Resources for citizenship

Please have a look at the new section of the website “Resources” where you can find useful materials about citizenship both produced by the project Eu-Relay and by other organizations or institutions. Thank you to our readers for suggesting other useful tools they know by sending an e.mail to eu.relay@europe.com

Matera days

After a seven day training in Matera (Italy), the 6 teams are ready to start their journey! Participants from Bulgaria, France, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands and  Romania discussed during the first meeting about the structure and the contents of the video-documentary Eu-Relay. Participants also had the chance to ge to know local reality by meeting some organizations working in the field of active citizenship in Matera. Moreover the organizers provided a short training course on video techniques, creating short videos which will be soon available on this website. (In the picture, the last evening in Altamura).

Ready to start!

The city of Matera (Italy) will host the first meeting of the project Eu-relay. The international group (3 participants from 6 countries) will be hosted at “Le Monacelle”, a beautiful hostel in the old town called Sassi, protected as world heritage by UNESCO.  The meeting, from the 19th to the 25th of February, will focus on clarification of aims and structure of the project. Moreover participants will be trained on citizenship issues and they will also get some input on video journalism as a tool. Participants will define common guidelines concerning the video documentary which is the main outcome we expect from the project.

EU-Relay – February Meeting – Program

The training

Associazione Culturale Link will host in February 2011 the fist event of the project: a 6 day training course about european citizenship and video as a tool to investigate and document different situations in the partner countries concerning this issue. The training will be hosted at “Le Monacelle” in Matera from the 19th to 25th of February. Very soon the program will be published on this blog.

Call for participants

The project Eu-relay will officially start the 1st of December 2010. Link – the coordinating organization – and its european partners are now launching a call for participants to select in each country a group of 3 people to create teams which will travel in another country and give their contribution to the creation of a pan-european video documentary on citizenship. We are looking for participants able to commit themselves during all the process, which means to attend the preparation meeting in February 2011 in Italy, to make thei trip and to work on the documentary production in another country and to attend the final meeting in June 2011.

Please read the project description attached to this post and, if you are interested, download the application form, fill it in and send it back to the national coordinator in your country. The countries involved are: Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, The Netherlands and France. Participants should have good language skills (at least English), skills in journalism and video.making tecniques and good knowledge of issues of European relevance.

Download here the Project resume

Download here the Application form

EU-Relay: a European project

We are glad to inform our friends all over Europe that the project EU-Ralay has been approved by the Executive Agency under the action “Support to projects initiated by civil society organisations” (Action 2, Measure 3 of Europe for Citizens program).

The aim of the project is to create a pan-european video documentary on citizenship. The project’s title EU-Relay, refers to a race of travelling teams, from one country to another, with the aim of exploring through video different local realities in terms of European citizenship. The project intends to answer to the following programme proirity: “Active European Citizenship: participation in our societies”. There is a need for further reflection on the concept of Active European Citizenship as well as a need for development of tools and models adapted to citizens’ active participation in the construction of Europe at all levels.
The concept of the project is an itinerant trip of teams, organzed like a relay, in the 6 involved countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, France). Each team -composed by 3 people involved in civil society organzations- will travel to another country and work in cooperation with the hosting team during 5 days in what we call “video-actions”. The teams will create their own part of the documentary and they will use it as a pretext to investigate the project’s issues. They will make interviews, visit local organizations and insitutions, meet students in schools, organize meeting and non-formal activities in order to stimulate debates on European citizenship and meanwhile produce a video documentary. In a more specific way the issues will be related to poverty and social exclusion, European identity, cultural diversity, creativity and active participation.  Like in a relay the projects goes on until all the teams meet in Italy for final editing, launch of the video documentary and evaluation. The video will be in original languages and subtitled in English. It will be used by all the partners and other stakeholders to promote the project and its results and to foster further reflecions and debates on the issues concerned.