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STAND-UP strives to create a comprehensive and holistic counter-hate crime framework that covers all components of the counter-hate process (reporting-investigating-prosecution-prevention (RIPP), embedded within a framework of victim support. In this way, the project ensures the complementarity of the work of different actors, leading to a streamlined and more efficient RIPP cycle, better victim support, and higher levels of trust between CSOs, law enforcement, judiciary, and victims.

Open Source INTelligence (OSINT) is used to understand hateful sentiments and speech in localised contacts, helping public authorities and CSOs to identify areas of intervention, at-risk groups, and the weight of hateful sentiments expressed online as an indicator of physical acts of hate offline, all multi-factorally disaggregated. A platform is developed for interagency data exchange. Activities to raise awareness of STAND-UP and its outcomes, as well as to heighten awareness of hate crime and its impact on victims, are carried out throughout the project.

OBJECTIVES

Among the objectives

  • Enhance multi-agency cooperation in countering hate crime by establishing harmonised definitions of hate crime, embedded within a blueprint framework for cooperation.
  • Standardise reporting procedures through the co-design and validation of a reporting forms for (1) law enforcement agencies and (2) CSOs/NGOs.
  • Deepen relevant actors’ understanding of the phenomena of hate speech and hate crime, including the sentiments behind them on a local level through enhanced monitoring tools and skills. STAND-UP employs open-source intelligence-led monitoring mechanisms, piloted in two separate Italian municipalities.
  • Strengthen victim support through awareness and skills on “sensitive investigation” and prosecution through which “victims are recognised and treated in a respectful, sensitive, tailored, professional and non-discriminatory manner” (Art 1.1 of the Victims’ Rights Directive), focusing on unbiased reporting and investigation procedures and LEA-CSO support networks, strengthening Art 8. of the same.
  • Design and implement training for CSOs, LEAs, and prosecutors and judges on reporting, investigating, prosecuting, and preventing (RIPP) hate crimes and discrimination, with parallel victim support.
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The PACIFY-D project will be working towards providing innovative training opportunities to young people and establishing Country Info Points as local learning centres for youth education, developing guidance on the organisation and support of the operation of such environments.

The purpose is primarily to strengthen democratic attitudes through civic engagement and civic participation.
Young Local Ambassadors will engage in non-formal learning activities around public diplomacy, also using cultural diplomacy tools.

OBJECTIVES

Among the main objectives of the project:

• Strengthen young people’s sense of initiative,
• Educate young people on issues of diversity, cultural differences, political representation
• Confront interpersonal and intergroup/national stereotypes and enhance intercultural understanding
• Promote better knowledge about the situation of young people and inform youth policies in Europe and beyond
• Enhance transfer of knowledge between young people, Civil Society/Youth organisations, young ambassadors/ex-pats and policymakers

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HEY project addresses the challenges of young people, especially those with fewer opportunities. With the COVID-19 crisis, the current situation may lead to social exclusion in the fields of education, labour market, living, health and participation in the society.

Thus, the HEY project, through the collaboration of 7 partner organisations, proposes a positive youth development approach focused on making young individuals stronger and more resourceful, as reflected in their behaviour and mind-set.

OBJECTIVES

Among the main objectives of the project:

  • Presenting data on how the pandemic is amplifying existing vulnerabilities among youth, and how youth work responds to the needs,
  • Fostering the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities, returnees and others to become active citizens;
  • Empowering youth workers to build synergies and equip them with digital tools to address youth challenges
  • Up-skilling through the provision of an open-access source of e-learning training and
  • Supporting young people through mentoring and peer-to-peer consultation
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The NEVERMORE project is determined to support excellence in research on climate science and climate policy. Focus is on the modelling theory to take a significant step forward to overcome the current silo approach in favour of an integrated assessment one for evaluating impacts, risks and interactions of climate change across sectors and adaptation and mitigation strategies towards a climate neutral and resilience society, relying on the multiple feedbacks that occur between the variables involved in climate change.

OBJECTIVES

The NEVERMORE project aims to develop an integrated common assessment framework (for modelling, simulating and evaluating impacts of both climate change and policy measures) tailored to the needs of different stakeholders and end-users (public and private actors, decision-makers and citizens).

It will include information on climate, Earth Systems, human and impacts models in a robust, reliable, detailed and transparent way, for delivering multi-sectoral climate impact assessments under consistent and integrated socio-economic and climate scenarios.

The NEVERMORE approach integrates the information from physical modelling of impacts and risk analysis methodologies and aligns them across different scales: from national, EU and global scales to local and regional scales via five representative case studies that represent various socio-ecological systems.

