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PRESeNTATION of the municipality of nea alikarnassos

PRESeNTATION of the municipality of nea alikarnassos. Dissemination Workshop 22-23 JUNE 2010. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY. Specific objectives

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PRESeNTATION of the municipality of nea alikarnassos

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  1. PRESeNTATION of the municipality of neaalikarnassos Dissemination Workshop 22-23 JUNE 2010

  2. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Specific objectives The main goal of our strategy before EU elections was to inform the young people in our Municipality about the real meaning of the European elections and about the influence their vote has in the future of Europe and all Europeans. We informed them about the date of the elections, the procedure and the place they could vote. We had to persuade young people to vote in the EU elections and especially the very young people that voted for the first time. But the main goal wasn’t the participation in the EU elections. The goal was (and is) for: Young people to participate generally, actively in all matters and to express their opinion.

  3. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Our main target group Young people in the age group 18-30 who live, study and/or work in the area of our Municipality. Local Youth Council: comprised of a group of young people in the area of Nea Alikarnassos and established on March 2008.

  4. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Activities we fulfilled • Creation of an informative new website (www.eurovote.gr) • Creation of a facebook account (youth council – nea alikarnassos), a twitter account (twitter.com/nea_alikarnasos) and a blog www.eurovote.gr/blog) for our local group (we gave to the young people a variety of modern tools for communication and interaction) • Interviews of young people of our area, expressing their opinion about EU elections and participatory democracy (in our website)

  5. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Press release in order to make sure that we attract the interest of young people. We used our municipal newspaper “Nea Alikarnassos” that the municipality of Nea Alikarnassos distributes free of charge to all citizens, the local monthly newspaper “The Khronicles” that is for migrants in which our municipality has its own page, the local radio stations, the local newspapers (Nea Kriti, Patris, Tolmi, Mesogios) the local TV stations (esp. Channel 4 – the TV station of university), of course the website of the municipality (www.nea-alikarnassos.gr) and other websites(www.naftemporiki.gr, www.ethnos.gr etc)

  6. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Meetings with local cultural groups, organizations, athletic teams who have the biggest impact on our target group to explain to them about developing participatory democracy. In our area exists the local organization of youngsters and ten (10) cultural organizations. • We approached the young people, pupils and students of the local High School and local Technical School through their teachers and the parents’ organizations.

  7. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Typed and distributed flyers and posters about the European elections and participatory democracy.

  8. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Open debate (before elections) – The panel consisted of two young politicians (of Crete) and a professor of the University of Crete (dept. of Political Studies) • Organized an open musical event for young people

  9. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY Activities we fulfilled • Presentation to the pupils of the 2 local Highschools (General and Technical School) of the program (it was done by two members of our local group) • Creation and distribution of a Questionnaire for the pupils of the 2 High schools which was distributed twice to the same group of students (17-18 years old) initially following the above presentation by the local group and secondly after the actions realized in Highschools.

  10. LOCAL REGENERATION FORUMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY • Collection and analysis of questionnaires and comparative evaluation of results • Organizing in cooperation with teachers a competition of writing an essay about the reasons young people are not interested in local activities today and the virtues that should distinguish the conscious democratic citizen in his/her everyday life – 6 students were awarded for the best written essay • Creation of notebook as a gift memorandum for all highschool students, teachers and local youth Council who participate in the project and publicity of the program • Conference with a panel of specialists (with the participation of political persons, professor of the university, coordinator of the young group youth net Hellas , teachers of both Highschools and pupils)

  11. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ATTENTION ReniaDrosou Head Director of Planning Development and Social Policies develop-drosou@nea-alikarnassos.gr IroTsamandoura Executive of Planning Development and Social Policies develop-tsamandoura@nea-alikarnassos.gr IoannaKariotaki Executive reporter of Planning Development and Social Policies develop-kariotaki@nea-alikarnassos.gr

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