NOT SKIP Project - 4th International Event held in Romania with the motto ‘Speak-UP!’
On Tuesday, 2 December, the conference ‘Speak-UP!’ - Co-designing the Final Recommendations was held in Bucharest, Romania took place in Bucharest, Romania, corresponding to another of the actions, more specifically, the fourth international meeting of the ‘NOT SKIP: Network of Organisations for Promoting Skills for Participation’ project, in an event organised by the Romanian partner of this European project, whose consortium AJITER is part of, ‘Asociatia Nameless Art’.
This event - in which AJITER was represented by a delegation of five participants from Terceira Island - aimed to draw up a set of recommendations for various social actors, based on the work already carried out in this project, which will contribute to improving democratic participation in the communities where they are located, namely through the promotion of actions and strategies that can better involve and empower citizens for democratic participation.
This project is part of the CERV programme, funded by the European Union's Justice, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Fund (CERV - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values), and will run for two years, until 2026. Its action plan includes several conferences and other actions whose fundamental objective is to promote skills for the promotion of civic participation among populations.
This international action, which involved 30 representatives from the six nationalities participating in the project, as well as around 150 young students from local schools, focused on sharing good practices and local projects promoting democratic participation from the various countries involved in the project, alluding to the role of schools and training in the use of digital platforms as new forms of participation. There was also space for the technical coordination of the entire project and its action plan, as well as contact with the local reality in the political, social, historical, cultural and economic fields.
As part of the delegation, the President of AJITER, Décio Santos, had the opportunity to highlight the importance of investing in the training of young people and citizens in general in media literacy as a good practice for encouraging qualified and informed democratic participation and intervention.
This project has a consortium of six entities and is coordinated by the organisation Fattoria Pugliese Diffusa APS (Italy), with the participation, as already mentioned, of the Terceira Island Youth Association - AJITER (Portugal), Musninkų kaimo bendruomenė (Lithuania), the Municipality of Fyli (Greece), Asociatia Nameless Art (Romania) and the Local Action Group ‘Dolina Rzeki Grabi’ (Poland).
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