IDEA is a project based on mutual exchanges of experiences among different twinning links, encouraging intercultural dialogue (youth mobility, intergenerational exchanges and social solidarity), and the creation of a future permanent network. Two conferences on intercultural dialogue lasted 3 days and took place in Italy and Czech Republic.
A website has been created with all the documents produced in the two conferences, publications and the elaboration of a CD room. The promotion of the project IDEA though the involvement of the respective regional offices based in Brussels, the MEPs from the involved regions, and different representation offices settle in Rome and in Brussels bring an innovative way of dissemination of the results.

www.lazio.anci.it

The main aim of the project "Out-live:Testimony to the History" is to remember Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. 8 partners' organisations participate to this project. The implementation of the project involved educational and artistic workshops runt in Naples and in Krakow. This project facilitated a transfer of knowlegment and reflection between young generations and representative of older generations including prisoners of extermination camps. The dissemination of the project is done using the radio, television and internet forums. Leaflets, DVD and studies on the topic have been prepared and contributed to the dissemination of the project.

The methodology used is interesting and new, during the implementation of the project has taken place theatre and artistic performances: a new methodology for the Action 4. Different tools have been used for the dissemination of the project: radio, television, papers, creation of DVD, and the use of internet forums.
www.cracovitalia.org

"Participation 2.0- open conference" is a project which aim was to bring together international and national alternative radio and media producers, NGO activist, politicians, students, researchers and other interested public to review the role of participation of the media in Europe (mainly focused on the meaning, impact and challenges that arise to the media in relation to the political participation and the European citizenship).
The target group is very large: radio and media producers, NGO activist, politicians, students, researchers and other interested public. The methodology used; using new technology as web 2.0 applications and "Social Software Internet applications" (interactive surfer; bogs, interactive presentations, online conferences, online discussions though chats, etc).

www.radiofabrik.at

The aim of the project " International artistic workshop for people with disabilities, with the participation of 4 EU countries" is to preserve traditions and protect the nature though the implementation of different activities such as an education farm programme, artistic activities in the field of wood-carving camps (ancient HU tradition) and a programme of water observation about the state of Danube. The target group is people with disabilities, civil society organisations, cultural institutions, schools and education institutions and media.Big media coverage of the project is done (journals, web portals, local TV and radio). Online exhibitions of the creations of the wood-carving camps to allow to all interested people to visit them. Travelling exhibitions after the project has been organized in the four participating countries 2 month in each country (mainly with the professional photos about the works of arts to be exhibited in schools and educational institutes).

www.harmoniabudapest.com

Meeting between 7 Italian municipalities and 6 Swedish municipalities in order to develop an exchange of good practices with the aim of promoting the concept of sustainable socio-economic, cultural and human development. Seminars on heritage and Europe, study visits and workshops are the main activities of the project. The topic itself is innovative: the EU sustainable development strategy within the concept of European Citizenship. Some of the activities implemented are original, like the participation in the historical winter market organizing expositions of artistic handicraft.

www.jokkmokk.se

Proposal prepared under the name "New democratic toolbox for new Institutions" by a Belgian applicant (ECAS) active since 1990. The duration of the project: 9 months; 5 participating countries: Belgium (applicant) plus Bulgaria, Hungary, UK and Latvia. The activities located in all the participating countries; i.e. Sofia and its regions, Budapest and its regions, London and its regions, Riga and its regions, and Brussels. It is mainly focus on creating a major innovative input ("democratic toolbox") to be presented to the new EP and to the new College of Commissioners. There will be 4 national 1-day citizens' panels of 50 citizens in UK, Bulgaria, Hungary and Latvia, followed by "European Panel" of 30 representatives (5 per country). Citizens will have the opportunity in the national and European level panels to deliberate and propose their ideas on the democratic shape that the EU should take from 2009, and these ideas will be presented to the European Parliament and to the new colleagues of Commissioners. The aim it is innovative and creative and allows to state ideas/opinion from the roots to the institutions and to reinforce the link and knowlegment of the European citizens with the EU.

www.ecas-citizens.eu

The Andalusian Training Research and Educational Assistance Foundation (AFIES) and their partners from FR, UK, MT, CY and IT propose to run a project that targets citizens, entities, organisations and policy makers and seeks to encourage intercultural dialogue and to get useful recommendations for policy makers as well as to increase citizens' awareness on EU and active European citizenship. Five citizens' panels in each partner country with a total of 600 persons will be established, the conclusions and recommendations will be evaluated by experts and communicated to stakeholders and policy makers on local, regional, national and EU level. The innovative methodology to be used is the "two-way dialogue" between entities and citizens. The action plan includes steering committees and study visit, report on information needs on EU, discussion meetings and working groups (panels), report on recommendations, meeting with policy makers and website.

www.afies.com

The goal of the project "Intervisions urbaines: 4 jours et 4 nuits pour un cour" is to work on the elaboration of a film using familiar video cameras to create a fiction movie of 4 minutes incorporating a number of constraints to foster the debate, the action and the reflection on history in Europe. The video will be made more or less by 60 people organized on intergenerational teams of at least 3 different European countries. The video is focused on the history, the population, the local figures, and the local organizations, and so on from Mureaux (France). The elaboration of the film (the writing workshops, the preparation of the scenarios, the video montage, and so on) is used as a tool to discover and understand the world.

madeleine.georganidis@wanadoo.fr

Le projet 14e Université de la Formation, de l'Education et de l'Orientation/MPS Aquitaine, l'Europe de la formation: Ambitions communautaires et réalisations concrètes, est composé de conférences plénières, ateliers et tables rondes et de 4 espaces qui ont lieu pendant 3 jours: Espace Projets Européens, avec l'assistance technique aux porteurs de projets; Espace de Mobilité européen avec l'assistance et information au grand public autour des questions de mobilités; Espace Partenaires composé de forums et stands des collectivités territoriaux, des services et structures liées à l'information sur la formation et autres; Espace Libraire avec ouvrages clés de débat, publications des intervenants des débats, documents audiovisuels, reportages, postes informatiques connectés, etc. La diversité des activités prévues, et l'assemblage de ces activités pendant 3 jours dans un même endroit aussi que l'utilisation des différents outils de communication (papier; flyers, plaquettes, site web, fond documentaire, communiqué de presse, diffusion à la presse local télévisée, etc. rendent le projet créatif et innovateur.

www.mps.ufeo.eu

www.mps.ufeo.org