Timespan | Countries involved |
09/2017 08/2019 | Albania, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovenia |
Funded by | SDGs |
Europe for Citizens Programme | 10, 11 |
The project was designed to improve social cohesion and mutual understanding among the population of (medium-sized) cosmopolitan cities. The participants in the network are towns with a diversified population tending to form separate socio-demographic groups, not enough involved in local life, sometimes at the expense of social cohesion. What was the approach used in the project? the land-based approach! In fact, the target public of the project was the local population, as a whole, in a town with diversified demographic profile, including the natives, expats, newly arrived migrants, precarious and vulnerable categories.
- Setting up a well-balanced Local Panel of Stakeholders (LPS), composed of citizens or citizens’ organizations, non-profit and civil society organizations, as well as experts, officials and local authorities, to experiment and review their local integration initiatives;
- Sharing their local experience and exchange good practices with the rest of the network;
- Gaining experience and share the main common findings and recommendations with a larger audience.
Timespan | Countries involved |
09/2017 08/2019 | Albania, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovenia |
Founded by | SDGs |
Europe for Citizens Programme | 10, 11 |
The project was designed to improve social cohesion and mutual understanding among the population of (medium-sized) cosmopolitan cities. The participants in the network are towns with a diversified population tending to form separate socio-demographic groups, not enough involved in local life, sometimes at the expense of social cohesion. What was the approach used in the project? the land-based approach! In fact, the target public of the project was the local population, as a whole, in a town with diversified demographic profile, including the natives, expats, newly arrived migrants, precarious and vulnerable categories.
- Setting up a well-balanced Local Panel of Stakeholders (LPS), composed of citizens or citizens’ organizations, non-profit and civil society organizations, as well as experts, officials and local authorities, to experiment and review their local integration initiatives;
- Sharing their local experience and exchange good practices with the rest of the network;
- Gaining experience and share the main common findings and recommendations with a larger audience.