The coordinating partner
Municipality of Catadau is the City Council of the village of Catadau with a population of approximately 2,800 inhabitants. The economy of the municipality is basically agricultural. This fact limits, in a certain way, the labor development of young people in the municipality.
Politically, the City Council is divided into seven areas, of which we highlight Youth, Equality and Citizen Participation. These areas are those that have, among their objectives, improving the employability of people between 16 and 30 years of age so that, in the near future, they can develop their vital project within the municipality.
Our organization, at the administrative level, has twelve workers. Among them, we have the Local Development Agent, who works transversally in all the areas delegated by the mayor's office and assumes the challenges for sustainable development set out in the different strategic plans, both at the municipal, regional, state and European levels. In the same way, we want to highlight the recent creation of a working group with young people from the municipality, with the aim of responding to their demands and developing a common project for their full development.
E-mail address: hroig@catadau.es
The consortium members
CREAS is a Spanish social consultancy expert in projects for public administration, companies, NGOs and universities at transnational, national, regional and local levels in the following topics: Social inclusion, Gender equality, Employment, Participation Processes, Local Development, Social Responsibility and the 2030 Agenda.
CREAS IDS counts on the experience accumulated since 1995, at national and international levels, by its founder and director, with the know-how of the extensive network of professionals with whom, during this period, she has worked on different projects and areas in countries such as Germany, Belgium, Bolivia, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Gambia and Mozambique.
Some of our previous experience on projects goes from developing research activities, coordination and management of networks, leading courses about various topics, workshops on SDGs, awareness campaigns, and development of research in social inclusion, gender equality, employment and social responsibility.
During the last few years, some of the most relevant projects that CREAS has worked on specifically are RETOS Net, a compilation of good practices in the national network of the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy mainly aligned with the SDGs that are more relevant for this project in particular: equality of gender, social inclusion, youth employment and sustainable cities. We have also given SDGs workshops in cities like Castellón council, addressed to several targets like youth people, civil servants and women.
Also, we have a continued relationship with an extensive network of public administrations, NGOs and Universities.
E-mail address: mcalvet@creas-ids.es ; pgocal@creas-ids.es
The Municipality of Lousada is an institution of local public administration. It aims to pursuit the interests of the population in the territorial space of Lousada Council.
The Municipality mission is to define guiding strategies and execute the resulting municipal policies towards sustainable development of the municipality, contributing to the increased competitiveness of it, in local, regional and national levels, through measures and programs in various areas of their competence, promoting the quality of life of its citizens and ensuring high standards of quality services.
Lousada is one of the youngest Municipalities in Portugal, so one of our main objectives is to elect youth as the best asset of the municipality and ensure transparent management and participatory politics.
E-mail address: carlos.sousa@cm-lousada.pt
Društvo za razvijanje prostovoljnega dela Novo mesto (Association for Developing Voluntary Work Novo mesto) is Slovenian non-governmental and humanitarian organization, working in the public interest in the fields of social care, youth and culture. Our mission is to contribute to a more inclusive and open society for all. Our two leading programs therefore deal with inclusion of socially excluded groups and with the stimulation of the NGO development and civil dialogue. Our activities within the programs are performed by expert and voluntary work. We promote the values of solidarity, tolerance, voluntarism, active citizenship, clean environment, citizenship awareness and intercultural dialogue, and citizen participation.
DRPDNM has 30 years of experience in education, youth, citizens, migrants, refugees, woman, families, workers, NEETs, Roma, empowerment, international cooperation, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, intercultural competencies, sport, advocacy, international cooperation, rural development, health, hate speech, sustainable development, professions in history, culture and art, unemployment, disadvantaged groups empowerment, trainings, seminars, conferences, workshops and other activities that serve the goals of your projects.
E-mail adress: snjezana.blagojevic@drpdnm.org
Fondazione Mondo Digitale is a knowledge-oriented non profit organization, established in 2001 through a public-private partnership between the Municipality of Rome and 6 large ICT companies. The main operational headquarters is at the Città Educativa in Rome, the center of best practices and innovation, but we have activated other territorial hubs in Milan, Terni, L'Aquila, Palermo and Catania.
For over twenty years we have been committed to spreading the culture of innovation for a new knowledge economy as an engine for the country's development. We use digital technologies as a social accelerator, to fuel growth, well-being, productivity and competitiveness, convinced that an innovative ecosystem is a value for everyone, from citizens to businesses to cities. We work for a democratic knowledge society by combining innovation, education, inclusion, and core values so that the benefits benefit all people without excluding or leaving anyone behind. We work locally, nationally and internationally, developing models of intervention that can be replicated everywhere. Almost 200 social inclusion and innovation projects have been implemented so far, also financed with European funds. We intervene in emergencies with innovative and systemic solutions in strategic sectors for the country's development, precisely in terms of GDP (school dropouts, youth unemployment, gender equality, active aging, etc.).
E-mail adress: a.mazzucato@mondodigitale.org
ALDA is a French-registered association dedicated to the promotion of good local governance and citizen participation at local level in the European Union, its neighborhood and beyond. It is a global alliance of associations, civil society organizations and local governments supporting local democracy and active citizen engagement.
The Association works with members and partners to develop projects that support its mission to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda. During its 20 years of activity ALDA has developed more than 450 projects and reached almost 25 million citizens. Today, it is a wide and consolidated network with more than 350 members from 45 countries, 16 Local Democracy Agencies (LDAs) and 3 Operating Partners (Ops). In addition, in 2017 ALDA launched ALDA+, the benefit corporation owned by ALDA and dedicated to the provision of trainings, ad hoc consultancies and specialized services in all the fields where ALDA has been operating for more than 20 years. Indeed, ALDA+ represents the capitalisation of the experience of ALDA in the fields of local democracy, participatory processes and project-cycle management.
What we do:
To promote good governance and citizen participation at local level across Europe and beyond, ALDA carries out a wide range of actions supporting local, national and international actors in achieving their objectives in the field of European integration, decentralization, human rights, social inclusion, sustainable development, civic initiatives and much more.
ALDA works with a multistakeholder approach looking at a wide spectrum of potential resources in local communities. The Association represents a wide network of citizens and local authorities fully committed to support local democracy and empowerment of local communities through citizen participation, in Europe and beyond.
E-mail adress: alessia.marzotto@alda-europe.eu