Are you a local authority (public employee, collaborator, city manager, director,  local administrator, policy maker etc.)? Are you from Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia? Do you want to gain new skills and knowledge in order to increase citizens participation in your region? 

Then, you should participate in this call!

ALDA, the European Association for Local Democracy, invites you to participate in the Local Academy Training. Local practitioners, officials and managers will learn how to better construct an active and fruitful dialogue with citizens and communities when developing local policies. 

The training offers an intensive and strategic learning environment through three modules: 

1. Good democratic governance with a particular focus on the 12 principles of good democratic governance outlined by the CoE;

2. Participatory instruments (i.e. participative budget, committees of citizens etc.) 

3. Local context related to specific needs identified by the participants

The training especially targets participants coming from countries with the lowest participation rate in the European elections, namely, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia, with a particular focus on peri-urban and rural areas. Nevertheless, anyone interested in the training is very welcome to participate!

Questions? Contact Anita Lugli anita[at]aldaintranet.org.

What role does disinformation play in your area?
We're working on strengthening citizen participation in rural communities by supporting them with the tools and know-how to prevent manipulative information from getting into the conversation.

As part of ‘Ideas for Europe' – a project all about boosting political participation in peri-urban and rural Europe – we know it’s essential that everyone has the right information to make the best decisions.

In this interactive, diverse and thought-provoking workshop you will learn
- how disinformation affects human behaviour,
- how to fight disinformation,
- and how you can promote media literacy in your community.

The workshop takes place online on two days, 10 and 11 May 2023 at 13:00 - 15:00 CEST.