NEVERMORE helps to better understand the interactions between climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation options to deliver sound technical and policy recommendations towards a climate neutral and resilient society.

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PEACE Education aims to create an inclusive learning environment and to reduce violence by providing the necessary skills and knowledge to teachers and other educators to integrate Peace Education into their respective teaching experiences, providing students with the appropriate vocabulary, opportunities for practice and peaceful problem solving-skills.

OBJECTIVES

Among the main objectives of the project:

  • Provide teachers and students with a conceptual understanding of peace education.
  • Acquire a holistic and critical understanding of the theory and practice of peace
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  • Search for and identify the best ways to teach peace.
  • Review evaluation studies on the impact and effectiveness of peace education.
  • Model, experience and practice peaceful classrooms and healthy group dynamics.
  • Become critical learners and reflective peace practitioners.
  • Gain an appreciation of the foundations of just and peaceful societies.
  • Encourage positive action and non-violent conflict resolution in society.
  • Enhance students’ intellectual flexibility, creativity and problem-solving capacities.

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The 2019 EU parliamentary elections confirmed a further rise of support for Eurosceptic parties in Europe as well as a general loss of confidence in politics both at national and at EU level. By stimulating democratic discussions between Eurosceptic and pro-EU political forces, the project attempts to promote the idea that the political polarisation within EU societies is threatening the internal stability and should be avoided.

Therefore, in line with the Europe for Citizens’ programme, the project aims both at increasing political involvement of the European citizens and providing them with tools and knowledge to better understand the political debates around the future of Europe.

OBJECTIVES

The general objective of the project is to foster European citizenship and to improve the conditions for civic and democratic participation at Union level.

These goals will be achieved by putting forward three main activities:

Creation of a website “Observatory tool”:
The website will provide users with an in-depth analysis of the state of play of the Eurosceptic political parties in Europe and their positions. The “Observatory tool” not only will make use of an intuitive graphic to allow an immediate comparison between the different Eurosceptic forces but it will also include an interactive map of Europe and a short summary of each political parties (history, main ideas of the party, etc.).

Events across Europe:
Several cities across Europe have been carefully selected on the basis of specific challenges to tackle (es: a Mediterranea city and migration, Lens and deinstitutionalization, etc.) . The event will be divided in two parts:

  • A citizens’ workshop in which several groups will have a solution-oriented debate to provide practical recommendations that will be collected in a political manifesto;
  • A round-table between local practitioners, academic experts, civil society members representing different political opinions (both pro-EU and Eurosceptic).

Publications:
A massive dissemination activity will be put forward by all the partners. Academic articles, papers on the most recent trends on the European political scene, the citizens’ manifesto, will be available on the project website.

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    The 2030 Youth Vision project has officially started!

    On January 12 & 13, 2023, the Kick-Off Meeting of the project took place in Lousada (Portugal), where the consortium was kindly hosted by the Municipality of Lousada.

    The first transnational partner meeting represented a great opportunity for the six partners to get to know each other and work on the next steps of the project.

    Different challenges are faced by young people in the context of globalisation (demographic and climate changes, artificial intelligence, democratic disaffection or pandemics etc.) and very often they are left out from participatory processes at all levels.

    2030 Youth Vision project, based on the wide experience of project partners on youth participation in civic and democratic life, aims to increase the active participation of young people, with a focus on those belonging to disadvantaged groups, in the co-production of local policies for the achievement of SDGs.

    It is of great importance that the voice of youth is effectively considered in the process and that young people are protagonists in the achievement of these goals.

    2030 Youth Vision project aims to increase the active participation of young people, with a focus on those belonging to disadvantaged groups

    During this two-days meeting, the consortium discussed the organisational, management and financial aspects of the 2030 Youth Vision project, as well as the communication and dissemination strategy to be implemented.

    This Kick-Off meeting has been a great opportunity to lay the foundation of the project and build a strong partnership.

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    SHARED GREEN DEAL brings together 22 leading organisations from across the EU that cover core elements of the European Green Deal cross cutting priorities such as civil society, democracy, gender, energy, environment, circular economy, and innovation.
    SHARED GREEN DEAL will span all EU Green Deal policy areas in:

    • Undertaking 6 streams of social experiments (each in 4 different EU or H2020-Associated countries
    • Conducting socio-cultural comparisons of collective practices and individual behaviours (and influences),across different European contexts
    • Developing an ambitious multi-stakeholder Shared Green Deal Network
    • Providing both reactive policy insights for the short-term and proactive policy insights for the longer-term. (e.g. findings will be used to develop a Green Deal – Policy Tracker, to monitor Member State implementation of EU Green Deal policies

    OBJECTIVES

    SHARED GREEN DEAL’s core goal is to stimulate shared actions on Green Deal initiatives across Europe, by providing Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) tools to support the implementation of 8 EU Green Deal policy areas, at the local and regional level.

