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Almelo

With 72.000 residents, Almelo is a medium-sized municipality in the Twente region, the most eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border. Neighbouring towns are Hengelo and Enschede. Almelo is a characteristic town that offers a diversity of shops, schools [......]

Arad Municipality

Arad is the capital city of the Arad County, straddling the Mures River and occupying parts of two historical provinces of the Western Romania, Crisana and Banat. The city has a population of 147,992 inhabitants, making it the 13th largest city in Romania and [......]

Association of the City and the Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region

The Association of the City and the Municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region is a non-profit organisation established and managed by the local authorities within the Region and aimed at providing them with services.

Büyükçekmece, Municipality

"More Modern Büyükçekmece, Happier People from Büyükçekmece"

Büyükçekmece Municipality was established as a township. It has been well-known of it’s agricultural and touristic potential. It showed a huge development in the 1980s and it’s population grew [......]

Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz is a city located in the northern part of Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. It is the capital of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship and the 8th-largest city in Poland. Bydgoszcz has a population around 361 thousand people. Bydgoszcz is the seat of Kazimierz Wielki University, UTP University of Sciences and Technology, Collegium Medicum and Academy of Music as well as sixteen other universities and colleges. Bydgoszcz hosts the Pomeranian Philharmonic, the Opera Nova and the Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport.

Chania

Chania is a city in western Crete, Greece, in the department of the same name. This is the second largest city on the island, with about 55,000 inhabitants.

Chemnitz

Chemnitz, the “European City of Culture 2025”, is a town with many faces. It is the third largest city in Saxony with approximately 245 000 inhabitants. Art and culture are integral parts of the city’s history. As an old industrial town, the city was named the „Saxon Manchester“ and in the 20th Century a key international player in mechanical and locomotive engineering. Chemnitz is often not perceived on a national and European level. However, this will change with the nomination as Capital of Culture. It is now all the more important that the people of Chemnitz also participate in shaping the future of their city. This can be done by participating in online citizens' offices, citizens' consultation hours with the mayor or surveys often simply from home.

City of Iasi

Iasi City, “the Cultural capital” of Romania, is situated in S-E Europe, in the N-E of Romania, and is the most important city near the border, as it is the eastern entrance gate to the European Union and the capital of the future Euro-region. With a population [......]

City of Reggio Calabria - Metropolitan Area

Reggio is the biggest and the most populated city in Calabria, southern Italy, and is the seat of the Council of Calabrian government. Reggio is located on the "toe" of the Italian peninsula and is separated from the island of Sicily by the Strait of Messina. It is [......]

DOMOKOS

The new Municipality of Domokos includes the former municipalities of Domokos, Xyniada and Thessaliotida which are now designated as Municipal Units. The seat of the municipality is the local community of Domokos which is built like an amphitheatre in a panoramic [......]

