http://www.activeineurope.org/en Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:49:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_303" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Maicen Ekman, Hélène Clark and Åke Gustavsson. Photo: Christine Cars-Ingels."][/caption] At the 5th of November the conferences appeal was handed over to Hélène Clark and Judit Safrany, at the European Commissions’ directorate of Education and Culture, and to the Swedish Members of EU Parliament Cecilia Wikström (FP) ... http://www.activeineurope.org/en/2009/11/06/appeal-to-the-eu-institutions/ Medborgarskolans Dance to Democracy was a much appreciated part of the conference. Dance to Democracy consists of young peopole who have danced all over Sweden to convince the citizens to vote in the European elections. Medborgarskolan then had a competition where the winning contribution went to Gothenburg and danced before ... http://www.activeineurope.org/en/2009/10/01/dance-to-democracy/ You can download the US expert Niklas Nordströms presentation of Active Citizenship in the US here. The presentation is related to the Barack Obama campaign, his methods and what we can learn by it in Europe. Download the presentation here, Active_Citizenship_in_the_US. The photo is taken by Salla Järvinen. http://www.activeineurope.org/en/2009/03/10/program/ Europe by Satellite, the European Unions TV information service, filmed parts of the conference. Watch the film here. http://www.activeineurope.org/en/2009/03/10/seminarieforslag/ Active Citizenship in Europe was a European non formal adult education conference which took place at the Musem of World Culture in Gothenburg with a total of 400 participants, on September 29-30 2009. The participants came from around twenty different countries, from non formal adult education organisations, other NGOs, civil servants ... http://www.activeineurope.org/en/2009/03/04/featured-article/