; (2) подчеркнуть важность содействия воспроизведению передовой практики и передаче знаний на европейском уровне; и (3) поощрять участие граждан.

Регистрируйтесь на все мероприятия 18-й Европейской недели регионов и городов с 27 августа 2020 года!

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Na EU nedelji regiona sa projektima CAMELOT i LIFE Metro Adapt 

Tokom poslednjih 17 godina, Evropska nedelja regiona i gradova (#EURegionsWeek), tj . najveći godišnji događaj u Briselu, posvećen regionalnoj politici, bio je klјučan za promociju učenja o politici i razmene dobrih praksi.

Ove godine smo oduševlјeni time što će ALDA biti posebno aktivna u ovoj jedinstvenoj platformi za komunikaciju i umrežavanje: kao i održavanju godišnje Generalne skupštine u okviru tog događaja, u stvari, naša asocijacija je jedan od zvaničnih partnera i biće uklјučen u dva oktobarska događaja kao partner na projektima CAMELOT i LIFE Metro Adapt.

Za početak, tokom prve nedelјe događaja, projekat CAMELOT će voditi radionicu o metropolitskim gradovima i evropskim fondovima za rešavanje problema za pružanje pomoći tokom Covid-19 krize u okviru teme “Osnaživanje građana”. Radionica će se održati 6. oktobra od 9:30 do 11:00, i to će biti dobra prilika za razmenu najbolјih praksi suočavanja sa pandemijskom krizom i za razmišlјanje o izgledom gradova u budućnosti, usmeravajući ih u pravcu zelenog, digitalnog, održivog rasta i oslanjajući se na saradnju između evropskih država.

Od pregleda novog evropskog višegodišnjeg finansijskog okvira (2021.-2027.), do debate o tri glavna izazova sa kojima se danas gradovi suočavaju (socijalni, digitalni, zeleni), vodeći partner CAMELOT-a, grad Milano i ALDA izneće tokom diskusije uspešne slučajeve i iskustva u upravlјanju i primeni evropskog finansiranja, za ekonomsku obnovu gradova i stvaranje novih mogućnosti za njihove zajednice; i predstaviće svoje iskustvo sa Inicijativom za investiranje u reagovanje na korona virus i React-EU.

22. oktobra od 11:30 do 13:00, projekat LIFE Metro Adapt uključiće se u nedelјu „Zelene Evrope“, u saradnji sa Evropskom zelenom nedeljom, u okviru koje je ALDA takođe zvanični partner, na temu prilagođavanja evropskih metropola klimatskim promenama. Pošto je Evropa identifikovana kao jedno od najugroženijih područja za klimatske promene, ova radionica će analizirati osnovnu ulogu evropskih gradova u uspostavlјanju sveobuhvatne strategije za usvajanje mera prilagođavanja klimatskim promenama na lokalnom nivou.

Polazeći od uspešnog procesa razvijenog u okviru samog projekta LIFE Metro Adapt (sufinansiranog iz LIFE programa Evropske unije), radionica će (1) kreirati dijalog o mogućim merama i strategijama za prilagođavanje klimatskim promenama kojima lokalne vlasti mogu da teže, posebno u pogledu sprečavanja rizika od poplava i smanjenja efekta urbanih toplih ostrva; (2) naglasiti važnost podsticanja ponovlјivosti dobre prakse i prenosa znanja na evropskom nivou; i (3) podsticanje učešća građana.

Registrujte se za sve događaje 18. evropske nedelјe regiona i gradova od 27. avgusta 2020. godine!

العربية

فيالأسبوعالأوروبيللمناطقرفقةكاملوولايفمتروأدابت

 (#EURegionsWeek),خلال فترة 17 سنة الأخيرة, مثلت تظاهرة الأسبوع الأوروبي للمناطق والمدن
.أكبر تظاهرة سنوية تم تنظيمها بمدينة بروكسل وخصصتللسياسةالإقليمية, أداة فاعلة للترويج لفنون تعليم السياسة وتبادل الممارسات الحميدة

هذا العام, يحدونا شعور كبير يتسم بالإثارة والحماس أمامالنشاطالخاصالذيتقومبهألدا على هذه المنصة الفريدة في مجال الاتصال والتشبيك: إضافة إلى وضع الجمعية العامة السنوية في الإطار الاسبوعي. ستتكفل الجمعية, التي تمثلأحدالشركاءالرسميين, بتنظيم تظاهرتين اثنتين, تقام خلال شهر أكتوبر (تشرين الأول), حيث ستكون شريكا في مشروع كاملو ومشروع لايف متروأدابت.

في البداية, وخلال الأسبوع الأول ضمن البرنامج الخاص الذي سيمتد على مدى 3 أسابيع في إطار دورة 2020 هذه, سيتولى القائمون على مشروع كاملو قيادة ورشة عمل حول موضوع المدنالمتروبوليةوالاعتماداتالأوروبيةللتعاملمعحالاتالطوارئالتيفرضتهاجائحةكوفيد-19, وذلك تحت عنوان “تمكين المواطنين”. ستمثل هذه الورشة التي ستنظم يوم 6 أكتوبر (تشرينالأول), منالساعة 9.30 إلى 11.00, فرصة سانحة لتبادل أفضل الممارسات حول طريقة التعامل مع جائحة كوفيد-19 والتفكير في الشكل الذي ستكتسبه المدن مستقبلا, مع الحرص على توجيه هذه المدن نحو كل ما هو أخضر ورقمي وكذلك نحو التنمية المستدامة والاعتماد على أصناف شتى من التعاون بين مختلف الدول الأوروبية

انطلاقا من لمحة عن الإطار المالي المتعدد السنوات لأوروبا جديدة (2021-2027) ووصولا إلى نقاش حول ثلاثة تحديات كبرى يتعين على المدن رفعها في الوقت الحاضر (من الجوانب الاجتماعية والرقمية والخضراء), ستتولى كل من مدينة ميلانو المتروبولية, بصفتها الشريك الأساسي في مشروع كاملو, وألدا إثارة الحالات والتجارب الناجحة للنقاش في إطار منظومة الإدارة والتنفيذ للاعتمادات الأوروبية, وذلك بهدف إنجاز إعادة الإعمار الاقتصادي للمدن وخلق فرص جديدة لفائدة مجتمعاتهم المحلية. كما سيتم بهذه المناسبة تقديم التجربة الخاصة بمبادرة الاستثمار للتعامل مع جائحة كوفيد-19 ورد الفعل في الاتحاد (Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative and React-EU)- الأوروبي.

يوم 22 أكتوبر (تشرينالأول), منالساعة 11.00 إلى  13.00, سيقدم القائمون على مشروع لايف مترو أدابت مداخلة تأتي في إطار أسبوع “أوروبا الخضراء“, وذلك بالتعاون مع أسبوع أوروبا الخضراء,  الذي تُعدّ الدا أحد الشركاء الرئيسيين فيه ,حول محورتأقلمالمناطقالمتروبوليةالأوروبيةمعالتغيراتالمناخية.

بعد تصنيف أوروبا كمنطقة أكثر هشاشة بسبب التغيرات المناخية, سيتولى المشاركون في هذه الورشة تحليل الدور المحوري الذي تلعبه المدن المتروبولية في أوروبا في اعتماد استراتيجية شاملة لاتخاذ اجراءات تمكن من التأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية على المستوى المحلي.