    Through the Project’s broad membership-based network partners, social experiments in 24 European locations will be aligned with current strategic priorities of on-the-ground policy, NGO, business and citizen groups.

    The resulting SHARED GREEN DEAL Network will build capacity, maximise impacts, and enable longer term system change throughout the 2020s and beyond.

    GREEN DEAL PRIORITIES

    SHARED GREEN DEAL is structured around lessons from a set of 24 social experiments that target six specific priority Green Deal topics all of which contribute to the climate action and zero pollution ambitions of the Green Deal. They are:

    • Clean Energy
    • Circular Economy
    • Efficient Renovations
    • Sustainable Mobility
    • Sustainable Food
    • Preserving Biodiversity

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    The project aims to improve awareness about the importance of developing multi-disciplinary skills in the policy making field, primarily addressing students, but also decision-makers, urban planners, NGOs, CSOs, social workers and scientists.

    The goal of P-CUBE is to build an educational strategy game (the Policy Game) designed to teach the theory and practice of public policy making to different groups of people, principally students. The prototype of the game will be developed during the project, and it will be presented to different audiences in various national and international settings. The game will then be modified to incorporate their comments and suggestions.

    Besides the project partners, P-CUBE benefits from the support and contribution of the following associated partners:

    • University of Teramo (Italy)
    • University of Padova (Italy)
    • Institute for Social Research (Italy)

    OBJECTIVES

    The basic assumption, supported by the literature on Public Policy studies, is that the dynamics for policy making processes are similar within different policy fields, yet the set of actors varies from one policy to another. The Policy Game, therefore, has two objectives:

    • Show how decisions in the public sphere are taken and what kinds of decisional strategies can be employed by the promoters of policy innovation.
    • Help players/students/trainees become familiar with the specificities of the policy fields in which they are involved.
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    THE:PLACE – Türkiye Hand in hand with Europe: Programme for Local Authorities and Civil society Exchange aims to build up lasting Turkey – European Union networks of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that work on local issues, promoting an exchange aimed to increase their capacity to create meaningful impact in their respective areas of work.

    OBJECTIVES

    THE:PLACE programme aims to favour the empowerment of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Local Authorities (LAs) as actors of local development, through specific capacity building, peer learning and joint cooperation on co-designed common projects.

    The programme seeks to create quadrilateral partnerships composed of 1 CSO based in Türkiye associated with 1 LA + 1 CSO based in the EU associated with 1 LA.

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    The project wants to encourage women in joining participation mechanisms while mainstreaming gender equality at the local level. The project foresees the active involvement of 14 pilot provinces or district municipalities from every regions of Türkiye, which will work to strengthen gender equality during the 12-month project period, under the guidance of the CEMR’s “European Charter of Equality in Local Life”.

    OBJECTIVES

    The project aims at promoting municipalities for the establishment of Local Equality Action Plans, implementing the necessary strategies for including women into urban life and local decision-making processes.

    It also aims at establishing Gender Equality offices in the pilot Municipalities, transferring the Turkish law od 6284 “Protect family and prevent violence against women” and the Istanbul Convention to the citizens, implementing gender-based budgeting techniques and designing permanent monitoring and evaluation mechanisms based on these results.

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    The project AVATAR has been created to foster the development of digital culture and the adoption of new digital services for citizens, enterprises, CSOs and public administration. It has five areas of intervention: training, socio-medical, business, third sector and public administration.
    Overall there are eleven municipalities of the Alto Vicentino (Isola Vicentina, Malo, Marano Vicentino, Monte di Malo, San Vito di Leguzzano, Santorso, Thiene, Torrebelvicino, Valdagno, Villaverla and Zugliano); 4 technical partners: Pasubio Tecnologia, Wikimedia Italia, MegaHub, Alda+ and 48 supporters

    OBJECTIVES

    The objectives of the project are to:

    • create in the Northern Vicenza area Open Innovation Laboratories as places of active meeting and participation (Innovation LAb).
    • foster a participatory approach to the creation and modernisation of digital public services, through the Digital Gyms
    • Disseminate the culture of open data of public bodies among citizens and enterprises
    • Increase the number of citizens using Internet and their awareness about the potential of digital technology.
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    The project promotes principles of good governance with a view to effective and responsive performance of the local government units in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project will empower the capacities of local authorities (elected leaders and civil servants) and civil society in implementing participative processes.

