Action 4.3 - Youth Support Systems - Support to Youth Workers' Mobility
Call for proposals EACEA/15/2012

The purpose of this call for proposals is to support youth workers' mobility and exchanges with a view to promoting the acquisition of new skills and competences in order to enrich their profile as professionals in the youth field. By promoting long-term transnational learning experiences for youth workers, this new action will also aim at strengthening the capacities of the structures involved in the project, which will benefit from the experience and new perspective brought by a youth worker from a different background. In doing so, this call will enhance networking among youth structures in Europe and will contribute to the policy priority to support, recognise and professionalize youth work as a cross-cutting policy tool in Europe.

Call for proposals (select your language on the target website)

The European Commission has prepared a series of eleven fact sheets and video clips focusing on each of the founding fathers and their role in the history of European integration. The fact sheets contain not only details about their professional and political careers, their war experiences and their beliefs in the benefits of European integration, but a fascinating personal profile of each of them, including information about their diverse backgrounds. Who would have guessed for example that one of them was a Nobel Prize winner and another a Davis Cup tennis player?

Find out more about the Founding Fathers by reading about them or watching videos here:
www.europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/founding-fathers/index_en.htm

On May 9th the European Commission started a public consultation on EU citizenship. The title of the consultation is "Your rights, Your Future" - and this already shows the limited understanding of citizenship by the European Commission.Citizens have rights and obligations, but there is more to citizenship than this.
Citizenship means primarily active involvement of citizens as participation in the life of their communities, and thus in democracy, in terms of activity and decision-making on local, regional, national and European level.

The consultation will be the basis for the next Citizenship report to be published on the Europe Day in 2013 and is linked to the European Year of Citizens 2013. Civil Society Organisations are advocating, with support from the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee, to widen the scope for the European Year and a broder understanding of citizenship.

Now we need your help by expressing your opinion on how you see "Your Future" in Europe.
Take part in the public consultation (available in all 22 languages) to raise your voice and to show that a united Europe means more than individual rights!

Public consultation

Explanatory video by Commissioner Vivian Reding (watch it, and you will understand why your participation is important)

Today is Europe Day! Most of our members celebrate this day with special activities to promote and explain the idea of a closer European integration.
Europe day is also a good opportunity to sit back and reflect a little bit on the achievements we made since the Schuman-Declaration in 1950. Let's go back 50 years. What had been on the European agenda, how was it explained to its citizens and how did it look like?

Watch the very well done 20 minutes video from the archives of the European Union published in 1962 and discover long forgotten issues and topics which are still on the European agenda after 50 years of successful European integration.

Video 

The draft 2013 budget amounts to about €138bn in payments, 6.8% more than in 2012. The increase is in line with calls by EU governments for more growth-friendly investment.

The Commission proposes to concentrate spending on areas most likely to encourage growth and lead to more jobs.

More money will be put into research, education, training, energy and transport networks, and improving the EU's competitiveness, for example. The increase also reflects the additional sums needed for ongoing programmes.
The bills for many of these are due in 2013 - the bridges, railways, motorways that interconnect Europe and increase its competitiveness, for example. EU governments signed off on these commitments in previous budgets and the Commission is legally obliged to pay for them.

However, future expenditure for such long-term projects will be frozen in line with inflation. This means EU governments will not have to pay higher amounts into future budgets.
The Commission is also seeking savings when possible, cutting underperforming programmes and reducing EU staff by 1%, for instance.
Click on the graphic to get an overview on the budgetary procedure.

Draft budget 2013 at a glance

Draft budget 2013 in detail

To make our members more visible we set up an interactive Google map with a marker and additional information for each of our members. 

Now there are four ways to find contact details of our members:

List of members (download )
Search by country
Contact list database searchable by keywords 

and our new map

Over 200 representatives from local, regional and national administrations, institutions, social services and associations came together on 14 February 2012 at the Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels to discuss the multilevel governance approach to Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations.

The Forum presented good practice in the three major thematic strands of the European Year, each of which is closely linked to the CoR’s competences: Employment, Participation in Society and Independent Living.

Our exhibition Picturing the intergenerational dialogue was shown at the event!

Click here to download the report.

A Scholarship Programme for Young Professionals Active in Citizenship Education from Central and South-Eastern Europe

Call for Applications - Closing date: May 31st 2012

Our purpose
The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb) and the Robert Bosch Stiftung are awarding 16 scholarships to young professionals from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. We are looking for people at the beginning of their careers who wish to work internationally. We expect applicants to be already engaged in civic education and promoting democracy and social responsibility in their home countries.