انطلاقا من التجربة الناجحة التي تم اعتمادها في إطار مشروع لايف مترو أدابت نفسه (الذي يحظى بتمويل مشترك من قبل برنامج لايف للاتحاد الأوروبي), سيعكف منظمو الورشة على (1) خلق حوار حول الاجراءات والاستراتيجيات الممكنة للتأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية والتي يمكن للسلطات المحلية التطلع لها وخاصة فيما يتعلق بالوقاية من مخاطر الفيضانات والحد من تداعيات ظاهرة الجزر الحرارية الحضرية, (2) التأكيد على أهمية استنساخ الممارسات الحميدة ونقل المعرفة على المستوى الأوروبي, و(3) التشجيع على مشاركة المواطنين.

بادر بالتسجيل للمساهمة في كافة التظاهرات التي ستقام بمناسبة الدورة 18 للأسبوع الأوروبي للمناطق والمدن, انطلاقا من تاريخ 27 أكتوبر (تشرين الأول), 2020

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While Coronavirus keeps circulating all over the world, governments and civic society organizations are each implementing their own measures to face the pandemic, thus giving a variety of local responses to this global phenomenon.

For months now, ALDA member the Local Council Association (LCA) has been doing just that in its home country of Malta, and ALDA is proud to share such contribution as one of the good practices to counter the crisis that we are studying through our ad hoc questionnaire. In cooperation with the island’s authorities, LCA is in fact involved in the management of two projects that could actually continue and evolve even after the end of the current emergency, given their proven ability to improve the quality of life in Malta.

The first project is called YouSafe. Starting from the assumption that any crisis can be seen as an opportunity to improve behaviours and procedures, its founding idea is for the pandemic to act as a motivation for Local Councils to move away from a model of delivering services to and for people, and adopt a model of delivering services with people instead.

Indeed, YouSafe’s setup consists of 68 Facebook Groups, one for each Maltese Local Council, which are managed and moderated independently by each Local Council’s team. All groups then come together under a single ad hoc Facebook Page aiming to facilitate growth, the dissemination of general information and the cross-sharing of information among the different communities and Local Councils. Moreover, the team managing each group is encouraged to take part in conversations to reach a variety of goals, among which the creation and fostering of dialogue with local inhabitants; a greater involvement in decision-making; the energising of residents around particular initiatives or topics; and a habit for communities to help one another.

Secondly but not less importantly, the LCA is carrying forward the Slow Streets project, too. In cooperation with the Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government and in coordination with Transport Malta and the Ministry for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Project, the Association is working on an action plan to make sure that the mobility flows resuming after Coronavirus’ first wave are safe, sustainable, healthy and efficient.

More specifically, as travelling on foot and by bycicle will keep being the most recommended ways to get around for short and medium distances, the plan wishes to promote walking and cycling; and, with that in mind, it foresees a few necessary temporary interventions. Such short-term actions can in turn be considered as a tool to test ideas before implementing large-scale and expensive projects which might run the risk of not actually meeting the designed goals, while some may prove so successful as to become permanent or cyclical from their very onset.

All actions are part of the LCA Vision 2019-2024 plan, through which Malta will implement actions in the four key sectors of urban green; mobility and sustainable transport; smart city; and open space. Hoping that this can serve as inspiration for others, ALDA wishes to congratulate the Local Council Association for its amazing efforts so far: keep up the remarkable work!

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We are happy to announce a recent addition among the ranks of our ALDA ambassadors! As of beginning of August 2020, we were delighted to have Pascal Goergen join this wonderful group of committed individuals with the mandate to represent the Association and consolidate it at the local level as a pan-European organisation… and beyond.

Vice-Mayor of the Municipality of Grez-Doiceau in Belgium, where Mr Goergen leads citizen participation, civic affairs, population, digitalisation, international relations and partnerships, we couldn’t think of a better fit for this role and its aim to improve visibility and establish relationships with new counterparts and to support the action of the ALDA members in Belgium.

With around 20 years of experience in local and regional European affairs, indeed, this 57-year-old Belgian is a doctor in Political Science and a trained Germanist who is very familiar with the realities of his country and is a fervent defender of democratic values, particularly at the regional, national and European levels.

Included in his noteworthy curriculum are 10 years as diplomatic representative of the Brussels-Capital region to the European Union as well as almost 4 years as Secretary General of the Assembly of European Regions (AER); and it was out of Mr Goergen’s initiative that his Municipality became the first ALDA member of the Walloon Region in 2019 and will soon participate in a European project in partnership with other ALDA members, too.

“From the beginning of my mandate in Grez-Doiceau in December 2018, I have put ethics, good governance and citizen participation at the centre of my concerns. A charter of good governance and a code of citizen participation were adopted by the Communal Council. My municipality’s membership of ALDA is a real added value: on the one hand, it is a way of putting Grez-Doiceau on the European map and, on the other hand, it provides a whole range of tools to improve citizens’ participation in local life: through European programmes, exchanges of good practice and via the ALDA network. As an ambassador, I would like all Belgian municipalities to benefit from this added value that Alda represents“. Thank you Pascal, and welcome!

–> Read the related article on the Brussels Express.

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On September 22nd and 23rd, 2020, the closing conference of the Monumental 9 project was held in Nikšić, Montenegro officially announcing the end of the project activities.

The outcomes of Monumental 9 included online trainings for young local greeters, vloggers and bloggers as well as, most importantly, the creation of 3 pilot tours to promote memorial tourism – the first in Konjic, Jablanica, Mostar and Nikšić; the second in Brezovica, Kruševo, Niš; and the last in Prijedor, Šid and Užice.

An interactive and friendly website containing audio, visual and written narratives of the nine magnificent WWII monuments in question was also created, giving the possibility to explore the Balkan adventure of the project stakeholders, and can be visited at www.monumental9.org.

The values at the core of the project will now see a follow-up with the new CulTours activities funded by the Western Balkan Fund, which aim to create a mobile application for the promotion and dissemination of local cultural heritage.

The CulTours will carry on and promote Monumental 9’s core values

Monumental 9 was supported by the Regional Cooperation Council through the Tourism Development & Promotion Project’s Grant Programme, and funded by European Union. Implemented by the Local Democracy Agency Montenegro as lead partner, its consortium involved LDA Mostar, LDA Kosovo, LDA Zavidovici, LDA Prijedor, LDA Knjazevac, LDA Subotica & ALDA Skopje and drew on the cultural heritage monuments dedicated to WWII in the Western Balkans.

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International African Women’s Day was promulgated by the United Nations in 1962, before being officially declared on July 31st, 1974, during the first Congress organised by the Panafrican Women’s Organisation in Dakar.

Since that moment, African women have set numerous achievements and have been marking history thanks to the important role they have been playing within their countries, as well as in the world, increasingly showing an authentic leadership that is taking foot in the political and economic world.

On July 31st, 2020, LDA Tunisia organised a joint event together with the Youth Economic Chamber (Jeune Chambre Economique JCI) in Kairouan, Tunisia to celebrate such important recurrence. The idea to make this happen was born during a “friendly talk” session with JCI Junior Kairouan, as the group wanted to honour all African Women for their perseverance, resilience in protecting their rights, and for contributing to the consolidation of democracy and to the sustainable development of their countries. Prepared and realised by youth, the event allowed the audience to discover through a docu-film the lives of the 5 most affirmed African women, followed by an “open mic” session where the audience of young students had the chance to share their related experiences in the city of Kairouan.

The whole occasion was marked by outstanding vivacity, bright colours and African rythms which brought joy to all, and was a great way not only to reaffirm the important role of women in the Continent, but also to promote the culture of African students in Kairouan, and to allow youth to perceive and appreciate the ethnic and linguistic differences of the Sub-Saharan African community that resides there.

