TELECENTRE EUROPE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015
Completed
projects
e-UROPA: Enabling European e-Participation
Telecentre Europe and its 12 member organisations in 11 countries
(Albania, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Serbia, and Spain) created a project consortium to promote
citizens’ participation in policies and policy-making through the help of
ICT tools. The aim was to raise awareness among European citizens that
the EU is not something that happens only in Brussels, but is actually
just a click away!
Period:
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Source of funding:
Europe for Citizens
Programme
Coordinator:
Telecentre Europe
Website:
http://euparticipation.org/
With intention to create a new
tradition, project partners
celebrated 7th May as European
e-Participation Day. Over 1,700
participants attended many
activities – workshops, conferences,
webinars – organised in 11 countries
around Europe. Here is the video
summarising the day. Partners
launched an online competition
‘My e-Participation Story’ to collect
personal stories of citizens who have used EU or national e-Participation
tools. The winners of the competition were invited to the final
conference in Brussels.
On 25th September e-Participation topic was part
of Telecentre Europe Annual Conference agenda. A
dedicated workshop invited participants to discuss
the role of telecentres and the
importance of digital literacy
in enabling citizens to engage
with public institutions online,
use e-government services and
influence policy-makers. The
outcomes of the workshop fed
into a policy paper on the topic.
On 8th December Telecentre
Europe organised a multistakeholder conference
‘Enabling Civil e-Participation
in Europe’ in the European
Parliament. The event was
hosted by two Members of the
European Parliament: György
Schöpflin (EPP, Hungary) and
Marju Lauristin (S&D, Estonia).
The half-day conference
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consisted of two panels: (1) The role of ICT in
active citizenship and (2) Digital literacy, access and
provision of e-services. The conference was attended
by 80 people from 25 different
countries.
Following the conference an
international workshop for
NGO leaders was organised by
Telecentre Europe, kindly hosted
by the Delegation of Catalonia
to the EU. The workshop ‘The
role of CSOs in enabling Civil
E-participation in Europe’ brought
together 40 NGO representatives,
e-participation experts and civic
activists. Participants in two
working groups discussed issues
related to accessing e-government
services, structured e-participation
opportunities at EU level, and ICT
tools enabling grassroots citizens’
initiatives.