About Us

EU24- Engage for the Planet  brings together 4 leading organisations from across the EU, including non-governmental organisation, foundation and network organisations. If you want to be put in touch with specific partners, please write to eu24planet@alda-europe.eu 

The Project

EU24 Engage for the planet project aims to decrease the democratic participation gap of young citizens, citizens of diverse backgrounds, mobile union citizens in a gender balanced way by showing them their voices matter. While the turnout in the last EU election was the largest in 25 years, citizens of diverse backgrounds and mobile union citizens remain underrepresented among active EU voters as well as democratic engagement. As a central topic climate change is the biggest threat to humanity today and it needs transnational and multinational solutions.

DONOR

 EACEA 

EU COUNTRIES

5

MONTHS

20

TIME FRAME

2022-2024

Partners

ALDA

ALDA, the European Association for Local Democracy, is a global alliance of local and regional authorities and civil society actors working together with a participative approach for resilient, inclusive, and sustainable communities. To promote good governance and citizen participation at the local level in the whole of Europe and beyond, ALDA leads a wide range of actions supporting stakeholders in achieving their goals in the fields of European integration, decentralisation, human rights, social inclusion, sustainable development, civic initiatives and much more. It works with a multistakeholder approach looking at a broad spectrum of the potential resources in the local communities. The Association has a network of 350 members, including local and regional authorities and civil society associations from more than 45 different countries.
www.alda-europe.eu 

www.surveymonkey.com

Comparative Research Network

CRN is actively involved in scientific research, teaching and cultural activities that link the realm of ideas with everyday experience. As our name indicates, we work internationally and cross-culturally. Only through thoughtful comparison can we interpret our local reality, render it more comprehensible and develop strategies to address the issues that affect our everyday lives. CRN performs research both as a partner within international consortia as within the scope of its own projects. CRN publishes a working paper series that communicates the work of its members to a wider audience.
https://crnonline.de/

www.surveymonkey.com

EGEA Alumni

The European GEography Association, abbreviated EGEA, is a European network of geography students and young geographers, with the intention of exchanging geographical knowledge. EGEA Alumni connects former members of EGEA As a network of working professionals EGEA Alumni supports international exchange of knowledge, shares experience and promotes geography. EGEA Alumni realises its goals through our focused task forces, organising meet-ups, webinars and other activities. EGEA Alumni stays in close contact with EGEA and invites all graduates to join the alumni network.
https://egea.eu/egea-alumni

www.surveymonkey.com

Open Plan Foundation 

Open Plan Foundation is established in 2014, a non-governmental, educational and research organization whose main goal is to work for civil society and environmental protection. Actively, by using methods of climate, transformative and global education, we create materials (publications for teachers and students, workshops, trainings) and act to put into practice the idea of a just world.
https://otwartyplan.org

www.surveymonkey.com

Almost There

Almost There is a change management agency located in Gothenburg (Sweden). Since 1998 Almost There manages and cooperates in projects promoting societal change and integration, both on national and international levels. It does it on commission or in cooperation with enterprises in the private, public and NGO sector.
The main part of the company´s revenue is reinvested to enable creation of new platforms, business models and long-term sustainability.
Almost There is the founder of an educational programme called Foodmaker, that thought about alternative and more sustainable ways to produce, transform and preserve food.
www.almostthere.se

Scope

EU24-Engage for the planet scope

EU 24 – Engage for the planet will implement gender-balanced blended exchange events between domestic and mobile union citizens in the fields of climate justice, climate change and sustainability – in 5 European countries (Poland, Germany, Netherlands, France and Sweden) over a period of 20 months. The project aims to decrease the democratic participation gap of young citizens, citizens of diverse backgrounds, mobile union citizens in a gender balanced way by showing them their voices matter.

