RECup – Reinforcing European citizenship through building up the conditions for civic and democratic participation
Project Number: 101091320
Dates: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2024
Programme: Erasmus+
Project Summary
RECup is a 24 month-project which seeks to foster EU citizenship and to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at the Union level. To achieve this, the project aims to develop a network of municipalities, to strengthen the e-democracy process so as to make citizens understand the Union policy making- process and to promote opportunities for societal engagement of a specific target group: the unemployed.
The project’s aim is to promote intercultural exchange in the employment field and develop citizens’ understanding of key EU policy objectives including the EU 2021 strategy that emphasizes smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The effects of COVID-19 include high unemployment, which has created great social inequalities and pushed some people to the line of poverty and social exclusion. As a result, these people are not socially active, as they have to deal with the problem of their living. Furthermore, active citizenship has a clear and critical role to play not only i enabling us to emerge strongly from this crisis, but also in helping us understand it and, crucially, think beyond it, to a future that is likely to be different, though in ways that are as yet indeterminate. Crises of this sort often result in far-reaching social and economic change. And we need critical, compassionate citizens to ensure the future is both fair and inclusive. RECup aims to establish a network of towns, which will develop an innovative Open Educational Resource Online Platform and through website creation and training activities implementation in Romania, Malta, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia & Spain, will cope with a common target: to get the unemployed involved in the Union making process with the aim of reducing the unemployed social exclusion by European legislation and policies.
Project Partners
Participatory Seminar Activity: »Compacting poverty and unemployment through activation in Europe« took place in Novo mesto, Slovenia, between 19. and 21. 9. 2024
As part of the 9th Work Package event of the project “Reinforcing European citizenship through building up the conditions for civic and democratic participation – RECup”, an international Participatory Seminar Activity: »Compacting poverty and unemployment through activation in Europe« took place in Novo mesto, Slovenia, between 19. and 21. 9. 2024.
Our organization Fifty- Fifty participate to the event and productively participated to all the lectures, round tables, debates.
RECup is a 24-month project that aims to promote EU citizenship and improve the conditions for civic and democratic cooperation at the level of the Union. In order to achieve this, the project aims to develop a network of municipalities, strengthen the process of e-democracy so that citizens understand the Union’s policy-making process and promote opportunities for social engagement of a special target group: the unemployed. The project aims to promote intercultural exchange in the field of employment and develop citizens’ understanding of key EU policy objectives, including the EU 2021 strategy, which emphasizes smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
Organizations from Greece, Romania, Malta, Spain, Italy and Croatia participate in the project. Among them is the Association for the Development of Voluntary Work Novo mesto, Slovenia. That was the host of the event. The event hosted over 60 foreign and domestic participants.
Participatory Seminar Activity: »Compacting poverty and unemployment through activation in Europe« took place in Novo mesto of the RECUP project offered domestic and foreign participants with an insight in best practices of e-consultation and e-initiative as a means of active citizenship; presentations of the each partner country’s The development of the subject and the e-consultation and e-initiative as a means of active citizenship; Participatory Seminar Activity: Compacting poverty and unemployment through activation in Europe Round Table and Workshop delivered by A.S.E.L. Romania; Ideas Brainstorming: The discussion of the reasons for unemployment and their obstacles they are facing; Round table and workshop on recovery measures, reasons of unemployment and effects fo COVID-19; …
Most countries realised that the recovery after COVID-19 went well, especially Slovenia and Croatia are having historically low unemployment.
The project is co-financed by the European Union within the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program, Network of Cities.