Kristina Hudekova On the international non-shopping day we made a test to see if people are willing to buy unethical products when they have all information about their origin. We opened a stall on a farmer’s market where we sold very cheap chocolate, coffee, bananas and other goods and openly told every customer that, for example, on the [...]
Alexandra Pihet Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic garbage from all over the world makes its way to oceans. Food wrappers, caps, cups, plates, bottles, bags, straws and other discarded items make up 90% of floating marine debris. Caught up in currents, this waste is accumulating in 5 giant garbage patches all around [...]
Maya Vargek Walking through the city a month ago, I saw a young woman with a small child on the street begging for money... people were turning their heads, even somebody said some nasty comment there. I stand there for a few minutes and look ... I felt sad because no one has approached [...]
Julie Capelle On May 10, 11 and 12 2017, about 160 international stakeholders working on the strengthening of local democracy from all over the world gathered in Torun, Poland for the ‘’Ladder Tool Fair’’. Organized by ALDA in the framework of the LADDER project, the event aimed – as its name indicates – to [...]
Rosa Uliassi «My dissertation is born to a beautiful fairy tale: that of a little girl who grows up and learns from a grandfather how to draw the sea waves or how to raise a life, starting with a tomato plant» Today we are speaking a lot about the question of inclusion: religious, cultural, ethnic, [...]
Giovanni Marco Scavelli The recent Citizen Participation University in Hungary, has been an ideal place where community, civic and professionals from 15 countries, took an active role in solidarity with the Hungarian civil society. It has been a 5 days of intensive learning and community building where resistance has been embraced as a common effort [...]
Rosa Uliassi It has just ended one of my favourite summer initiatives, which has been fighting discrimination and xenophobia for more than twenty years: “I Mondiali Antirazzisti” (Anti-Racism World Cup). This international sport event for racial inclusion, organized by UISP (Italian Union Sport for everyone), takes place every year in the small town of Castelfranco [...]
Karoline Bredmose Thomsen The SDGs, sustainable development goals, are the UN's attempt to set an agenda and an outline for how to create a better world. A sustainable environment. Active citizens. Happy people who believe in the future for their children. All of this is admirable, but what do the 17 goals actually mean to [...]
Rosa Uliassi England has just got out of an unexpected and agitated election campaign. I have the luck to live with an English guy, who is quite interested in politics and in his country future. We have been speaking a lot about what was happening in England, what is going to happen with Brexit, [...]
Rosa Uliassi Today, it’s two months that I’ve been living in Brighton. I decided to move here because I wanted to improve my English. I had never heard it before, but London seemed too big and too busy for my first experience in England, so I prefered this small and colourful city by the sea. [...]