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.
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