    Together they will identify concrete problems of the community that will find their solutions thanks to the participative approach. The project will therefore build capacities and solve problems, by consolidating the approach in the years to come.

    OBJECTIVES

    The projects aims at

    • Creating stronger links to citizens by engaging in public policy process.
    • Reaching out to society as a whole including marginalised groups and grass root communities and encouraging civic activism and public participation in policy-making.
    • Supporting capable, transparent and accountable Local Authorities and effective Civil Society Organisations.

    In addition, Local Authorities have enabling policies and rules for grass root organisations and civic initiatives; while CSOs created network for coalition-building for increased impact in campaigning and advocacy.

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    The great international adventure of CAMELOT  project (Cities And Metropolis in Europe Laboring Onward Together) ended on Thursday 16 February at Palazzo Isimbardi, the institutional headquarter of the Metropolitan City of Milan.

    “Today we’re concluding this project, which has been able to promote eight events and lots of local activities, despite the pandemics” – stated Mr. Purcaro,  General Director and Secretary of the Metropolitan City of Milan.  “CAMELOT has favoured the cooperation between active citizens and public bodies” – he continued “in the process of building a metropolitan European identity”.

    “CAMELOT has favoured the cooperation between active citizens and public bodies in the process of building a metropolitan European identity” – Mr. Purcaro, General Director and Secretary of the Metropolitan City of Milan

    Hence, the added value of this project lays on the networking activities implemented among partners, in terms of  exchanging experiences and good practices on the management of European funds, and improving the correct use of the latter. Thus, accessing fundings at EU level is a valuable way to support local bodies (Metropolitan Cities in this case) to empower citizens and improve their living conditions also in marginalised neighbourhoods.

    Specifics and details of the targeted areas are available on the project website, which collects all the results and events achieved and implemented within the 36 months-length of the project itself. In addition, in order to encourage citizens’ awareness and interest in this crucial topic, the outputs of the project are available online in different languages.

    Overall, this final event contributed to achieve the aim of the project: encourage democratic and civic participation of citizens at a European level, while creating a network of Metropolitan Cities and fostering sharing of good practices and knowledge on European funds.

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    The project has been developed in the framework of, and financed by, the Europe for Citizens Programme 2014-2020.  Details: 148.680 euro available, 36 months of work, 9 European partners and 500 people involved

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    “What protections and assistance does democracy, in its most direct form, require to survive and thrive?”

    This will be the question that experts, Organisations and Associations, promoters of direct democracy worldwide, will try to answer during the  “2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy”,  which will take place in Mexico City from February 27, until March 4, 2023. 

    This year’s Global Forum represents a great opportunity for Mexico and Latin America, not only for the importance and weight of the topics discussed, but also because it will be the first one held in the Western Hemisphere after more than 10 years. 

    Organised by a consortium led by the Independent Electoral Institute, the Forum will analyse how the new and innovative constitution of the city-state will impact democracy globally. In addition, it will dig into the situation of direct democracy in Mexico and Latin America, exploring its promises and perils. 

    The Global Forum will also examine, through the intervention of various speakers, the infrastructure required for a strong democracy, discussing concrete opportunities for protecting and expanding democracy worldwide. 

    ALDA, and its member Labsus, will take part in the 2023 Global Forum contributing to the support of democracy worldwide

    ALDA, being committed to the promotion of democracy and citizen participation since its establishment, will take part in the event together with its member Labsus, the Laboratory for Subsidiarity, represented by its vice-president, Daniela Ciaffi, to bring an additional value given from the expertise of the latter in the field of democratic processes. 

    Labsus’ aim, in a nutshell, is to educate citizens about the opportunities at their disposal to contribute in giving a solution to issues of common interest, together with public administration. 

    With a Panel titled “Mechanisms for citizen participation in key sectors (health, security, construction and food)” which will take place on Friday, March 3, 2023, ALDA and Labsus, together with IDDECO Internacional,  will contribute to the discussion by hosting a session on the tools that citizens can use to participate in the democratic dialogue. 

    An active, responsible and participatory citizenship is the key for a long-lasting democratic system. 

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    Discover here the six-days long programme!  

    Find out more about the Global Forum here.

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    Focus on the flagship initiative:

    strengthening Local Democracy Agencies in Ukraine
    #westandwithukraine

    No one should be left behind, especially under war circumstances. The role of the civil society and local authorities in building peace, reconstruction and counterbalancing the atrocities caused by the Russian invasion is fundamental. Institutions, at the same time, should also work in cooperation among each other and together with the representatives of the local communities to be resilient in this war. 

