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Youth Parliament
The overall objective is to raise the involvement of youth in local democracy. To involve youths in the democratic process is an important issue that regards all countries in the world, including Sweden and Turkey. When it comes to the Swedish youths, the ultimate goal is to create political commitment considering international issues and local…
Enterprise Democracy
The overall objective of the project is to create conditions towards the insight that a new democratic governance structure must be implemented to achieve societal change in all spheres and sectors. The preparatory phase, between the municipality of Lidköping and Novi Grad Sarajevo, ended up in a cooperation project called Enterprise Democracy. The project has…
Paving way for support and skills-training of dropouts
The project objective sets a good and dynamic cooperation between public and voluntary actors when it comes to identifying, approaching and supporting young males and females, which have dropped out of school/education and gone into open unemployment. After two years of working together, the project partners have mapped internal relations, clarified responsibilities, exchanged best practices…
Waste Management Vietnam
In 2010, collaboration between the An Giang province and the city of Växjö in the area of climate change and environmental awareness was initiated. Since then we have strengthened our collaboration by visiting each other to learn more about our different challenges and possibilities. We have participated and conducted different workshops that has strengthened their…
Awareness III – Local Sustainable Marin Food
The City of Malmö recently adopted the new Global Goals For Sustainable Development and made a commitment to implement them on a local level. This project also has an aim to promote partnerships between “North and South” which is in line with the goal ”Partnerships for the goals” (no. 17). This project specifically focuses on…
Tlokwe Inclusivity Disability Sector II
The two-year project aims to build capacity on local and regional level in order to start and develop daily activities for persons with mental and learning disability coming from the previously disadvantaged areas in Potchefstroom. Today there is a problem that young adults with disabilities after finishing school have nowhere to go and they end…
Public Relations, Best Practices 3
This is a one year project resulting from the previously established cooperation between the municipality of Växjö and Tlokwe city council. The project has been operational for two years and this is the third year of implementation. The aim of the project is to improve on the standards of local democracy and administration in Tlokwe…
Potential Alternative Energy Sources for Swakopmund
This is a three-year project resulting from the cooperation between Malmö municipality and Swakompund in Namibia. The cooperation is in the field of environmental management and this is aimed at improving on the usage of different sources of energy other than coal. The objectives of the project are to provide hot water for the townships…
Political presence and involvement in regional development – exchange of experiences between Sarajevo and Östergötland
The project consists of two main events, i.e. two seminars that will be organized as an arena for exchange of experiences, one seminar in Sarajevo and one in Östergötland. The seminar will give the politicians in both countries a chance to exchange experiences about the political role in regional development, regional challenges, political development strategies,…
Democracy through Theatre
The project Democracy Through Theatre (henceforth referred to as DTT) levels at a reciprocal exchange of experiences, a competence progress and a deepened knowledge about human rights, democracy and equality. The DTT project will develop forms and methods to strengthen local democracy through initiation and reinforcement of democratic processes for teachers, principals, educationalists, youth at…
