ALDA supports other stakeholders – local and regional authorities, civil society organizations, educational institutions – by providing a wide range of services such as training and capacity building activities, technical assistance, and ad hoc consultancy on different topics, including: project development and implementation, project financial management and audit, EU institutions, EU funds and programmes, citizens participation (methods and techniques), non formal youth education.
These services are provided with a tailor-made approach, thus target the specific needs of the partners involved.
The European Association for Local Democracy is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. ALDA focuses on activities that facilitate cooperation between local authorities and civil society.
Established at the initiative of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, since 1999 ALDA operates in the European Union and in its Neighborhood.
Among the several participatory processes ALDA is implementing throughout Europe, a special place is taken by the project carrying on within our very neighborhood in Vicenza (Italy): the “Spark” (Scintilla) project.
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Officially kicked-off in April 2019 and carried out thanks to the support of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) programme, the project aimed at strengthening local authorities in Ukraine and Moldova, by empowering them to identify and deliver solutions using participatory methodologies, thus involving the whole community in the decision-making processes.
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ALDA’s General Assembly 2020 will certainly remain etched in our memory for a very long time: it marked the very first online Assembly in the history of the Association, it was the field of key statutory decisions and hosted the renewal of ALDA’s Governing Board!
During the General Assembly, in fact, the members of ALDA’s Governing Board, in charge since 2016, had to give way to the new components elected for the mandate 2020-2024.
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During the ALDA General Assembly 2020, organised in Brussels on Friday 9th October 2020 and broadcasted online, the new Governing Board was elected, statutory changes were voted and a panel of special guests and keynote speakers participated in order to celebrate the 20 years of ALDA!
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Youth social inclusion also goes through street art: the success of the art lab “Flowers of Europe”, organised in the framework of the STAR project.
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