Once again, a wonderful initiative brought together by LDA Tunisia together with local actors, in line with its strategic objectives of promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) connected to sustainable cities and communities; local governance and citizen participation; gender equality; local development and cultural heritage valorisation. The Agency has to date completed the PARFAIT project and is currently involved in the projects In City, Ricomincio Da Te, and AUTREMENT. In addition, it is undertaking a strategy for waste management in Kairouan, conducting a field study on local women employed in the agricultural field, and hosting regular workshops and webinars: a true inspiration for all of Alda!

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The Media Dialogue project, implemented with the financial support of the European Union, is launching its third call for proposal, this time in light of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, on October 4th, 2020.

This grants call is meant to support Kyrgyz media organisations in the creation of media outputs related to the parliamentary elections, and is addressed to private and no-profit media outlets and other media actors such as associations of journalists and editors, CSOs and production studios/companies officially registered in Kyrgyzstan. Applications by consortia of two or more eligible organisations are encouraged.

To be eligible under this call for proposals, interested organisations should send the completed application and budget forms in English, Russian or Kyrgyz language to cholponbolotbekova@epd.eu.

The deadline to submit project proposals is August 16th, 2020, at 23:59 (Bishkek time)

Visit the Media Dialogue website for more information on the eligible criteria, financial conditions and the application process!

Media Dialogue is implemented by a consortium of five organisations: the European Partnership for Democracy (lead partner), ARTICLE 19, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Media Policy Institute and Alda*. The project aims to strengthen the national media environment in Kyrgyzstan by engaging media outlets, decision-makers and civil society in a dialogue to identify the challenges faced by the media sphere which harness their potential in promoting media policy and reforms in the sector.

The deadline for participants will be open until August 16, 2020

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Remember the Student Talent Bank project? It took place from November 2017 to December 2019, and we would normally hardly have any more news on it now. Yet, July 15th, 2020 marked a moment of special pride as ALDA received an unexpected letter by the Erasmus+ Agency in France; one which officially gave the project the label of “Bonne Pratique”, good practice!

After a careful qualitative evaluation of the project’s final report and a verification of its financial management, in fact, the Agency carried out a conclusive, all-comprehensive evaluation on the basis of criteria defined by the European Commission to measure the relevance, general quality of implementation, impact and dissemination of the project results, and found them to be of high quality. Hence, the project was selected as an official example of good practice, and ALDA is now entitled to the use of the related “Bonne Pratique” logo to represent it!

This selection may give rise, in the future, to requests by the Agency as well as by the European Commission in terms of testimonies, interventions or publications, project collections and participation to prizes, within the framework of specific actions of promotion linked to the implementation and / or the results of other European Erasmus+ projects. In addition, this mention of distinction now appears on the Erasmus+ project results platform.

ALDA is of course more than proud of this recognition, and extremely grateful to the evaluators and to all project managers and partners who contributed to such exemplary results.

The Student Talent Bank project aimed to foster secondary school teachers’ professional development in order to better manage diversity and early school leaving, and to increase school engagement especially in areas characterised by high percentages of ethnic minorities and foreign-born students.

It focused on (1) strengthening the profile of school teachers by enhancing entrepreneurial education and learning with a participatory approach to training; and (2) tackling early school leaving, by using entrepreneurial education as a method to support teachers in increasing student engagement and enabling students to take the future in their hands. Project activities were implemented in Belgium, France, Greece, Netherlands, Romania, and Spain.

Access the Student Talent Bank entrepreneurial course for teachers HERE, in the Moodle section (available in six languages) and learn more about the project HERE.

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Félicitations, Student Talent Bank ! Une “Bonne Pratique” certifiée par Erasmus+ France

Vous vous souvenez du projet de banque de talents des étudiants (Student Talent Bank)? Il s’est déroulé de novembre 2017 à décembre 2019, et nous n’aurions normalement guère plus de nouvelles à ce sujet maintenant. Pourtant, le 15 juillet 2020 a marqué un moment de fierté particulière puisque l’ALDA a reçu une lettre inattendue de l’Agence Erasmus+ en France ; une lettre qui a officiellement donné au projet le label “Bonne Pratique” !

En effet, après une évaluation qualitative minutieuse du rapport final du projet et une vérification de sa gestion financière, l’Agence a procédé à une évaluation concluante et complète sur la base de critères définis par la Commission européenne pour mesurer la pertinence, la qualité générale de la mise en œuvre, l’impact et la diffusion des résultats du projet, et a constaté leur grande qualité. Le projet a donc été sélectionné comme exemple officiel de bonne pratique, et l’ALDA a maintenant le droit d’utiliser le logo “Bonne Pratique” pour le représenter !

Cette sélection pourra donner lieu, à l’avenir, à des demandes de l’Agence ainsi que de la Commission européenne en termes de témoignages, d’interventions ou de publications, de collectes de projets et de participation à des prix, dans le cadre d’actions spécifiques de promotion liées à la mise en œuvre et/ou aux résultats d’autres projets européens Erasmus+. En outre, cette mention de distinction figure désormais sur la plateforme de résultats des projets Erasmus+.

L’ALDA est bien sûr plus que fière de cette reconnaissance, et extrêmement reconnaissante aux évaluateurs et à tous les gestionnaires et partenaires de projets qui ont contribué à des résultats aussi exemplaires.

Le projet de banque de talents des étudiants visait à favoriser le développement professionnel des enseignants du secondaire afin de mieux gérer la diversité et le décrochage scolaire, et à accroître l’engagement des écoles, en particulier dans les zones caractérisées par un pourcentage élevé de minorités ethniques et d’étudiants nés à l’étranger.

Il s’est concentré sur (1) le renforcement du profil des enseignants en améliorant l’éducation et l’apprentissage entrepreneurial avec une approche participative de la formation ; et (2) la lutte contre le décrochage scolaire, en utilisant l’éducation entrepreneuriale comme méthode pour aider les enseignants à accroître l’engagement des élèves et leur permettre de prendre l’avenir en main. Les activités du projet ont été mises en œuvre en Belgique, en France, en Grèce, aux Pays-Bas, en Roumanie et en Espagne.

Accédez au cours sur l’entrepreneuriat de la banque de talents des étudiants pour les enseignants ICI, dans la section Moodle (disponible en six langues) et apprenez-en plus sur le projet ICI.

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Congratulazioni, Student Talent Bank! Un certificato “Bonne Pratique” da Erasmus+ Francia

Vi ricordate del progetto Student Talent Bank? Ha avuto luogo da novembre 2017 a dicembre 2019 e, normalmente, non avremmo avuto più notizie al riguardo ora. Tuttavia, il 15 luglio 2020 ha segnato uno speciale momento di orgoglio, in quanto ALDA ha ricevuto una lettera inaspettata dall’Agenzia Erasmus+ Francia, la quale ha assegnato ufficialmente al progetto l’etichetta di “Bonne Pratique”, buona pratica!

Dopo un’attenta valutazione qualitativa del report finale del progetto e una verifica della sua gestione finanziaria, l’Agenzia ha effettuato una valutazione conclusiva e globale sulla base di criteri definiti dalla Commissione Europea per misurare la pertinenza, la qualità generale di attuazione, impatto e diffusione dei risultati del progetto e li ha trovati di alta qualità. Quindi, il progetto è stato selezionato come esempio ufficiale di buone pratiche e ALDA è ora autorizzata all’uso del relativo logo “Bonne Pratique” per rappresentarlo!

