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  • Breaking Isolation - european Urbact program

    Social isolation: a silent and nearly invisible epidemic that needs to be broken

    Humans are, by nature, social creatures. We, humans, need social interactions. We need to talk, to laugh, to cry, to play, to share. Of course, we also enjoy, sometimes, to withdraw and take a break

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    EXPERIMENTATION ON THE GROUND: SMALL-SCALE ACTIONS IN SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA

    Since the first moment of the adhesion of the Municipality of Santa Maria da Feira to the European program URBACT, the local group of the Active Citizens project privileges experimentation in the

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    THE ACTIVE CITIZENS NETWORK: A PARTNERSHIP BASED ON HONESTY, TRANSPARENCY AND FRIENDSHIP

    Christophe Gouache, the Active Citizens network Lead Expert, is a designer of public policy but also a teacher at “Science Po” Lille, a trainer at the National Institute of Territorial Studies in

  • Active citizen = investment in the future

    The statutory city of Hradec Králové has enough experience with so-called "hard" investment projects. But even "soft" projects cannot be underestimated. For this reason, I consider it very important

  • PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY A REAL BENEFIT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY

    Bertrand Girardi is Delegate Municipal Councilor in charge of the city of Agen’s Participative Democracy and in particular of the URBACT Program and European projects of citizen participation

  • « L’espace citoyens » : a smart collective hub

    The city of Saint Quentin took over citizen participation in 2014.

  • « L’espace citoyens » : a smart collective hub

    The city of Saint Quentin took over citizen participation in 2014.

  • TRANSNATIONAL MEETING IN DINSLAKEN: AGEN, LEAD OF THE ACTIVE CITIZENS NETWORK, BRINGS PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY TO THE HEART OF EUROPE

    FEEDBACKS FROM AGEN’S DELEGATION FOLLOWING THE TRANSNATIONAL MEETING IN DINSLAKEN.

    As part of the European Urbact program, the “Active Citizens” delegation from the city of Agen took part, on March 30

  • Local governmental committees (LGC) as a flagship of a democracy Our planned small-scale action with a long-term impact

    There is an ongoing discussion of how to encourage people to take care about their town, neighborhoods or park, which they use every day while walking to the job. On that account one has to ask: Why