Clubs4Europe

The Clubs4Europe project offers arena for the voices of the rural people on core topics as citizens’ participation, equality, democracy, inclusion and diversity in all spheres of the daily life, promoting learning opportunities for people from different cultures and generations.

The project is focused on the horizontal programme priorities of Common values, civic engagement and participation, and Inclusion and diversity in all fields of education. They're complemented by the priority in the adult education sector of Creating and promoting learning opportunities among all citizens and generations.

Objectives

To promote learning opportunities to people from different generations, deepening their knowledge on EU values, institutions, and policies through organising public debates and workshops on EU's achievements and challenges.
To foster the sense of European identity among citizens from rural zones and provide them with the opportunity to interact actively, to participate in the democratic life of the Union, reaching people from 3 remote zones and bridging the current intercultural and social divide.
To involve local communities and citizens in actions to combat stigmatisation of disadvantaged members of the community and to foster tolerance and empathy, which in turn brings about more cohesive, democratic, forward-looking, and constructive Europe.
To overcome the existing inequality caused by the province-city territorial relationship and work in different territorial realities - towns, small cities, municipal centres, regional centres, incl. social networks.
To strengthen the activist type of political culture and encourage rural citizens to actively seek information on EU policies and bring about a practical change of attitudes for active participation in the decision-making process at local, regional, national and European level (participation in national elections and the 2024 European Parliament elections).

Here's your chance to make a difference! Take part in the #Europe&me video contest targeting adult citizens who live in rural areas. The winners will have the possibility to visit the EU institutions in Brussels.

Dissemination and Multiplier events

All partners will be supported at local/regional level by public & private bodies to disseminate widely the project's results and ensure their sustainability. Multiplier events are planned in each partner country in the final project phase, including as an international event a visit to the EU institutions (European Commission, EU Parliament & Committee of the Regions) in Brussels (Belgium) for the rural citizens, winners of the video contest run in the frame of the project.

4/3/20231 min read

Clubs4Europe in Bulgaria, Slovakia & Spain

The partners are implementing Clubs4Europe workshops for adult learners to help them acquire knowledge on issues of European importance, and to give them possibility to participate in debates on the future of Europe, to engage with the EU idea and actively participate in the democratic life of the Union, overcoming the intercultural and intergenerational divide of the society.

4/1/20231 min read

Target groups:

a) adults form rural EU zones and different generations, reached through individual visits, social media and mobile car unit;

b) participants in the local workshops and debates in the partners' provinces and other localities of the involved EU regions;

c) citizens over 18 years old, participants in thematic contests, forums, campaigns, developed by the partnership;

d) representatives of local and regional authorities, institutions and organisations interested in European programmes, projects and participation in European networks;

e) professors and lecturers who participate in round tables and thematic seminars; university professors from the regions;

f) other stakeholders, NGOs, media, adult education providers from the partners' countries and other European regions.