El Turro

Esta pequeña Entidad Local de El Turro, está anexada al Municipio de Cacin en Granada-España, cuenta en la actualidad con 290 vecinos, ubicada en el Poniente Granadino a una distancia de 35 Km. de Granada capital y a 5 Km. de la Autovia que conecta con la misma. Sitio aislado de los ruidos y contaminaciones de la gran urbe. Por motivos historicos se agregó a un Municipio distante a 12 Km con una pesima comunicación con el mismo, donde los vecinos tenian que desplazarce a pie para obtener un simple certificado de empadronamiento. Desde el dia 6 de Febrero de 2013 la reivindación vecinal apoyada por una fuerza politica, consiguió que tuviera su propia autonomia local. Desde esta nueva Administración en este breve periodo de tiempo, ha conseguido montar una infraestructura administrativa en un local de  45 metros cuadrados, donde presta los servicios de administracion, servicios sociales, secretaria, departamento tecnico y demas servicios locales. Desde esta nueva Adminsitración Local se apuesta por la integración social de todos los colectivos y en tan breve espacio de tiempo se ha creado una Asociación Musical en la Entidad, compuesta por jovenes en su gran mayoria desempleados. Igualmente esta en fase de terminación otra asociación vecinal de mujeres, en su gran mayoria amas de casa y personas mayores. Se ha conseguido la asistencia a los Plenos Locales de gran cantidad de vecinos, donde se observar el grado de participación de los mismos. Mensualmente se estan realizando en el pequeño centro social que cuenta dicha entidad local, reuniones vecinales abiertas a todos los vecinos, donde se exponen los problemas vecinales existentes y se intenta buscar las soluciones optimas entre la administración y los ciudadanos. Los temas actuales que se estan tratando en dichas Juntas Vecinales son: -Ciclo integral del agua, donde la Entidad con los vecinos han estudiado un proyecto de suministro de agua potable de manantial, tratamiento, canalización y depuración para vertido al rio. -Dotar a la Entidad por  parte de las Empresas de Telecomunicaciones de fibra optica, puesto que en la actualidad en pleno 2013 no existe servicio de Internet en dicha localidad que pueda dar servicio a los ciudadanos.

FALUN

Active Citizenship and participatory democracy are key concepts when it comes to making society function efficiently in the 21st century. A modern representative democracy is based on the rule of law, the delegation of limited powers through elections and the direct [......]

Festos

The Municipality of Festos is a consolidation of three former municipalities Zaros Timbaki and Mires, it has a rich cultural reserve, significant agricultural production, but also sites of high beauty. Its headquarters are located in the town Mires and historic capital [......]

GOLEM Municipality

Golem municipality  is part of the district of Tirana.  It was established on 1 October 1992. The municipality is  located near the city of Durres, which is the largest coastal city in Albania , 15 km from the biggest sea port in Albania and [......]

Grindavík municipality

Grindavík municipalityis one of Iceland's special surprises for tourists. While best known for its world famous Blue Lagoon, Grindavík also offers visitors a variety of opportunities promises visitors many diverse opportunities for recreation, leisure, and family fun.
 
This [......]

Huddinge

Huddinge is the second largest municipality in the county, located in the South of Stockholm City. With over 106,000 residents, Huddinge is in a unique position in terms of its proximity to the heart of the capital and its access to extensive, easily accessible nature areas.Besides a fantastic countryside, Huddinge also has a wealth of cultural and leisure activities to offer. We have modern sports facilities, popular cultural events, a vibrant recreational scene and plenty of meeting places for young and old. This combination appeals to many, and is one of the reasons why Huddinge is developing and expanding at a rapid pace.

Ille-et-Vilaine, Conseil général

The General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine is the deliberative assembly of the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine, decentralized local government. Its headquarters is located in Rennes.

Jerez, City Council

Jerez de la Frontera is a municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, situated midway between the sea and the mountains. It has become the transportation and communications hub of the province, surpassing even [......]

Junta de Andalucía

Andalusia is an autonomous region of 87 000 square kilometers and a population of  8.5 millions  inhabitants. Located in the South of Spain it has a status of Autonomus Region that allows him, to promote programmes for local autonomy. The Andalusian Government [......]

KAIROUAN

Kairouan, also known as Kirwan or al-Qayrawan, is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia. Referred to as the Islamic Cultural Capital, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city was founded by the Arabs around 670. In the period of Caliph Mu'awiya (reigned [......]

Katowice

Although the city of Katowice owes its development, to a large extent, to heavy industry, nowadays these traditional sectors of the regional economy are giving way to new areas of activities. Companies from different fields are settling down in postindustrial areas, and many new jobs are created. Add a modern infrastructure, and you get a city with a dynamic development and growing attractiveness for residents and investors.

Kecioren Municipality Directorate of Foreign Relations

Keçiören is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, a crowded district in the northern part of the city of Ankara.

The Directorate of Social Welfare Affairs of Kecioren Municipality is an important institution within [......]