Questa selezione potrebbe dare origine, in futuro, a richieste dell’Agenzia e della Commissione Europea in termini di testimonianze, interventi o pubblicazioni, raccolte di progetti e partecipazioni a premi, nell’ambito di azioni specifiche di promozione legate all’attuazione e / o ai risultati di altri progetti europei Erasmus+. Inoltre, questa menzione di distinzione appare ora sulla piattaforma dei risultati del progetto Erasmus+.

Naturalmente ALDA è molto orgogliosa di questo riconoscimento ed è estremamente grata ai periti e a tutti i project manager e partner che hanno contribuito a risultati così esemplari.

Il progetto Student Talent Bank mirava a favorire lo sviluppo professionale degli insegnanti delle scuole secondarie al fine di gestire meglio la diversità e l’abbandono scolastico e aumentare l’impegno scolastico, specialmente nelle aree caratterizzate da elevate percentuali di minoranze etniche e studenti di origine straniera.

Si è concentrato sul (1) rafforzamento del profilo degli insegnanti scolastici, migliorando l’istruzione e l’apprendimento imprenditoriale con un approccio partecipativo alla formazione; e sull’ (2) affrontare l’abbandono scolastico precoce, utilizzando l’educazione imprenditoriale come metodo per supportare gli insegnanti nell’aumentare il coinvolgimento degli studenti e consentire loro di prendere il futuro nelle loro mani. Le attività del progetto sono state implementate in Belgio, Francia, Grecia, Paesi Bassi, Romania e Spagna.

Clicca QUI per accedere al corso imprenditoriale per insegnanti di Student Talent Bank, nella sezione Moodle (disponibile in sei lingue) e QUI per scoprire di più sul progetto.

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Поздравляем, Студенческий банк талантов! Сертифицированный «Bonne Pratique» от Erasmus + во Франции

Помните проект Student Talent Bank? Это происходило с ноября 2017 года по декабрь 2019 года, и сейчас у нас вряд ли будут какие-либо новости об этом. Тем не менее, 15 июля 2020 года ознаменовалось особой гордостью, поскольку ALDA получила неожиданное письмо от агентства Erasmus + во Франции того самого, которое официально дало проекту ярлык ”Bonne Pratique”, хорошая практика!

После тщательной качественной оценки окончательного отчета по проекту и проверки его финансового управления, Агентство провело окончательную всеобъемлющую оценку на основе критериев, определенных Европейской комиссией, для измерения актуальности, общего качества реализации, воздействия и распространения результатов проекта, и обнаружили, что они были высокого качества. Следовательно, проект был выбран в качестве официального примера хорошей практики, и теперь ALDA имеет право использовать соответствующий логотип «Bonne Pratique» для его представления!

Этот выбор может привести в будущем к запросам Агентства, а также Европейской комиссии в отношении свидетельств, выступлений или публикаций, коллекций проектов и участия в призах в рамках конкретных действий по продвижению, связанных с осуществлением и / или результаты других европейских проектов Erasmus +. Кроме того, это упоминание о различии теперь появляется на платформе результатов проекта Erasmus +.

ALDA, конечно, более чем гордится этим признанием и чрезвычайно благодарен оценщикам и всем руководителям проектов и партнерам, которые внесли свой вклад в такие выдающиеся результаты.

Проект ”Студенческий банк талантов” был направлен на содействие профессиональному развитию учителей средних школ в целях более эффективного управления разнообразием и преждевременным уходом из школы, а также на повышение вовлеченности школ, особенно в районах, характеризующихся высоким процентом этнических меньшинств и учащихся иностранного происхождения.

Основное внимание было уделено (1) укреплению авторитета школьных учителей путем совершенствования предпринимательского образования и обучения с использованием подхода к обучению на основе участия; и (2) решению проблемы преждевременного окончания школы путем использования предпринимательского образования в качестве метода поддержки учителей в повышении вовлеченности учащихся и предоставлении возможности учащимся взять будущее в свои руки. Деятельность проекта осуществлялась в Бельгии, Франции, Греции, Нидерландах, Румынии и Испании.

Зайдите на курс предпринимательства Student Talent Bank для учителей ЗДЕСЬ, в разделе Moodle (доступно на шести языках) и узнайте больше о проекте ЗДЕСЬ.

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Čestitamo, Studentskoj banci talenata! Sertifikovani projekat „Bonne Pratique“ – Dobra praksa – od strane Erasmus+ Francuska

Sećate li se projekta Studentska banka talenata? Taj projekat se odvijao od novembra 2017. do decembra 2019. godine, pa o njemu uglavnom više nema vesti. Ipak, 15. jula 2020. obeležen je poseban trenutak kada je ALDA dobila neočekivano pismo od strane Erasmus+ agencije u Francuskoj; u kojem se zvanično projektu daje oznaka „Bonne Pratikue“, što u prevodu znači dobra praksa!

Nakon pažlјive kvalitativne procene završnog izveštaja projekta i provere njegovog finansijskog upravlјanja, agencija je, u stvari, sprovela konačnu, sveobuhvatnu procenu na osnovu kriterijuma koje je definisala Evropska komisija da bi izmerili relevantnost, opšti kvalitet primene, uticaja i širenja rezultata projekta i ustanovili da su oni visokog kvaliteta. Dakle, projekat je izabran kao zvaničan primer dobre prakse, a ALDA sada ima pravo da koristi odgovarajući logotip „Bonne Pratikue“!

Ovaj izbor može ubuduće izazvati zahteve agencije i Evropske komisije u smislu svedočenja, intervencija ili publikacija, kolekcije projekata i učešća u nagradama u okviru posebnih akcija promocije vezanih za sprovođenje i / ili rezultate drugih evropskih Erasmus+ projekata. Pored toga, ovo priznanje sada se pojavlјuje i na platformi rezultata Erasmus+ .

ALDA je naravno više nego ponosna na ovo priznanje i izuzetno zahvalna evaluatorima i svim rukovodiocima projekata i partnerima koji su doprineli takvim oglednim rezultatima.

Projekat Studentska banka talenata imao je za cilј da podstiče profesionalni razvoj nastavnika u srednjim školama u cilјu bolјeg upravlјanja raznolikošću i ranim napuštanjem školovanja, kao i da poveća školski angažman, posebno u oblastima koje karakterišu visoki procenti etničkih manjina i učenika rođenih u stranim školama.

Fokusirao se na (1) jačanje profila školskih nastavnika pobolјšavanjem preduzetničkog obrazovanja i učenja sa participativnim pristupom obuci; i (2) rešavanju ranog napuštanja škole, korišćenjem preduzetničkog obrazovanja kao metode za podršku nastavnicima u povećanju učeničkog angažmana i omogućavanju učenicima da preuzmu budućnost u svoje ruke. Projektne aktivnosti su realizovane u Belgiji, Francuskoj, Grčkoj, Holandiji, Rumuniji i Španiji.

Pristupite preduzetničkom kursu Studentske Banke Talenata za nastavnike OVDE, u odelјku Moodle (dostupno na šest jezika) i saznajte više o projektu OVDE.

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تهانينا, بنكمواهبالطلبة! “ممارسةجيدة” معتمدةمنقبلإيرسموس+ فرنسا

هل تتذكر مشروع بنك مواهب الطلبة؟ حتى وإن انتظمت هذه التظاهرة خلال الفترة نوفمبر 2017 إلى ديسمبر 2029, إلا أننا نكاد لا نحصل على مزيد من المعلومات حولها الآن. غير أن تاريخ 15 من شهر جويلية (تموز) 2019 يمثل فترة فخر خاصة بالنسبة لألد التي تلقت رسالة مفاجأة من وكالة إيرسمس+ في فرنسا: رسالة منح المشروع رسميا علامة الممارسةالجيدة.

