The project DECIDE – DEmocratic Compact: Improving Democracy in Europe is turning to its end and the final international seminar will be held on 9-11 June in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 9 of June, the participants will discuss the achievements and challenges ahead in the EU integration process in Western Balkans in the international conference “Promoting citizen participation in democratic local policy-making in Western Balkans: status and perspectives?”.
DECIDE is a key initiative to promoting citizen participation in public life and in the decision making process at the local level. The project, funded by the Europe for Citizens programme, aims, through the establishment of a thematic network of towns and by adopting a bottom-up approach, to develop a democratic compact, namely a set of measures to increase the quality of democracy and citizen participation at local level both in the EU and Western Balkans.
Several good practices have been identified, exchanged, further elaborated and tested by the consortium of 24 municipalities and civil society organisations coming from 14 different countries in wider Europe: 4 countries of the “old” EU15, 6 countries accessing the EU between 2004 and 2007 and 4 IPA countries. This has allowed an enriching exchange among partners with different track record in the EU and its enlargement area, therefore contributing to develop a sense of belonging to a common “house”.
The project DECIDE – DEmocratic Compact: Improving Democracy in Europe is turning to its end and the final international seminar will be held on 9-11 June in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 9 of June, the participants will discuss the achievements and challenges ahead in the EU integration process in Western Balkans in the international conference “Promoting citizen participation in democratic local policy-making in Western Balkans: status and perspectives?”.
DECIDE is a key initiative to promoting citizen participation in public life and in the decision making process at the local level. The project, funded by the Europe for Citizens programme, aims, through the establishment of a thematic network of towns and by adopting a bottom-up approach, to develop a democratic compact, namely a set of measures to increase the quality of democracy and citizen participation at local level both in the EU and Western Balkans.
Several good practices have been identified, exchanged, further elaborated and tested by the consortium of 24 municipalities and civil society organisations coming from 14 different countries in wider Europe: 4 countries of the “old” EU15, 6 countries accessing the EU between 2004 and 2007 and 4 IPA countries. This has allowed an enriching exchange among partners with different track record in the EU and its enlargement area, therefore contributing to develop a sense of belonging to a common “house”.