What we offer
We offer the opportunity to work in a German educational institution and to participate in the network of European citizenship education. The programme aims to strengthen and develop efforts in civic education in Central and South-Eastern Europe. The programme language and the working language in the institutions is German.

We offer three different programmes (duration: 10-12 weeks). You need to choose one programme. Details are found in the German version of our application forms on www.bpb.de/inaktion .

A: Joining an existing project
You will contribute to an existing project in a German educational institution.

B: Implementing an own project
You will work on your own project in cooperation with a German educational institution.

C: Planning a study trip
In cooperation with your German host institution you will prepare a short study trip to your home country.

Your profile
You want to promote democracy in your own country. You are active in civil society and you work for a NGO, a civic education institution, an initiative or a network dedicated to supporting civil society. You are interested in international, cross-border cooperation. You want to expand your professional horizon and improve your skills.
Then we want to get to know you!

Read more

Being the second oldest simulation conference in Greece, RhodesMRC is dedicated to regional international organizations. It will take place in Rhodes for five days: October 17-21, 2012. During that period, participants from all over the world will take the stand as diplomats of countries, different from those of their origin, to debate and resolve on various issues that effect our region, expanding and contributing to this year's general theme "Towards Effective Peacebuling and Sustainable Development on a regional level".

Political crisis, human rights, migration, disarmament and the economy are a short reference to the topics that will be included in the agenda of the Union for the Mediterranean, the Black Sea Economic Co-operation and the Council of Europe, the three simulated organizations. All these under the supervision of young scientists and students from 4 countries and an esteemed Scientific Committee.

Registration is now open!

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Four new publications to promote and explain activities under the Youth in Action programme have been published.

Topics:

• Youth Exchanges: mutual understanding 
• Youth Democracy: building a vibrant society 
• Youth Volunteering: personal challenges, social objectives 
• Youth Support: stronger backing for youth projects 

Click on the pictures below to download the English versions or here to select a different language

Report on the promotion of active citizenship in Europe to the Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe.

This report emphasises how good practice at local levels stands to enhance the quality and reputation of democracy at national and international levels as well. It indicates participation and consultation as key features of active citizenship. And within the Council of Europe it supports measures of co-ordination with a view to achieving better results for democracy at local and national levels (“Single Programme”). It also advises better co-ordination and working systems between the Council of Europe and the European Union, and that such new or revised systems should be devised and connected to the Council of Europe's own Single Programme as this develops and becomes deployed.

The report proposes that member States, on the one hand, take steps to facilitate the exchange of experience between and amongst cities and governments with an emphasis on examples of practical ways to enhance participation, citizenship and good governance at local levels and, on the other, put in place youth councils with a view to ensuring the possibility for young people to have a say in decisions affecting them.

Read the full report (EN ) (FR )

Die Neuauflage 2012 der Informationen zur politischen Bildung über die Europäische Union ist nun verfügbar.

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Le CVCE , la Commune de Sanem et la Maison Robert Schuman, site du Conseil général de la Moselle organisent l'exposition «Caricatures d’Europe: trois siècles d’histoire à travers les dessins de presse».

Fruit d'un riche passé, l'Europe actuelle est le résultat d'évolutions contrastées. La perception d'une identité commune aux peuples et nations européennes, si on la trouve chez certains penseurs et hommes politiques dès l'Antiquité, a mis du temps à s'imposer. La caricature, qui se développe à partir de la Révolution française, permet de mesurer l'évolution de cette perception. Touchant un large public, le dessin satirique révèle en effet l'état des opinions et des sentiments collectifs. L'exposition présente à travers des caricatures issues d'une vingtaine de pays d'Europe les étapes qui ont permis aux États européens de construire une paix durable entre eux.

L'exposition s'inscrit dans le cadre des Journées du livre et du droit d'auteur.

Informations pratiques:

• Vendredi 20 avril 2012 de 14h00 à 17h00
• Samedi 21 avril 2012 de 10h00 à 17h00

au CVCE, Château de Sanem

CVCE a été partenaire d' EUNET pour les projets REPERES

Highlights aus dem Inhalt:

• Barrierefreiheit für ALLE
• Warum lesen?!
• Interkultureller Tourismus
• Aktives Altern und Generationensolidarität

Aktuelle Ausgabe Download dreieck 01/2012