على إثر عملية التقييم المعمقة للتقرير النهائي للمشروع ومراجعة طريقة التصرف في شؤونه المالية, تولت الوكالة القيام بتقييم إيجابي وشامل أنجز على أساس جملة من المقاييس تم ضبطها من قبل المفوضية الأوروبية لتقييم درجة الأهمية وتطبيق معايير الجودة العامة وتأثير نتائج المشروع وطريقة نشرها, خلصت الوكالة إلى الدرجة العالية من الشروط في تنفيذ كافة مكونات المشروع. وبالتالي, تماختيارالمشروعرسمياكمثاليجسدالممارسةالجيدةويمكنألدامناستغلالشعار “الممارسةالجيدة” ذاتالصلة لتمثيلها في كافة المحافل.

على إثر عملية الاختيار هذه, يصبح بإمكان الوكالة والمفوضية الأوروبية, مستقبلا, التقدم بطلبات, حول الشهادات والمداخلات والمنشورات وجمع المشاريع والمساهمة في منح الجوائز, وذلك في إطار الأنشطة الخاصة المرتبطة بمجال الترويج والداعية إلى تنفيذ و/أو النتائج المتمخضة على مشاريع إيرسمس+ الأوروبية. بالإضافة إلى كل هذا, تم تدوين علامةالامتيازالخاصةهذهالآنضمنمنصةالنتائجالتييديرهامشروعإيرسمس+.

على إثر هذا الاعتماد, تود ألدا الأعراب عن شعورها بالفخر الكبير وعن امتنانها الخاص, لكافة من تولوا التقييم ومديري المشروع وشركائه, على مساهمتهم القيمة والثمينة في تحقيق هذه النتائج الممتازة.

كان مشروع بنك مواهب الطلبة يهدف إلى تعزيز القدرات المهنية لأساتذة المدارس الثانوية وتمكينهم من حسن إدارة مسائل التعددية والانقطاع المبكر عن الدراسة, إضافة إلى دعم مساهمتهم في الشؤون المدرسية, وخاصة في المناطق التي تأوي أعدادا كبيرة من الأقليات العرقية والتلاميذ من أصول أجنبية.مكن المشروع من التركيز على (1) تدعيم قدرات أساتذة المدارس ودعم روح المبادرة التربوية والتعليمية لديهم من خلال التركيز علىالمقاربةالتشاركيةعندتقديمالدوراتالتدريبية و(2) التعامل مع مشكلة الانقطاع المبكر عن المدرسة, وذلك باللجوء إلى وسيلة المبادرة التربوية كطريقة لدعمجهودالأساتذةفيصقلروحالمساهمةلفائدةالتلاميذوتمكينهممنالتصرففيمستقبلهمبكلاستقلاليةوحرية. تم تنفيذ المكونات التي تخص أنشطة المشروع في بلجيكا وفرنسا واليونان وهولندا ورومانيا واسبانيا.

انقر هنا, للنفاذ إلى بنك مواهب الطلبة حول دورة المبادرة التربوية لفائدة الأساتذة, وذلك في القسم المعروف باسم مودل (متوفر بعدد ست لغات), للاطلاع على مزيد من المعلومات حول المشروع هنا

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June 2020 was an important month for two of the ALDA co-implemented projects within the LIFE Climate Action sub-programme: after one and a half years from the beginning of their implementation, LIFE Metro Adapt and LIFE BEWARE successfully completed (online!) their second annual monitoring visit, presenting their results and ongoing work respectively to Mrs Yael Meroz and Mr Paolo Rosa-Clot, representatives of NEEMO, the external monitoring team for the LIFE Programme. The technical and administrative representatives of each partner organization also attended the visit.

The LIFE Metro Adapt project led by the Metropolitan City of Milan (Italy), showcased the promotion of measures to support climate change adaptation in the area, as well as the increase in temperatures and concentration of heavy rainfalls that it is analyzing. More specifically, the project is supporting the implementation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) such as green roofs, green walls, urban forests, alternative rainwater management systems and urban agriculture which represent one of the main strategies to mitigate flood risk and the “heat island” effect in urban areas.

In this respect, two feasibility studies were realized and a catalogue of 20 NBSs was produced to illustrate the sustainable solutions that can be implemented in urban and peri-urban areas. Like all other outputs of the project, these are collected in the Metro Adapt Platform for use by local administrations and citizens; while the project partners are also working to build a national and international network to encourage the project replicability and enhance bottom-up initiatives for citizens’ awareness on climate change issues. An apt example is the MetroTeatro initiative, a set of theatrical performances designed to explain the risks related to climate change and to communicate the need to foster urban adaptation to extreme climatic phenomena.

On the other hand, the LIFE BEWARE project monitoring visit – coordinated by its lead partner – the Santorso Municipality (Italy) – showed the achievements of the project, whose objective is to implement a strategy for adaptation to climate change and flood risk in urban and rural areas, encouraging citizens to adopt small-scale actions to collectively improve the safety and the hydraulic resilience of their territory. Based on the belief that the widespread use of small, sustainable, affordable hydraulic measures – the so-called Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRMs) – can generate more significant results than big infrastructural projects, 7 pilot NWRMs were developed in the Santorso and Marano Vicentino municipalities to foster the sustainable management of rainfalls in urban and agricultural areas.

In addition, the project is organizing several trainings for professionals as well as workshops, conferences, activities with local administrators, farmers and schools to improve collective knowledge on sustainable water management. Finally, to ensure the project continuity and boost its replicability, a wide network is being built through the creation of a European Community of Interest, currently already composed of 84 public, private and civil society entities united by an interest in the flood risk mitigation model proposed by LIFE BEWARE.

Life Metro Adapt – enhancing climate change adaptation strategies and measures in the metropolitan City of Milan, funded by the Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE), aims to foster the creation of a common well-structured governance related to climate change adaptation among the local authorities of the Metropolitan Area of Milan; and to produce tools for local authorities to implement locally-adapted and cost-effective climate change adaptation strategies.

LIFE BEWARE – Better Water Management for Advancing Resilient Communities in Europe, also funded by the LIFE Programme, focuses on the achievement of a global strategy for adaptation to climate change and flood risk in urban and rural areas, through the active involvement of the local communities of the Altovicentino area, in Italy.

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Visites de contrôle bien réussies pour LIFE Metro Adapt et LIFE BEWARE !

Juin 2020 a été un mois important pour deux des projets mis en œuvre conjointement par l’ALDA dans le cadre du sous-programme LIFE Action pour le climat : après un an et demi à compter du début de leur mise en œuvre, LIFE Metro Adapt et LIFE BEWARE ont effectué avec succès (en ligne !) leur deuxième visite de contrôle annuelle, présentant respectivement leurs résultats et leurs travaux en cours à Mme Yael Meroz et M. Paolo Rosa-Clot, représentants de NEEMO, l’équipe de contrôle externe du programme LIFE. Les représentants techniques et administratifs de chaque organisation partenaire ont également participé à la visite.

Le projet LIFE Metro Adapt, mené par la ville métropolitaine de Milan (Italie), a mis en avant la promotion de mesures visant à soutenir l’adaptation au changement climatique dans la région, ainsi que l’augmentation des températures et la concentration des fortes précipitations qu’il analyse. Plus précisément, le projet soutient la mise en œuvre de solutions basées sur la nature (NBS) telles que les toits verts, les murs verts, les forêts urbaines, les systèmes alternatifs de gestion des eaux de pluie et l’agriculture urbaine qui représentent l’une des principales stratégies pour atténuer les risques d’inondation et l’effet d'”îlot de chaleur” dans les zones urbaines.

