Meine Sprache- Deine Sprache- Gelingenheitsfaktoren guter Bürgerbeteiligung Erasmus Project

Project Title

Meine Sprache- Deine Sprache- Gelingenheitsfaktoren guter Bürgerbeteiligung

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The project “My language – your language” deals with success factors for good citizen participation.
The operational objective is to look at best methods and practices in the context of (civic) participation at the international level, to receive further training and to learn skills on how to achieve target group-oriented participation on the ground. The overall objective is social inclusion and the strengthening of civil society involvement and participation of previously uninvolved citizens.
The scientific discourse on citizen participation and its methods is extensive and controversial. Both science and practice state that people with an educational background participate and disadvantaged groups are excluded. In addition, practical experience shows that municipal calls for participation are generic and not adapted to the target groups to be reached, and that existing networking structures are not taken into account.

With the project “My language – your language – success factors for good civic participation” the four European partner organisations from Germany, Austria, Italy (with headquarters in France) and Spain would like to analyse the described gap of the lack of target group oriented access in accordance with the priorities “social inclusion” and “common values, civil society commitment and participation” and work on the following questions:
– What is the experience of partner organisations with participation of people of different ages and nationalities, who are interested in and distant from participation, as well as people who are close to and distant from education?
– Which best practice methods are there in the area of culturally sensitive addressing and participation in the partner countries?
– What influence do individual values, the living environment and interculturality have on
– access to people and their participation?

Through the Strategic Partnership, this topic is to be developed in four transnational workshops of several days’ duration in the partner countries. In their work, all partner organisations deal with the issue of participation of different target groups on an operational or strategic level. Due to the different focuses and expertise of the partner organisations, a large thematic breadth and depth is generated.

During the project period the project group will work on an OPERATIVE level with the
– the exchange of good practice in terms of content and differentiated access to different citizens and local diversity
– the international aspect in the context of participation
– and the educational approach resulting from the two aspects mentioned above
apart.

On an INDIVIDUAL level, the actors deal with different milieus and diversity on site in the workshops. This is intended to increase the empathy of the professionals towards the citizens. At the INSTITUTIONAL level, the innovative approach has an integrating effect, as the focus is on diversity and differentiated access to the respective groups. At LOCAL/ REGIONAL level the project is action-oriented. Participating actors should address target groups in their familiar language through networked, cross-functional learning. This promotes the connection between organisations and authorities at local and regional level. In addition, it has an integrating effect and strengthens the community and is intended to strengthen civic involvement. After completion of the project, social integration will be promoted and civic participation strengthened at SYSTEM LEVEL. It also promotes greater interaction between citizens, actors, administration and politics. The bottom-up approach will strengthen networking, communication and professional skills.
Documentation is provided through regular reporting on a project homepage and is disseminated locally through press reports, work in committees and network structures. In the future, a more in-depth examination of this topic is envisaged by addressing the target group via a proposal with intellectual output.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 40700 Eur

Project Coordinator

Christliche Sozialhilfe Köln e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION DES AGENCES DE LA DEMOCRATIE LOCALE
• Agrupación Europea de Cooperación Territorial León-Bragança
• Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen