Our Social Europe

Proposed Impact  

1. The project will develop a methodology for engaging the civic participation of citizens from disadvantaged areas of cities in influencing the city development plans of their local authorities through a structured methodology of civic participation based on European strategies (Europe 2020, Community Led Local Development).

2. Different groups of participants will be engaged through local community groups firstly in targeted initial training events and policy awareness raising processes, policy development processes, dialogue with local authorities, engagement with citizens from other European cities at the project’s transnational events, voluntary engagement with Union level NGOs promoting active citizenship and, through this, involvement in European policy development processes through dialogue with the European Commission and Parliament.

3. It is the aim of the project to mobilise citizens who have mostly not previously involved NGOs/Institutional or social activities. It is estimated that citizens not previously in the sense of structured civic participation at local or European level will compose a significant number of project participants.

Outputs

1.Kick Off meeting

2.Preparatory Desk Research

3.Local Seminar 1

4.2nd EU Partnership Meeting

5.Local Seminar 2

6.3rd EU Partnership Meeting

7.Local Seminar 3

8.Citizens Portal Development

9.Local Seminar 4

10.Final EU Partnership meeting

The Ballymun Job Centre is Lead Partner on this project and is working with other partners listed below:

Alaturi de Voi Romania

“Alaturi de Voi” Romania Foundation is a non-governmental organization, established in February 2002 by Holt International Children’s Service USA, whose mission is the insertion of HIV-positive people and from other groups at risk. The national headquarters of the foundation is in Iasi, with centres n Constanta and Tg. Mures.

DublinNet

DublinNet is a consortium of Dublin local area partnership companies and job centres organised as a non-profit NGO (company limited by guarantee) to develop Dublin-wide initiatives for social inclusion, civic participation and employment initiatives in areas of high disadvantage.

Ensie

The European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE) takes for its objective:
◾To reinforce the power of the actors in economic social integration enterprises through the exchange between the member organisations.
◾To stimulate cooperation and partnerships by promoting good practices, research results, new applications, and to develop a close and solid collaboration with other European networks active in the social economy with the objective of obtaining synergetic results.
◾To represent the network and to promote all of its activities on all pertinent European levels.
◾To elaborate contributions and propositions in order to participate in the definition of a European policy against social exclusion.

Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro

The Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro was born in March 1998 to give a voice to the most significant experiences within the career paths of individuals from the area of discomfort;
Provide logistical and organizational response to the field work, one of the three areas of focus of the association Gruppo Abele.

To view and download the Final Report – Summary of Events for Our Social Europe Project please click here!!