À cet égard, deux études de faisabilité ont été réalisées et un catalogue de 20 NBS a été produit pour illustrer les solutions durables qui peuvent être mises en œuvre dans les zones urbaines et périurbaines. Comme tous les autres résultats du projet, ceux-ci sont rassemblés dans la plate-forme Metro Adapt à l’usage des administrations locales et des citoyens ; les partenaires du projet s’efforcent également de mettre en place un réseau national et international pour encourager la reproduction du projet et renforcer les initiatives ascendantes de sensibilisation des citoyens aux questions liées au changement climatique. L’initiative MetroTeatro, une série de représentations théâtrales conçues pour expliquer les risques liés au changement climatique et communiquer la nécessité de favoriser l’adaptation des villes aux phénomènes climatiques extrêmes, en est un bon exemple.

D’autre part, la visite de suivi du projet LIFE BEWARE – coordonnée par son partenaire principal – la municipalité de Santorso (Italie) – a montré les réalisations du projet, dont l’objectif est de mettre en œuvre une stratégie d’adaptation au changement climatique et aux risques d’inondation dans les zones urbaines et rurales, en encourageant les citoyens à adopter des actions à petite échelle pour améliorer collectivement la sécurité et la résilience hydraulique de leur territoire. Partant de la conviction que l’utilisation généralisée de petites mesures hydrauliques durables et abordables – les mesures dites de rétention naturelle de l’eau (MRN) – peut générer des résultats plus significatifs que les grands projets d’infrastructure, 7 MRN pilotes ont été développées dans les municipalités de Santorso et Marano Vicentino pour favoriser la gestion durable des précipitations dans les zones urbaines et agricoles.

En outre, le projet organise plusieurs formations pour les professionnels ainsi que des ateliers, des conférences, des activités avec les administrateurs locaux, les agriculteurs et les écoles afin d’améliorer les connaissances collectives sur la gestion durable de l’eau. Enfin, pour assurer la continuité du projet et stimuler sa reproductibilité, un vaste réseau est en cours de construction grâce à la création d’une Communauté européenne d’intérêt, actuellement déjà composée de 84 entités publiques, privées et de la société civile unies par un intérêt pour le modèle d’atténuation des risques d’inondation proposé par LIFE BEWARE.

Life Metro Adapt – améliorer les stratégies et mesures d’adaptation au changement climatique dans la ville métropolitaine de Milan, financé par le Programme pour l’environnement et l’action climatique (LIFE), vise à favoriser la création d’une gouvernance commune bien structurée liée à l’adaptation au changement climatique parmi les autorités locales de la région métropolitaine de Milan ; et à produire des outils pour les autorités locales afin de mettre en œuvre des stratégies d’adaptation au changement climatique adaptées au niveau local et rentables.

LIFE BEWARE – Better Water Management for Advancing Resilient Communities in Europe, également financé par le programme LIFE, se concentre sur la réalisation d’une stratégie globale d’adaptation au changement climatique et aux risques d’inondation dans les zones urbaines et rurales, grâce à la participation active des communautés locales de la région d’Altovicentino, en Italie.

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Visite di controllo ben riuscite per LIFE Metro Adapt e LIFE BEWARE!

Giugno 2020 è stato un mese importante per due dei progetti di ALDA co-implementati nell’ambito del sottoprogramma LIFE Climate Action: dopo un anno e mezzo dall’inizio della loro implementazione, LIFE Metro Adapt e LIFE BEWARE hanno completato con successo (online!) la seconda visita di controllo, che presenta i risultati e il lavoro in corso, rispettivamente alla Sig.ra Yael Meroz e al Sig. Paolo Rosa-Clot, rappresentanti di NEEMO, il gruppo di controllo esterno per il programma LIFE. Hanno partecipato alla visita anche i rappresentanti tecnici e amministrativi di ciascuna organizzazione partner.

Il progetto LIFE Metro Adapt, guidato dalla Città Metropolitana di Milano (Italia), ha messo in mostra la promozione di misure a supporto dell’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici nell’area, nonché l’aumento delle temperature e la concentrazione di forti piogge, al momento in fase di analisi. Più specificamente, il progetto sta supportando l’implementazione di soluzioni basate sulla natura (NBS) come tetti verdi, pareti verdi, foreste urbane, sistemi alternativi di gestione delle acque piovane e agricoltura urbana che rappresentano una delle principali strategie per mitigare il rischio di alluvione e il “calore isola “effetto nelle aree urbane.

A questo proposito, sono stati realizzati due studi di fattibilità ed è stato prodotto un catalogo di 20 NBS per illustrare le soluzioni sostenibili implementabili nelle aree urbane e peri-urbane. Come tutti gli altri risultati del progetto, anche questi sono raccolti nella piattaforma Metro Adapt, utilizzabile dalle amministrazioni locali e dai cittadini; anche i partner del progetto stanno lavorando per costruire una rete nazionale e internazionale per incoraggiare la replicabilità del progetto e migliorare le iniziative dal basso verso l’alto per la consapevolezza dei cittadini sulle questioni relative ai cambiamenti climatici. Un esempio appropriato è l’iniziativa MetroTeatro, un insieme di spettacoli teatrali progettati per spiegare i rischi legati ai cambiamenti climatici e per comunicare la necessità di favorire l’adattamento urbano ai fenomeni climatici estremi.

D’altra parte, la visita di controllo del progetto LIFE BEWARE – coordinata dal partner principale – il Comune di Santorso (Italia) – ha mostrato i risultati del progetto, il cui obiettivo è attuare una strategia di adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici e al rischio di alluvione nelle aree urbane e zone rurali, incoraggiando i cittadini ad adottare azioni su piccola scala per migliorare collettivamente la sicurezza e la resilienza idraulica del territorio. Basandosi sulla convinzione che l’uso diffuso di misure idrauliche di piccole dimensioni, sostenibili e convenienti – le cosiddette misure di ritenzione idrica naturale (NWRM) – possa generare risultati più significativi rispetto ai grandi progetti infrastrutturali, sono stati sviluppati 7 NWRM pilota nei Comuni di Santorso e Marano Vicentino per favorire la gestione sostenibile delle piogge nelle aree urbane e agricole.

Inoltre, è in corso l’organizzazione di diversi corsi di formazione per professionisti, nonché laboratori, conferenze, attività con amministratori locali, agricoltori e scuole per migliorare le conoscenze collettive sulla gestione sostenibile dell’acqua. Infine, per garantire la continuità del progetto e aumentarne la replicabilità, è in costruzione un’ampia rete attraverso la creazione di una Comunità europea di interesse, attualmente composta da 84 entità pubbliche, private e della società civile unite dall’interesse per il modello di mitigazione del rischio di alluvione proposto da LIFE BEWARE.

Life Metro Adapt – migliorare le strategie e le misure di adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici nella città metropolitana di Milano, finanziato dal Programme per l’Ambiente e l’Azione Climatica (LIFE), mira a favorire la creazione di una governance comune ben strutturata relativamente all’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici tra le autorità locali dell’Area Metropolitana di Milano; e a produrre strumenti per le autorità locali per implementare strategie di adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici adattate localmente ed economicamente vantaggiose.

