87 participants from the municipality of Krakovany(Slovakia), 28 participants from the city Szerencs (Hungary), 30 participants from the city of Vrbov\u00e9 (Slovakia),  6 participants from the civil association Communitas Europeana (Serbia), 14 participants from the city Kralice na Hane (Czech Republic), 16 participants from the city Ro\u017e\u0148ava (Slovakia).
\nLocation\/ Dates<\/strong>:<\/strong> The event took place in Podgora, Croatia, from 19\/08\/2016 to 22\/08\/2016<\/p>\n

Short description: <\/strong>The day of 19\/08\/2016 was dedicated to presentation of European parliament\u2019s representative on topic “Historical milestones in EU\u2019s creation, its achievements as basis of its solid future, to presentation of Strategy Europe 2020 and EU\u2019s enlargement, to shows of Slovak and Hungary into the EU\u2013experiences, problems, recommendations for ordinary citizens\u2019 lives, to minorities\u2019 rights protection in EU states \u2013 representative of Podgora \u2013 with emphasis on historical connections and Croatia\u2019s experiences, to presentation of the EU\u2019s members experiences with life in the EU, their entry, changes and problems in application of democratic values in citizens\u2019 lives, to presentation of instruments for EU policies application in practice \u2013 EU funds, European initiatives, elections. Participants learned topics of European citizenship, active participation in EU democratic life, enhance trust in the EU, implementation of EU policies in citizens\u2018 lives at the municipal level, citizens\u2018 fundamental rights. Government, associations, ordinary people gained knowledge about threats to democracy and peace in Europe, about current problems \u2013 migrants, borders closing, tolerance, help for third world’s citizens.<\/p>\n

The day of 20\/08\/2016 was dedicated to discussion forum of youths on topic: “Role of young people in EU\u2019s future creation” \u2013 addressing topics like current EU\u2019s issues \u2013 unemployment, confidence crisis, to presentation or “Public discussion” on topic: “Future of the EU and its security” \u2013 view on current European security situation with aim to put youths attention on risks that threaten building of democracy and common, prosperous Europe – migration, immigrants, closing of boarders Hungary-Serbia, Ukraine, Greece.<\/p>\n

21\/08\/2016 participants, as well as the public had the opportunity to gain overview of opportunities how to participate in voluntary service in the EU, information sources about them, form of engagement. At the same time they could familiar with printed publications dedicated to the EU themes. Various instruments that citizens can use as a form of exercising their rights and use of EU policies in their favour in everyday life at the municipal level were illustratively introduced.<\/p>\n

22\/08\/2016 the official closing conference took place connected with the recovery of the event, presentation of survey results and understanding the issues of active European citizenship, democratic values of the EU, the rights of European citizens, making the EU policies and opportunities to increase its knowledge among ordinary citizens with space for public debate, connected with the possibility of questioning the representatives of local and regional authorities and representatives of the project partners with a view to understanding the purpose of the event and its relevance to the lives of ordinary citizens and civil society actors working at the local level. During the event there was a convergence of thought and values of participants, presentation of the customs, traditions, formal and informal discussions, the presentation of cultural heritage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The project \u00ab For a common Europe – St.Vincenc day\u00b4s 2016 \u00bbwas funded with the support of the European Union under the Programme “Europe for Citizens”     Applicable to the Strand 2 \u2013 Measure 2.1“Town-Twinning\u201d Participation: The project involved 311 citizens, notably 130 participants from the city of Podgora (Croatia), 87 participants from the municipality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nezaradene","category-ostatne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krakovany.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}