While the turnout in the last EU election was the largest in 25 years, citizens of diverse backgrounds and mobile union citizens remain underrepresented among active EU voters as well as democratic engagement. As a central topic climate change is the biggest threat to humanity today and it needs transnational and multinational solutions. We therefore contribute in this field to the creation of a strong European political community which is (inter-)active, diverse and able to form and express opinions in political debate.

For this purpose we create blended debate events across Europe, that are framed by an innovative E-Democracy platform, bridge the language barrier between participants between & within countries, bring together citizens from diverse backgrounds in debate, utilise wide reach & playful content for facilitating political debate & engagement for the EU 24 Election, enable participants to link local issues of climate change, climate justice & sustainability to EU policies & policy recommendations, stimulate gender-balanced & diversity-oriented participation of young (16-25) & younger citizens (26-39), citizens with migrant background, mobile union citizens. All events are linked through a poster competition on climate related topics.

Activities

WP1

-Project coordination and mobilisation event

This Work Package will ensure the allover project success by establishing the following standards and processes:
1) PROJECT PROGRESS MANAGEMENT 
2) FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & ACCOMPANYING AND CONTROLLING BUDGET EXECUTION

WP2

-How to Engage for the Planet
(face-to-face)

Work Package 2 aims to research, develop and implement a pilot debate event in which topics concerned with climate change and sustainability in the regions and countries of the partnership are exchanged and debated in context of the EP faction positions. 

WP3

-How to Engage for the Planet (online)

Work Package 3 aims to research, develop and implement a blended debate format that links an E-Democracy platform to debate topics concerned with climate change and sustainability. In the blended debate events local issues of climate change and sustainability are linked to European level of policies and policy makers via a combination of online and face-to-face exchanges between participants including European Parliament candidates, MEPs and European Commission representatives. The discussed topics, the themes of the debates in each partner country (WP4-7) are fed into WP3 from the outcome of WP2.

WP4

-Engage the Planet for Mobility

The objective is to Prepare, Conduct and Document Blended citizens debate 1 (Straßbourg, France). The specific climate change and sustainability theme (mobility) will be developed together with participants from the regions in the  pilot debate in WP2 from the subject areas contributed by the partners to the needs assessment: Energy demand and prices, sustainable food production, green mobility, biodiversity and social climate justice.

WP5

-Climate Debate: Food Production

The objective is to Prepare, Conduct and Document Blended citizens debate 2. The specific climate change and sustainability theme (food production) will be developed together with participants from the regions in the  pilot debate in WP2 from the subject areas contributed by the partners to the needs assessment: Energy demand and prices, sustainable food production, green mobility, biodiversity and social climate justice.

WP6

-Climate Debate: Energy

The objective is to Prepare, Conduct and Document Blended citizens debate 3 (Groningen, Netherlands). The specific climate change and sustainability theme (energy) will be developed together with participants from the regions in the pilot debate in WP2 from the subject areas contributed by the partners to the needs assessment: Energy demand and prices, sustainable food production, green mobility, biodiversity and social climate justice.

WP7

-Climate Debate: Social Climate Justice

The objective is to Prepare, Conduct and Document Blended citizens debate 4 (Berlin, Germany). The specific climate change and sustainability theme (Social Climate Justice) will be developed together with participants from the regions in the pilot debate in WP2 from the subject areas contributed by the partners to the needs assessment: Energy demand and prices, sustainable food production, green mobility, biodiversity and social climate justice.

WP8

-Dissemination and Communication

WP8 plays a major part in the project as it:
● strengthens & supports the outreach and exchange of information among/between partners and stakeholders
● widely spreads good practices, policy recommendations, information on party positions and on the covered topics from the particular activities to an audience
● aids the sustainability and replicability of the project achievements around Europe and beyond
WP8’s objectives are:
● Communication and outreach of EU 24 – Engage for the Planet`s activities and achieved results
Consisting of:
● Mobilisation to blended events and participants for EU24 – Engage for the Planet`s Poster Competition
● Communicating and disseminating the event documentations, poster competition entries
● Mobilisation to EU24 Election