LE MAS

As a village of 169 inhabitants, Le Mas is located in the hinterland of Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes-France). It is known for its unique environment, its heritage and its diverse cultural activities. Since 2008, the municipal team is committed to promoting European integration [......]

Le Mas, Town Hall

As a village of 169 inhabitants, Le Mas is located in the hinterland of Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes-France). It is known for its unique environment, its heritage and its diverse cultural activities. Since 2008, the municipal team is committed to promoting European integration [......]

Maidstone Borough Council

Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) is the second level local authority for the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, United Kingdom.

Melton Borough Council

Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Melton Mowbray. Other settlements include Asfordby and Bottesford. It has a population of 46,861.

Merton, Council

Formed in 1965, the London Borough of Merton is an outer London borough to the south-west of the capital. It has a population of 200,500 residents and is home to the world-famous All England Lawn Tennis Club, where the Wimbledon Championships take place.

Each year [......]

Metz

Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the capital and the prefecture of both the Lorraine region and the Moselle department.

Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, [......]

Mirano - Province of Venice

Mirano is a small city located in the northwest of the Province of Venice, around 20 km from the lagoon centre, in a crucial position between Venice, Padua and Treviso. The economy of the city is associated with many commercial activities, handcraft companies and factory [......]

Mola di Bari

Mola di Bari, more commonly referred to simply as Mola, is a small coastal town located approximately 22 kilometres from the South of Bari in the Southern Italian region of Apulia (Puglia). Mola is home to a large fishing industry that supplies fresh [......]

Municipality of Skydra

The municipality of Skydra is located in the department of Pella in the Northern part of Greece and has 21.200 inhabitants.It is a significant agricultural,commercial and export center of fruits, mainly peaches.

Neuchatel

Neuchâtel is a Swiss town on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel, on the southern flank of the Jura, it faces the Alps.

The economy of the city has long been associated with the administration (the most important city of the region) and agriculture (vines). It was dominated [......]

NYSA

Nysa, a picturesque town located at Nyskie Lake at the foot of the Sudety Mountains, called "Silesian Rome" , due to its valuable monuments is one of the main tourist attractions of the Silesia region in Southern Poland.  It is also the capital of Nysa [......]

Ordu, Municipality

Ordu is a port city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, and the capital of Ordu Province.

Perpignan, Mediterranean Conurbation Community

The Association includes 36 towns in the urban periphery under the name of the Perpignan Mediterranean Conurbation Community. All of its actions converge toward one single goal: the sustainable development of the territory.

Peterborough City Council

Peterborough City Council is a unitary authority in the East of England and a 45 minute train ride from London.

 

We are planning to hold a question time event involving local councillors and other local public figures with the audience being made up of [......]

Portsmouth, City

Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island and is a significant naval port of England.

The [......]

ROCHDALE Metropolitan Borough Council

RochdaleMBC is a Metropolitain Borough in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) north-northwest of Oldham, and 9.8 miles (15.8 km) north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale along [......]

Södermöre municipal district Kalmar

Södermöre is a single municipal district within the municipality of Kalmar. It has a rich natural and cultural environments.

The population of Södermöre is steadily growing because of increased immigration from families. The Södermöre municipal district [......]

Setentil de las Bodegas

Setenil de las Bodegas is located 157 kilometres (98 mi) northeast of Cadiz.

It has a distinctive setting along a narrow river gorge. The town extends along the course of the Rio Trejo with some houses being built into the rock walls of the gorge itself, created [......]

STOCKTON ON TEES Borough Council

Stockton-on-Tees is located at the heart of the Tees Valley in the North East of England. The area is within easy reach of city shopping and leisure facilities, the coast and rural North Yorkshire, as well as being home to industrial zones. There is a mixture of urban centres, [......]

