Balkans: Active citizenship for Europe - Town Twinning
Posted on Wednesday, August 15 @ 02:34:14 MDT
Topic: Programmes
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 European Commission DG
Education and Culture - Europe for Citizens, Action 1 Active citizenship for
Europe - Town Twinning
Application deadline: September 1,
2007 / December 1, 2007
Town twinning is aimed
at activities that involve or promote direct exchanges between European citizens
through their participation in town twinning activities and encourage networking
and cooperation between twinned towns.
Action 1 - Active Citizens for Europe, is directed at activities involving
citizens and at bringing together people from local communities across Europe to
share and exchange experiences, opinions and values, to learn from history and
to build for the future. It encourages meetings, exchanges and debates among
European citizens from different countries and through different
means.
1.1. Town twinning citizens' meetings
Town twinning citizens'
meetings consist in bringing together a wide range of citizens and citizens'
groups from twinned towns, taking benefit of the partnership between the
municipalities for developing strong, informal and personal relations between
their citizens.
Town twinning citizens' meetings must:
- Be organised
in the framework of already existing or prospective town twinning arrangements
between towns and municipalities in the eligible countries
- Involve
municipalities from at least two participating countries, from which at least
one is an EU Member State
- Involve the following minimum number of
participants: 1. in bilateral meetings at least ten participants from the
invited municipality, 2. in multilateral meetings (more than two municipalities
involved) at least five participants from each invited municipality.
The
maximum accepted duration of the meeting is 21 days.
The maximum grant to
be awarded is EUR 20,000 per project, the minimum EUR 2,000 per
project.
Eligible applicants:
The applicant must be the municipality
in which the meeting takes place, or its twinning association/twinning committee
with a legal status (legal personality), and be established in a participating
country.
1.2. The thematic networking of twinned towns
Thematic
networking between municipalities on issues of common interest enables informed
discussions and exchange of good practice. Support is given to thematic
conferences and workshops involving at least three towns, developed within the
framework of town twinning. Communication tools produced in the context of these
events with the aim of promoting a structured and sustainable thematic
networking may also be supported.
Conferences and workshops must:
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Correspond to the objectives of this Programme and to the concept of networking
of twinned towns
- Take place in the framework of town twinning and in one of
the participating countries
- Involve at least a total of 20 participants
from at least three municipalities from three different participating countries
of which at least one is an EU Member State
- Present a balanced
participation of the delegations involved: at least 25% of the participants must
come from eligible countries other than the host country.
- Have a minimum
duration of 1 day and maximum 3 days.
The minimum grant to be awarded is
EUR 3,5000 per project.
Eligible applicants
- Municipalities and
twinning committees
- Local and regional governments
- Associations
representing local authorities
- Be from 27 EU Member States (on the 1st of
January 2007). The programme can also be opened to other countries, according to
the agreements signed: 1. EFTA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, 2.
Candidate countries: Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM),
Turkey, 3. Countries from the Western Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, Serbia (incl. Kosovo).
More information
Website:
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/action1/towntwinning/funding_en.htm
E-mail:
eacea-p7@ec.europa.eu
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