Andreas Canvin The 44-year old Leon Skriver Hansen is one Denmark's best ultrarunners. For over a decade, he's done countless races all over the world, running thousands of kilometers combined. In July this summer, he took on his biggest challenge yet - the world renowned Badwater 135 miles race, which is a 217 km. long [...]
Sarah Nipper I have in my 18-year-long-life never really made the acquaintance of the Virgin Islands, or the Danish West Indies as the islands were called a 100 years ago, when they were still under Denmark’s control. Yes, of course I have been conscious about the fact that there are a number of islands somewhere [...]
Astrid Lucia Offersen Amongst the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, is a goal concerning Gender Equality. For each goal an influential person from somewhere around the world hoisted a flag. For goal number 5, Gender Equality, the flag was hoisted by the Danish Crown Princess Mary. In some ways the goal is pretty specific; equality [...]
2016 is coming to an end and the LADDER Project wants to highlight one of the greatest success of this year: the Citizen Journalists Network! *** Around 40 citizens and non-professional journalists coming from Europe, the European Neighbourhoods and beyond, are the protagonists of the growing network of Citizen Journalists of LADDER project. The network [...]
Anna Elena Maria Ferrari The present agricultural policy is almost exclusively made at European Union level, but it is managed at national and regional level. In 1984, the EU introduced milk quotas to limit milk production in every member State, in order to end structural surpluses that outreached by far the demand. The limitation [...]
The results of the re-granting scheme of the LADDER project, supporting grass root actions on development education, can be now released also for Bulgaria! ALDA is pleased to announce here the 2 Bulgarian projects which have been awarded thanks to their significant proposals related to DEAR. We congratulate for this success, and we introduce you [...]
Maja Vargek Photo source: Pixabay Today, the world marks International Day of Tolerance. The day when we remind each other how important it is to accept other people's opinions, feelings or beliefs- things we seem to forget about lately. On November 16th, 1996, UNESCO launched the International Day of Tolerance, stating that “Tolerance [...]
Natia Shakaia Medicine is the field, which is vital for our existence. Like all other spheres even medicine went through its steps of development from the ancient time till now. It is obvious that going through these steps was not simple, as it required huge effort and the time of course. Though it was hard, [...]
Irene Vivas Lalinde COP 22 or “22nd Conference of Parties” was meant to shed light on the pathway to follow after the Paris Agreement, the star attraction of the previous Conference. Unfortunately, the shadow of Trump’s electoral victory has, on the one hand, keep the spirit of compromise alive in order to take steps forward [...]
In the framework of the European Local Democracy Week (an initiative of the Council of Europe) in Greece, University of Patras Radio Up Fm interviewed LADDER project manager, Nikos Gamouras on the importance of local democarcy and the ongoing activities regarding awareness raising. The questions of the journalists focused on the role that local stakeholders [...]
