QeC ERAN Newsflash - Issue 5 December, 2009

Focus on

Using creativity as a tool for social and economic cohesion
The European Year of Creativity and Innovation in 2009 has resulted in a general rethinking of what creativity and innovation mean and how they contribute to Europe’s economic and social development. Creative ideas and innovative solutions are proving to be crucial to help Europe emerge from ...Read more>>

New Europe, old stereotypes
2009 has seen big changes within the European Institutions: at first the elections to the European Parliament and the appointment of a new European Commission and now, following the recent adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, we have seen the creation of new posts such as a President of the European Council and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Read more>>

Projects

Local Forums for developing participatory democracy (Fundamental Rights)
The Fundamental Rights project for developing participatory democracy has now entered a new phase. Given the positive results and feedbacks from the precedent actions, the project now aims at combining active participation with new social networks such as Twitter. Read more>>

Active Age: new tools for developing Local Action Plans
The Urbact II Active-AGE project is now entering the next phase and will focus on the sub-theme of « AGE and Care ». The partners are now working on preparing their first Local Action Plan on “Age and the Economy”. Read more>>

WEED: master class on EU funds for microfinance
The WEED project has recently published a report on “Developing an Urban Agenda for female entrepreneurship during the economic downturn”. The report is the product of the Transnational Exchange Workshop that took place from 3 to 6 September 2009 in Celje, Slovenia. Read more>>

BHC: Indicators and Criteria for a Healthy Sustainable Urban Development
The BHC project has just published a report on “Indicators and Criteria for a Healthy Sustainable Urban Development”. The report is one of the first concrete outcome of the network following the transnational workshop that took place from 8-9 June 2009 in Łódź, Poland. Read me>>  

ESIP – closing up the Laps and Raps project
ESIP Board members met in Brussels on 2 December 2009 in connection with the final Laps and Raps II project steering group meeting. Discussions centred around the closing up of the Laps and Raps II project ... Read more>>

Roma-NET: New URBACT network on Integration of Roma population
QeC ERAN is involved in a new project which will establish a network between 8-10 cities on the theme of Roma integration. The network will be led by the city of Budapest, Hungary. Read more>>

Healthy & Wealthy Together
Qec-ERAN is starting a new project under the INTI programme which will be coordinated by our member, the city of Amadora, Portugal. Read more>>

EU news and publications

9 out of 10 Europeans want urgent action on poverty
73% of Europeans consider poverty to be a widespread problem in their country while 89% want urgent action by their government to tackle the problem.Those are the key results....read more

Stockholm programme made public
The Swedish Presidency of the EU presented on 16 October its first draft of the Stockholm Programme, which specifies the frameworks for EU .....read more

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