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, [...]
Shady Rabhi It’s nice to dream, and within dreams we look for what we are not able to find in reality. And through imagination we start getting inspired, giving birth to art. Art is the tool we use to express ourselves, to love, to move, to protest, to make things happen. In Kasserine, my hometown [...]
Joni Wijhers Talent for Governance is the talent programme of The Hague Academy for Local Governance. The programme provides young, accomplished civil servants working for local governments in developing and transitional countries the opportunity to follow a training course with The Hague Academy and a short internship with a Dutch municipality. Through this experience, young [...]
Muriel Wagner They were some of the largest protests in Hungary since years. The streets have been filled with ten thousands of protesters marching against the close down of the renowned Central European University and against stigmatizing civil society organisations. People were protesting peacefully, but passionately. © Előd Gellért Gergely For the last [...]
Anna Elena Maria Ferrari Electorate databases and voters targeting are nowadays part of the political campaign professional research techniques. We live in the era of ‘market-oriented’ political parties, where voters are viewed as customers. In this context, many researchers believe that electorate databases are essential in the development and efficient use of methods such [...]
Ana Maria Ilie We live in a global, interconnected world! A world in which what we do every day, our day-to-day decisions and behavior have an impact not only on ourselves, but on other people as well, from other countries or continents. Global Interdependencies, Pollution, Climate Change, Water and Eco Footprint, Sustainable Lifestyle, 3R [...]
Irene Vivas Lalinde We are constantly receiving information through social media. Whether this data becomes a stimulus or remains as a gig, like, a comment, or a share depends on the awareness and empowerment of the receptor. The seed of Proyecta Valencia is our passion for citizen’s participation and the acknowledgment of the transformative [...]
Dominik Bartol Human beings have been around and living as nomads for more than 300 000 years. Just 'recently', We have started to settle down; and around 3000 years BC, the Sun began to appear over the horizon of the future Civilization with the invention of the writing system; which allowed Us to share the [...]
Farouk Garali Tunisia is now in the process of a local democracy transaction. The question is: is our role as a young person and as an active civil society transparent? For a beginning, we adhere that our country is engaged in a process of fundamental transformations which is based on major achievements including: the consecration [...]
Dominik Bartol It seems like a distant past when We used to see the People voluntarily contributing to the community on every day basis. Truly; it was irrelevant whether they were strangers or not, because that was the mentality of the older generations. People used to pay more attention to other People within their communities, [...]