LIFE BEWARE – una migliore gestione delle risorse idriche per la crescita delle comunità resilienti in Europa, anch’esso finanziato dal programma LIFE, si focalizza sul raggiungimento di una strategia globale per l’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici e al rischio di alluvione nelle aree urbane e rurali, attraverso il coinvolgimento attivo delle comunità locali della regione dell’Altovicentino, in Italia.

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Успешные контрольные посещения LIFE Metro Adapt и LIFE BEWARE!

Июнь 2020 года был важным месяцем для двух из совместно осуществляемых проектов ALDA в рамках подпрограммы LIFE Climate Action: через полтора года после начала их реализации LIFE Metro Adapt и LIFE BEWARE успешно завершили (онлайн!) свой второй ежегодный визит по мониторингу, представляющий свои результаты и текущую работу соответственно г-же Яэль Мероз и г-ну Паоло Роса-Клот, представителям NEEMO, команды внешнего мониторинга для программы LIFE. Технические и административные представители каждой партнерской организации также участвовали в этом визите.

Проект LIFE Metro Adapt, возглавляемый городом Миланом (Италия), продемонстрировал продвижение мер по поддержке адаптации к изменению климата в регионе, а также повышение температуры и концентрации сильных дождей, которые он анализирует. В частности, проект поддерживает внедрение Природоохранных Решений (ПР), таких как зеленые крыши, зеленые стены, городские леса, альтернативные системы управления дождевой водой и городское сельское хозяйство, которые представляют собой одну из основных стратегий по снижению риска наводнений и эффект ”теплый остров” в городских районах.

В этом отношении были реализованы два технико-экономических обоснования и был подготовлен каталог из 20 ПР, чтобы проиллюстрировать устойчивые решения, которые могут быть реализованы в городских и пригородных районах. Как и все другие результаты проекта, они собираются в Metro Adapt Platform для использования местными администрациями и гражданами; в то время как партнеры по проекту также работают над созданием национальной и международной сети, чтобы стимулировать воспроизводимость проекта и расширять инициативы снизу вверх для информирования граждан о проблемах изменения климата. Удачным примером является инициатива MetroTeatro, набор театрализованных представлений, предназначенных для объяснения рисков, связанных с изменением климата, и для информирования о необходимости содействия городской адаптации к экстремальным климатическим явлениям.

С другой стороны, визит по мониторингу проекта LIFE BEWARE, координируемый его ведущим партнером – муниципалитетом Санторсо (Италия), продемонстрировал достижения проекта, целью которого является реализация стратегии адаптации к изменению климата и риску наводнений в городских и сельские районах, поощряя граждан принимать небольшие меры для коллективного повышения безопасности и гидравлической устойчивости их территории. Исходя из убеждения, что широкое использование небольших, устойчивых и доступных по цене гидравлических мер – так называемых Мер по Удержанию Естественной Воды (МУЕВ) – может дать более существенные результаты, чем крупные инфраструктурные проекты, 7 пилотных МУЕВ были разработаны в Санторсо и Марано-Вичентино муниципалитетах для содействия устойчивому управлению ливнями в городских и сельскохозяйственных районах.

Кроме того, проект организует несколько тренингов для профессионалов, а также семинары, конференции, мероприятия с местными администраторами, фермерами и школами для улучшения коллективных знаний по устойчивому управлению водными ресурсами. Наконец, для обеспечения непрерывности проекта и повышения его воспроизводимости создается широкая сеть посредством создания Европейского сообщества интересов, в настоящее время уже состоящего из 84 государственных, частных и общественных организаций, объединенных интересом к модели снижения риска наводнений предложенный LIFE BEWARE.

Life Metro Adapt – совершенствование стратегий и мер по адаптации к изменению климата в столичном городе Милане, финансируемых Программой действий по окружающей среде и изменению климата (LIFE), направлено на содействие созданию общего хорошо структурированного управления, связанного с адаптацией к изменению климата среди местных властей столичной области Милана; и разработать инструменты для местных органов власти для реализации на местном уровне экономически эффективных стратегий адаптации к изменению климата.

LIFE BEWARE – Лучшее управление водными ресурсами для развития устойчивых сообществ в Европе, также финансируемое Программой LIFE, направлено на достижение глобальной стратегии по адаптации к изменению климата и риску наводнений в городских и сельских районах посредством активного участия местных сообществ в районе Альтовицентино, в Италии.

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Uspešne monitoring posete u okviru projekata “LIFE Metro Adapt” i “LIFE BEWARE”!

Jun 2020. bio je važan mesec za dva ALDA projekta koja su realizovana u okviru podprograma “LIFE Climate Action” : nakon godinu i po dana od početka njihove implementacije, “LIFE Metro Adapt” i “LIFE BEWARE” uspešno su završili (online!) drugu godišnju monitoring posetu, u kojoj su predstavili njihove rezultate i kontinuirani rad, odnosno rad gđe Jael Meroz i g. Paola Rosa-Klota, predstavnika NEEMO-a, eksternog tima za praćenje LIFE programa. Poseti su prisustvovali i tehnički i administrativni predstavnici svake partnerske organizacije.

Projekat “LIFE Metro Adapt” koji predvodi grad Milano (Italija), bavi se promocijom mera adaptacije klimatskim promenama u toj oblasti, kao i povećanje temperature i koncentracija obimnih padavina. Tačnije, projekat podržava implementaciju rešenja zasnovanih na prirodi (NBS – Nature-Based Solutions), poput zelenih krovova, zelenih zidova, urbanih šuma, alternativnih sistema upravlјanja kišnicom i urbane polјoprivrede koji predstavlјaju jednu od glavnih strategija za ublažavanje rizika od poplava i efekta „ostrva toplote“ u urbanim sredinama.

U tom smislu, dve studije izvodlјivosti su realizovane i katalog 20 NBS-ova koji su proizvedeni da ilustruju održiva rešenja koja se mogu primeniti u urbanim i polu-urbanim oblastima. Kao i svi drugi rezultati projekta, i ovi se prikuplјaju u Metro Adapt platformi za korišćenje od strane lokalnih uprava i građana; dok projektni partneri takođe rade na izgradnji nacionalne i međunarodne mreže kako bi podstakli repliciranje projekta i pobolјšali inicijative odozdo prema gore za svest građana o pitanjima klimatskih promena. Dobar primer je MetroTeatro inicijativa, kao skup pozorišnih predstava osmišlјenih da objasne rizike povezane sa klimatskim promenama i da opišu potrebu za podsticanjem urbanog prilagođavanja ekstremnim klimatskim pojavama.

Sa druge strane, monitoring poseta projekta “LIFE BEWARE” – u koordinaciji njenog vodećeg partnera – opštine Santorso (Italija) – pokazala je dostignuća projekta, čiji je cilј primena strategije za prilagođavanje klimatskim promenama i riziku od poplava u urbanim i ruralnim područjima, podstičući građane da preduzimaju manje akcije kako bi kolektivno pobolјšali sigurnost i hidrauličku otpornost svoje teritorije. Na osnovu verovanja da široka upotreba malih, održivih, pristupačnih hidrauličnih mera – takozvane prirodne mere zadržavanja vode (NWRM – Natural Water Retention Measures) – mogu da daju značajnie rezultate od velikih infrastrukturnih projekata, a 7 pilot NVRM-ova razvijeno je u Santorso i Marano Vićentino opštinama za podsticanje održivog upravlјanja padavinama u gradskim i polјoprivrednim oblastima.