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is a city in eastern France on the left bank of the Rhine. It is the capital of the Alsace region and of the département of Bas-Rhin. The city has been the seat of the Council of Europe since 1949, the European Parliament since 1992 and the European Court of Human Rights in the Human Rights Building since 1998, earning it the titles of “European Capital” and “Capital of Europe”. In terms of the number of people living within the city itself, Strasbourg is the largest municipality in the Grand Est region of France and the seventh largest in France. It is one of the main economic centres in the north east of the country.

SUNDBYBERG

Sundbyberg is the most densely populated municipality in the country and yet, it is near to green areas, lakes, parks and enchanting cafés. Our modern office buildings with their fibre-optic networks, share the same area as restaurants and wooden manors from the [......]

TBILISI

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia lying on the banks of the Mtkvari River. It is governed by the Tbilisi City Assembly (Sakrebulo), elected once every four years, and the Tbilisi City Hall (Meria). Administratively, the city is divided into raions [......]

Tersky, Council of Deputies of Tersky District

Tersky District is an administrative district in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located in the south of the Kola Peninsula Kola and borders the White Sea in the south. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Umba. The Council of Deputies of Tersky District is the [......]

The City of Athens Ombudsman

The City of Athens Ombudsman is an independent authority acting within the structure of the Athens Municipality. The Ombudsman examines complaints of directly affected citizens/companies for maladministration of the municipal agencies and mediates with the aim of resolving [......]

Ulyanovsk-city

THE CITY

Name of our city is inseparably linked with the name of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin, who was born here on the 22nd of April 1870. In Simbirsk-Ulyanovsk lived and created many remarkable writers: I.A. Goncharov, D.P. Oznobishin, S.G. Skitalets, D.V. Grigorovich; historian [......]

Val-De-Marne, Department

In Ile-de-France Region, Val-de-Marne is composed of 47 municipalities. The confluence of the Seine and the Marne naturally makes it a département of water. It's one of the smaller French departments in area. On 10 July 1964, a law decreed the creation of new départements [......]

Vojvodina

Temerin is a town and municipality located in Serbia in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. They are part of the South Ba?ka District

Zhmerynka, City Council

Zhmerynka is a town in the Vinnytska Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Zhmerynka Raion (district), the town itself is also designated as a separate community within the oblast.

Partner associations

Act Integration Association

ACT INTEGRATION Association is located in Drobeta Turnu Severin city, in Mehedinti department, Romania. The NGO was founded in 2012, in order to promote youth coming from rural and urban area and their initiatives, to offer support and to stimulate active participation [......]

Advisory Board for Migration and Integration of Trier

Since 1994, the Advisory Board for Migration and Integration of Trier stands up for the interests of foreigners and immigrants. Currently, over 8,000 foreigners and a far greater number of people with an immigrant background live in Trier.


Our primary [......]

AFIES Foundation

Afies Foundation is a non-profit organisation, created in 2002, which aims at promoting active citizenship by training, research and surveys. By this objective  we are recently developing the European project "Operation Vote" in order to promote participation of [......]

Albanian Association of Communes

The Albanian Association of Communes is a national organization of 308 communes, established in August 1997, which has been strengthened and empowered due to members’ support and through cooperation with donors and partnerships with sister Associations.

We aim [......]

Association for Promoting Local Participation

The mission of our association is to have a “City Council” established, which already should have been founded on the basis of the instructions of the law on Municipalities in Turkish legislation (Nr.5393, Article 76) enacted in July 2005.

The City Council, as the [......]

Centre d'Information, de Documentation, d'Etude et de Formation des Elus

CIDEFE stands for the Centre for Information, Documentation, Study and Training of Elected Representatives.

With over 32 years of experience, CIDEFE is certified for the training of local officials. The aim is to promote efficiency through training, informing and [......]

Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Committee - Conference of INGOs

The Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Committee gathers 210 international NGOs and deals with a very wide range of issues, covering the work of four previous committees (democracy, sustainable development, health and poverty, North-South dialogue).
Yet [......]

