Three comparative studies have been done, examining the level of citizen participation in decision-making process at local levels within the six Western Balkans countries (WB6).

Within the framework of the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities, on the 12th of October 2021, ALDA, together with the European Partnership for Democracy, organized the online workshop “Boosting territorial recovery through innovative citizens’ participation”.

The Avatar project, which started in October 2020, is planning new events, training-courses and services useful to citizens, companies, learning institutions and to the third sector.

Participants of the VALID project took the days of September 10-13 to visit the culturally monumental city and engage in various cultural exchanges and activities, alongside partners of the event presenting their own delegations of the project.

Our office in Brussels is happy to announce that our co-working space is now open, and ready to be booked. Find yourself a spot at the core of the European quarter, and be surrounded by the European spirit.

ALDA is extremely proud to make part in the Anna Lindh Virtual Marathon for Dialogue with the project “Cross Border cooperation to strengthen the decentralisation process in response to the Covid-19 Crisis”.

With the occasion of 700th anniversary of the death of the epic poet Dante, within VALID project a meeting has been organised, in this Italian city of Ravenna, on June the 14th of 2021, were the poet is now resting in peace.

A bicycle parade to raise awareness of the use of bikes as a model of transport, for a green revolution in Tunisia!

Within the framework of the Project “Youth Empowerment for Local Democracy in Tunisia” (Autonomisation de la jeunesse pour construire une Démocratie locale en Tunisie) a set of three trainings have been organised in different cities of Tunisia.

During the previous weeks, our colleague Eva met Gregorio Arena, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Trento from 1985 to 2015, and President of Labsus – Laboratorio per la Sussidiarietà.

Julia is a young girl from Germany who has just started a volunteering experience at the Cooperativa Primavera 85, where she will be working for the next 6 months, in the framework of  VOICE III, a project funded by the European Solidarity Corps programme.

Since October 2020, ALDA has been a partner in the implementation of the Project PIECE: Participation Inclusion and Engagement of Communities in Europe.

Let’s close the APProach project with the last and final conference of the project and gather online to celebrate the work done by the consortium these last years.

ALDA is continuously supporting activities in the field of active European citizenship and international solidarity.

From July to September 2020, ALDA supported the Municipality of Schio with the aim of relaunching the Neighborhood Councils, activating a participatory process aimed at increasing the sense of belonging of the population, solving the problems of the various communities from below and planning their future in a shared way

In occasione dell’evento pubblico svoltosi mercoledì 9 settembre 2020 a Schio (VI) a tema “Il quartiere comincia da te! Rigenerazione dei Consigli di Quartiere di Schio”, è stata presentata la fase 2 del processo partecipativo, ovvero il percorso di incontri che vede protagonisti i singoli quartieri in vista del prossimo rinnovo.

The AUTREMENT Project – Urban and Territorial Planning to Reinvent Mobilities and Engage Tunisian Citizens – officially started on June 1st of this year, in a very unique way, as the world was gently getting out of the lockdown.

Last February we welcomed six Civil Service volunteers to our team in the ALDA offices of Brussels, Skopje and Strasbourg. After four months since their arrival, Alessandro, Arianna, Elisa, Francesca, Giorgia and Virginia share their thoughts about their experience in ALDA so far.