EAPN Greece is active within the “Foundations for Futures Europe” project.
This 6-member partnership (Ireland: Maynooth University, Sweden: URKRAFT, Ireland: EAPN Ireland, Hungary: Pécs University, Serbia: Novi Sad University, Greece: EAPN Greece aims to develop a network of Higher Education and Civil Society (NGOs) Partners to engage citizens in debates and discussion groups around the future direction of the European project. We are exploring the common socio-political and economic views and experiences of European citizens, across a range of age groups and within the context of social and digital inclusion, using adult education, community development and experiential learning theory and practice. The way to do that is by engaging participants from 6 countries, including young people, people experiencing poverty, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities in an on-line participative forum and form a collation of a Future Citizen Europe digital resource pack and the sharing of learning about on-line collaborative work to achieve the establishment of an on-line platform for citizen engagement and solidarity, a co- created resource pack for citizen participation and the development of an open access journal for community engaged research.
In EAPN Greece we are organising a 4-session online seminar entitled Participatory Democracy: Designing the Social Europe of the Future with the aim to create a group of people with a refugee profile, experts and scientists in order to develop a dialogue on issues related to the European way of life and social inclusion. Through an experiential process the group will envision the social Europe of the future, learning about the history and institutions of the EU, its principles, values, modus operandi and policies around social inclusion. During the seminar the group will answer three (3) key questions: a) Which EU I dreamed of, b) Which EU I came to, c) Which EU I want to live in. The results of the above process will be presented at the European conference in April 2022. The seminar sessions is held online via zoom in English (Saturday 15/01/2022, 05/02/2022, 12/03/2022, 19/03/2022).
With the help of professional facilitators, academics, representatives of local communities and civil society organizations we are looking into shaping the Social Europe of the Future.
Find out more about EAPN Greece here:
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greek-antipoverty-network
Twitter: eapn_greece
Instagram: eapn_greece
Facebook: Greek-Antipoverty-Network
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