POP UP EUROPE – Delivering Europe to its Citizens Erasmus Project

Project Title

POP UP EUROPE – Delivering Europe to its Citizens

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Over the last ten years, Euroscepticism has become visible and stable through the public opinion in European Member States. The European Parliament stated that:
• The future of Europe starts in towns and with citizens;
• Local authorities are best positioned to fight against populism – through implementation of projects.
The “Pop-Up Europe Delivering Europe to its citizens” project fits the statement of the European Parliament by providing training to staff members involved in EU policy on how to organise activities and awareness at local level for the general public and how to motivate people to become active European citizens.
The training has addressed the staff of the four Municipalities involved and/or public administrators of local authorities. The direct beneficiaries have been personnel working in European Offices of Municipalities.
Although there is plenty of training for public officials on European topics to be carried out at national level, literature shows a very limited existence of projects allowing sharing of experiences between Municipalities offices dealing with European union matters. The methodology used by the project is a results-oriented one. Informal training and on the job training are the best learning techniques in adult education. Participants in the training have exchanged their experiences in the information and awareness raising campaigns on European topics and they have sudied a best practice, which is the Pop Up Europe experience led by the Province of Antwerpen, winner of the Europcom “European Public Communication Award” in 2017. By organising joint short term training staff meetings, personnel working in municipalities got the chance to learn from each other and adapt the Pop-up tools to their local context organiseng Pop Up events.
The results during the project and on its completion are:
Promote good practices in terms of local governance and support the exchange of experiences between European offices of local authorities.
Strengthen project partners EU-related governance skills
Fight distrust and lack of cooperation among key actors in local community
Engage directly local governments and citizens to best learn of, grasp opportunities and meet the challenges that the EU integration implies. Besides the empowerment of staff in Municipalities the Pop Up project has delivered a specific tool-kit freely available to all European municipalities in five languages (Italian, English, Latvian, Portuguese and Flemmish): 12 recipes for municipalities to get a taste of Europe which is a
recipe book for municipalities. Each recipe guides through the various stages of developing activities and events on the European Union. It provides municipalities with information material, graphic designs and inspiration…in other words everything someone needs to start communication about Europe!

Project Website

https://www.comune.silvi.te.it/home/aree-tematiche/Ufficio-Europa.html

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59295 Eur

Project Coordinator

COMUNE DI SILVI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Gulbenes novada pasvaldiba
• PROVINCIE ANTWERPEN
• MUNICIPIO DE VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA