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A Europe from bottom up
Last month City Mine(d) organised a Europe wide debate on "How can local actions benefit from international connections?". City Mined is an international network of individuals and collectives involved with city and local actions and aims to put current issues from the neighbourhood to the European level by means of arts projects, campaigns and debates.
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Network news Executive Board Residential and Team Residential
The Executive Board met at a residential meeting on 25-27 January 2010 which took place in Chevron, Belgium. The two day meeting allowed for good discussions on the future development of the network and on how to ensure that members are satisfied with the service being provided. Read more>> QeC-ERAN Winter Chill
On January 18 QeC-ERAN organised a new year’s reception to discuss with policy makers and colleagues in an informal way the challenges that lie ahead of us not only in the EU but also globally. Read more>> Project Updates
Active Age: second TEW in Maribor (Slovenia)
The Active-AGE Project partners are going to meet each others on the occasion of the Second Transnational Workshop on “Age and Care”, scheduled from 24 to 26 of February in Maribor, Slovenia. Read more>> Local Forums for developing participatory democracy (Fundamental Rights)
The Local Forum for Developing Participatory Democracy project is currently holding its final conference in Barcelona. All the local partners from Spain, Slovenia, UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Cyprus will gather at this event to finalize the online training on participatory democracy. Read more>>
WEED: preparation of Laps on supporting women entrepreneurship
Following the first transnational workshop partners have presented their Local Action Plans around the theme of supporting women entrepreneurship. Read more>>
Building Healthy Communities: workshop on "Healthy Sustainable Lifestyles", 3-5 March 2010
The BHC second thematic workshop will be held in Torino (Italy) from the 3-5 March 2010. The workshop will focus on the Local Action Plans that each of the ten partner cities is developing according to the URBACT II framework. Each city will outline its LAP and will highlight specific actions in the field of health and quality of life, taking into account the diversity of approaches, needs and challenges that partner cities are witnessing. Read more>> ESIP – closing up the Laps and Raps project
The preparation of the ESIP activity report2009 and the first newsletter issue for 2010 are underway. Read more>> URBACT network on Integration of Roma population (Roma-net)
The first Steering Group meeting of the Roma network took place in Brussels from 7-9 January 2010. Read more>> Healthy & Wealthy Together: Together for the first Steering group meeting
The 4 and 5 of February in Brussels have been intense working days for our partners. Usually the SGM is a moment of international organization and planning for concepts and next actions.
We focused on the issues that will constitute the common ground for the local actions and mapping and on the themes for the First Transnational meeting, scheduled in June.
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EU News and Publications Spanish Presidency contributes to a strong momentum for the 2010 EU Year for combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
The Spanish Presidency hosted the official opening event for the 2010 European Year for combating Poverty and Social Exclusion in Madrid on 21 January.
Hearings of the European Commissioners designate in the European Parliament
Between 11 and 19 January, the European Parliament held a series of public hearings with the 26 candidate Commissioners put forward by the Council and Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
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