Pored toga, projekat organizuje nekoliko treninga za profesionalce, kao i radionice, konferencije, aktivnosti sa lokalnim administratorima, polјoprivrednicima i školama za pobolјšanje kolektivnog znanja o održivom upravlјanju vodama. Konačno, da bi se osigurao kontinuitet projekta, stvara se široka mreža Evropske zajednice koju trenutno čine 84 javna , privatna i građanska društva ujedinjena zajedničkim interesom za model ublažavanja poplava, modelom predloženim kroz projekat “LIFE BEWARE”.

Life Metro Adapt – unapređenje strategija i mera za prilagođavanje klimatskim promenama u gradu Milanu, finansiranim je iz programa za zaštitu životne sredine i klime (LIFE), a ima za cilј da podstakne stvaranje zajedničke dobro strukturirane uprave lokalnih vlasti grada Milana, vezane za prilagođavanje klimatskim promenama i da proizvedu alate za lokalne organe za implementaciju strategija prilagođavanja klimatskim promenama.

LIFE BEWARE – bolje upravljanje vodama za unapređenje otpornih zajednica u Evropi, koje se takođe finansira iz programa “LIFE”, fokusira se na postizanje globalne strategije za prilagođavanje klimatskim promenama i riziku od poplava u urbanim i ruralnim sredinama, kroz aktivno uklјučivanje lokalnih zajednica oblasti Altovićentino u Italiji.

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(LIFE MetroAdapt, LIFE Beware) !زياراتمراقبةناجحةلمشروعيلايفمتروأدابتولايفبوا

 اكتسى شهر جوان (حزيران) 2020 أهمية كبرى بالنسبة لمشروعين مشتركين تتولى ألدا إدارتهما في إطار البرنامج الثانوي لنشاط لايف المناخي: بعد مرور سنة ونصف على انطلاق تنفيذهما, نجح مشروعا لايف مترو أدابت (LIFE Metro Adapt ) و لايف بوار(LIFE BEWARE ) في اتمام (بواسطة شبكة الإنترنت) زيارة المراقبة السنوية الثانية وتقديم نتائج الزيارة والعمل المتواصل إلى كل من السيدة يائيلميروزوالسيدباولوروزا–كلو, تباعا, وممثلي نيمو (NEEMO), وفريق المراقبة الخارجي  لبرنامج لايف. ساهم في هذه الزيارة كذلك كل من الممثلين التقنيين والإداريين من المنظمات الشريكة.

مكن مشروع LIFE Metro Adapt, الذييتمتحتإدارةمدينةميلانوالمتروبولية (إيطاليا), منالترويجللاجراءاتالداعيةإلىالتأقلممعالتغيراتالمناخيةودعمهافيالمنطقة, إضافةإلىالجهودالتيتركزعلىارتفاعدرجةالحراة      والكميات الهائلة من تهاطل الأمطار. يهدف المشروع, بشكل خاص, إلى دعم عملية تنفيذ الحلولالمعتمدةعلىالطبيعة, على غرار الأسقف الخضراء والجدران الخضراء والغابات الحضرية والحلول البديلة لإدارة مياه المطر والزراعة في المناطق الحضرية التي تمثل أهم الاستراتيجيات المعتمدة للتخفيف من مخاطر الفيضانات وتأثير “جزيرة الحرارة” داخل المناطق الحضرية.

في هذا السياق, تم إنجاز عدد 2 دراسة جدوى ودليل 20 للحلول المعتمدة على الطبيعة بهدف تجسيم الحلول المستدامة التي يمكن تطبيقها في المناطق الحضرية وشبه الحضرية. تماما مثل ما هو الشأن لكافة مخرجات المشروع الأخرى, يتم جمع هذه الحلول داخل منصة Metro Adapt ثم اسهغلالها من قبل الإداريين والمواطنين المحليين, في حين يتكفل شركاء المشروع بتحسين مستوى السلامة والتأقلم مع الموارد المائية داخل منطقهم الترابية. إنطلاقا من الرأي السائد بأن التنفيذ الموسع للاجراءات المائية على مستويات محدودة ومستدامة وبتكلفة معقولة – ما يعرف باسم اجراءات الحفاظ على موارد المياه الطبيعية – يمكنها تأمين نتائج أفضل من مشاريع البنية التحتية الضخمة, تم اعتماد عدد 7 مشاريع نموذجية حول اجراءات الحفاظ على موارد المياه الطبيعية في بلديتي كل من سنتورسو ومرانو فيشانتينو وذلك بهدف تعزيز منظومة الإدارة المستدامة لمياه الأمطار في المناطق الحضرية والزراعية.

إضافة إلى ذلك, يتولى القائمون على المشروع تنظيم العديد من الدورات التدريبية لفائدة المهنيين وإقامة ورش العمل والمحاضرات والأنشطة مع الأطراف المحلية بارساء شبكة وطنية ودولية تشجع على استنساخ نفس المشروع في مناطق أخرى وتشجيع المبادرات, المقترحة من الأسفل إلى الأعلى, لتعزيز التوعية لدى أصحاب المصلحة بأهمية الاعتناء بمسائل التغيرات المناخية. في سياق متصل, يمكن ذكر المثال الهادف حول مبادرة متروتياترو(MetroTeatro), وهي عبارة عن جملة من العروض المسرحية صممت لتسليط الأضواء على المخاطر المتعلقة بالتغيرات المناخية وإبرازالحاجة إلى التواصل الملائم للتشجيع على التأقلم الحضري مع الظواهر المناخية القصوى.

من ناحية أخرى, مكنت زيارة المراقبة في إطار مشروع LIFE Metro Adapt – التي تتم بالتنسيق مع الشريك في الشمروع- بلدية سانتورسو (إيطاليا) – من إبراز النتائج الحاصلة في إطار المشروع والتي تهدف أساسا إلى تنفيذ استراتيجية التأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية وضرورة التوقي من مخاطر الفياضانات في المناطق الحضرية والزراعية, إضافة إلى تشجيع المواطنين على اعتماد أنشطة صغيرة الحجم تمكن كلا من الإداريين والمزارعين والمدرسين من تحسين المعرفة المشتركة حول منظومة الإدارة المستدامة للموارد المائية. وأخيرا, يهدف المشروع إلى توضيح طريقة استدامته ومضاعفة امكانية استنساخه في مناطق أخرى, وذلك من خلال الشبكة الموسعة التي يتم بعثها بواسطة مجموعةمصلحةأوروبية, تتركب حاليا من عدد 84 وحدة تنتمي إلى القطاع العام والقطاع الخاص والمجتمع المدني وتجمعها روح الحرص على الحد من مخاطر الفياضانات كما هو مقفترح في إطار مشروع لايف بوار (LIFE BEWARE).

 يهدف  Life Metro Adapt – تعزيز استراتيجيات واجراءات التأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية في مدينة ميلانو المتروبولية, الذي يتم ت من برنامج البيئة والتدخل المناخي (LIFE), إلى تعزيز المبادرة الداعية إلى بعث منظومة حوكمة مشتركة ومهيكلة وتعتمد على التأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية بين السلطات المحلية في المنطقة المتروبولبة بمدينة ميلانو, وكذلك إلى توفير الأدوات الضرورية التي تمكن السلطات المحلية من تنفيذ استراتيجيات التأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية تكون مقبولة على المستوى المحلي ومجدية من ناحية الفاعلية.

LIFE BEWARE – منظومة أفضل لإدارة الموارد المائية لفائدة مجتمعات متقدمة وصامدة في أوروبا, يحظى كذلك بتمويل من برنامج  LIFE ويركز على الاستراتيجية العالمية للتأقلم مع التغيرات المناخية والوقاية من مخاطر الفيضانا