    ALDA is working exactly to achieve this aim: bridging institutions and CSOs together to create a network of stakeholders that will reconstruct Ukraine, day by day. Benefitting from the deep knowledge of Ukrainian society, and from the initiatives already implemented with both LDA Dnipro and LDA Mariupol, during the latest mission to Ukraine Ms. Valmorbida – ALDA Secretary General; Mr. Coica – Eastern Partnership Coordinator; and Mr. Ostrowski, in charge of the development of the LDAs in Ukraine, met different stakeholders with whom further co-create a path for reconstruction and resilience in Ukraine.

    “We visited Bucha, and the city Mayor, Mr. Fedoruk, expressed the interest in becoming member of ALDA” stated Ms. Valmorbida. 

    “Bucha is ready to become not only a member of the Association, but also to open an office in the city” –

    Mr. Anatoliy Fedoru Mayor of Bucha

    Moreover, the mission allowed the ALDA Delegation to reconnect with Ms. Lomakina – Representative of LDA Mariupol, and other stakeholders like the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The latter was among the main promoter of the trainings, developed within the programme “Platform for Good Governance and Environmental Protection”* and delivered by Ms. Valmorbida, back in 2021. 

    The bond with the city of Mariupol is profound, long, and so enriching that the Mariupol State University has also started the process to become an ALDA Member. Visited during the February Mission, the University, now located in Kyiv clearly due to war, not only is providing support to students but it is also hosting the LDA itself. The Association cannot be more enthusiastic of its cooperation with Ukrainian Local Authorities and Universities. The team also had the chance to meet again the Mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boichenko. 

    In addition, ALDA Delegation met Mr. Sergey Chernov, President Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils with whom they discussed:

    • ALDA’s activities in Ukraine and determining priorities in providing assistance to Ukrainian local self-government;
    • The roadmap of cooperation in engaging local governments of EU countries to support Ukraine;
    • Possibilities to further openings of ALDA representative offices in Kharkiv and other regions of Ukraine.

    Finally, crucial meetings took place at the Polish, Italian and French Embassies thus to echo the voices of people living in Ukraine, while, at the same time, contributing to cooperation with governmental institutions.

    “We are a global alliance of local authorities and civil society to support good local governance and we stand with Ukraine” concluded ALDA Secretary General, testifying the endless commitment of the Association for Ukraine, for peace and democracy.

    This week the commitment continues with the organisation of the LDA Mariupol partners meeting in Gdansk (Poland) on 24 February 2022. ALDA calls for more partners to join the initiative:


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    *Programme financed by UNDP in Ukraine

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    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members
    Bucha and Mariupol State University are ready to become ALDA Members

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    The so named Gruppo Scintilla (Spark Group) is a participatory process involving inhabitants of a neighbourhood of Vicenza (IT) in the decision-making process regarding its future. The project is focused in a highly multi-ethnic neighbourhood located close to the Central Station, facing serious issues related to social integration and illegal trafficking. The start a participatory process is to co-design a shared vision of the future of the neighbourhood, involving citizens in the co-designing process, and implementing activities in the area.

    OBJECTIVES

    The participatory process is aimed to redevelop an underserved and vulnerable neighbourhood of Vicenza. On the one hand a set of public consultations were implemented with the aim of defining the problems, collecting proposals towards a possible solution and developing citizens’ sense of ownership and responsibility towards the problem.

    On the other hand, several local initiatives were organised to improve the life of people living in the neighbourhood in the short-term and create a sense of community (events for children, inter-generational parties involving local businesses, theatre courses, participatory budgeting initiatives, etc.).

    The process has brought out the difficulties of the neighbourhood (safety, traffic and urban decay) but also the great opportunities (place of life and passage, multi-ethnicity, urban context, food district and places of excellence) and proposes to guide the destiny of this neighbourhood towards the following direction: the use of a positive slogan: “The Place To Be“, to reverse the negative meaning referring to the neighbourhood in a positive perspective.

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    Born from the statement that it is becoming rarer and rarer for people to be in touch with their local communities and to create networks that are both local and offline in today’s world, PIECE seeks to establish and empower community spaces and activities that can help people connect and build networks within their local communities.

    OBJECTIVES

    PIECE aims to address the needs of communities in Europe through the training, education, and empowerment of community workers. Through this project, beneficiaries will enhance their skills and employability and in turn enhance the social inclusion, skills, and employability of the people they will train, involve in their activities, and come in contact with thus creating a virtuous circle of empowerment.

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