Projekt Homo Europeanus se prezentoval v Mostě
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT:
The project's overall objective is spreading more knowledge about EU particularly in the context of the economic crisis, a general rise in antiimmigrant sentiment and xenophobia – to citizens of the member states and EU candidate countries, in order to overcome democratic deficit.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
- to increase the motivation and build the citizens capacities and competences from current and potential MSs to participate actively in building future Europe.
- to enhance the interactive relation between citizens and institution, encouraging a bottom up approach to allow citizens to express their views on the EU – on what they perceive to be the EU urgent issues relevant to the development of Europe.
- to encourage citizens to use exited democratic instruments and to develop innovative one.
- to enhance participation in debate to build the capacity of civil society organizations.
- to foster European citizenship and ownership of the Europe.
The action will be implemented by 14 NGOs from 9 MSs (Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Latvia), and 3 CC (Serbia, Montenegro, FYROM).
During 16 months project events will involve 500 direct participants and numerous wider local public who will overcome the "knowledge deficit" and gain better understanding about EU – necessary ground for their more active involvement in creating future Europe.