Diaspora Forum for Development

The Diaspora Forum for Development (DFD) is a platform of more than 30 diaspora community organizations, platforms and networks from Africa, Asia and Latin-America. The platform was formed in 2007 after an experts’ meeting with the theme “Diaspora Organisations: [......]

European Federation of Schools

The European Federation of Schools is an NGO with consultative status in the Council of Europe.


Recently, it gathers 630 independent schools in France, in Europe and in other countries.

European Institute for professional reconversion of women

Professional reconversion of women is about promoting the skills and abilities acquired in one EU Member State to be recognized in an other. It must meet the challenges of globalization and transform the EU into a truly modern and competitive economy, [......]

Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso Issocco

The Fondazione Lelio and Lisli Basso-Issoco is an Italian non-profit organization, founded in 1973, recognized as Cultural Institute specialized in history, democracy and human rights. It is a renowned centre of research, information and debate focused on issues of national [......]

Institute for Urban Planning and Development of Paris (IAURP) - Ile de France

The Institute for Urban Planning and Development - Ile de France (IAU-idF) is a registered public utility foundation, member of the International Federation for Housing and Planning, an NGO with participatory status in the Council of [......]

Kianta, College

Kianta-College is a liberal education institute that offers comprehensive training in the area of education and professional development courses, as well as high-quality recreational opportunities for people of all ages. The aim is to promote the diversification of the development [......]

Lasipalatsi Mediacentre Ltd

Kontupiste

Kontupiste encourages learning and creativity through the use of technology. Kontupiste provides the residents of Mellunkylä region with information and guidance in computing and cultural services. An open access media lab and the Internet terminals at Kontupiste [......]

Local Democracy Agency of Prijedor

The Prijedor Local Democracy Agency  is an association established in 2000 to promote democratic values such as respect of law and transparency, protection of human rights and freedoms, protection of minority rights, and to support the process of democratization, [......]

Lviv School45 Euroclub "Harmony"

We are Euroclub of Lviv School45, specialised in English with the Russian language of tuition. We have over 1 000 pupils that represent more than 20 nationalities. So naturally promoting tolerance and democracy among both students, parents and local Russian community [......]

Macadam MixTalent WebWorkshop and Foundation

Macadam MixTalent Foundation aims to give children and young people affected by illness or living in hospitals or homebound around Europe and beyond, the opportunity to get to know other people, to get in contact with each other, to develop their personalities together, despite the limits of their health conditions. These children and young people stay in contact with their peers over the internet, develop their talents together and share their visions, feelings and ideas. Teachers from different countries facilitate this process and make use of the web workshop platform initiated by Greet Meesen in Diemen (Netherlands) to develop the Foundation's projects. Several mayors play important roles in supporting and developing this network which is an efficient and unique democratic tool.

No Hate Speech Movement - A Council of Europe Youth Campaign for Human Rights Online

Young People Combating Hate Speech Online is a project being run by the Council of Europe’s youth sector between 2012 and 2014. It aims to combat racism and discrimination, as expressed online as hate speech, by mobilizing young people and youth organisations to recognise [......]

Polignano R- evolution

The association " Polignano R -Evolution " , born in 2011, has among its objectives the promotion of active citizenship stuatuarie encouraging the involvement of citizens in Polignano a Mare in the decisions of public institutions using methods of participatory democracy [......]

South Lakeland District Council

South Lakeland District Council was formed in 1974 and is one of six district authorities in Cumbria. All councillors are elected for a term of 4 years. Elections covering one third of the district are held for three years out of four. In the fourth year, Cumbria County [......]

STUDIO D - Centre for Development & Dialogue

The Institute’s mission is to advance excellence in governance and development by:
1. ensuring that the professionalism and ideals of accountable governance are understood and valued;
2. learning through the exchange and expansion of knowledge in local development [......]