Originally this award was conceived for the best town-twinning agreements between Italian cities. However, in the framework of the CEMR conference on citizenship and twinning, and the 10th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement, the award will this year add a new category in order to showcase best projects between municipalities of the EU and municipalities coming from countries who acceded the EU in 2004.
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) is the oldest and broadest European association of local and regional government. This is the only organisation that brings together the national associations of local and regional authorities from 41 European countries and represents, through them, all levels of territories – local, intermediate and regional. Since its creation in 1951, CEMR promotes the construction of a united, peaceful and democratic Europe founded on local self-government, respect for the principle of subsidiarity and the participation of citizens.
Every three years CEMR organizes a conference on citizenship and twinning (CEMR is the main promoter of town-twinning in Europe). This time the conference called “Citizen in my city, citizen in Europe” will be held in Rome between the 15 and the 17 of December in Rome together with the structured dialogue of the European Commission on the Europe for Citizens Programme.
More information about the organization: http://www.ccre.org/
The "JobNet- Active citizens combating youth unemployment" project (EACEA 529171-EFC-1-2012-1-HU-EFC-CSP) was an international research about the Youth unemployment in Europe. The main goal of the project was to highlight and promote innovative bottom-up solutions Europe-wide aimed at combating youth unemployment.
The main objective of the JobNet project was to build a transfrontier network of non- governmental organization to identify, share, discuss and encourage initiatives successfully tackling youth unemployment in different European countries which can be deployed in other EU states as well.
The project intended to involve unemployed youth as active citizens following the principle:“Nothing about us, without us”.
In the frame of the project six civil organizations from Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Latvia and Slovakia closely cooperated with each other and all key actors to raise public awareness on importance of active citizenship, citizens’, civil organizations’ initiatives tackling youth unemployment.
Publication on the project and the research paper can be download here: http://karpatokalapitvany.hu/en/iras/jobnet-active-citizens-combating-youth-unemployment
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