10th October 2008.In the presence of more than 60 participants, international and local partners, representatives of the Albanian government, local authorities, civil society organisations, media, ALDA has opened a new LDA: LDA Albania, based in Shkodra. The partners of the new LDA -the host city of Shkodra, city of Brindisi, Region Puglia (Italy), city of Fraize...

7 october 2008.Marking its 10th Anniversary of promoting local democracy in the Western Balkan countries and Caucasus, the Association of Local Democracy Agency is opening the new LDA in Albania, which will be based in Shkodra. The launch of the new LDA is scheduled for the 10th October in the City Hall of Shkodra. The Programme of the main event starting at 10.00...

3rd October 2008. Antonella Valmorbida ALDA Director was successfully (35 votes against 18) elected as President of the Civil Society and Democracy Committee of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe. Antonella Valmorbida's experience and dedication was appreciated and led her to win the Presidency. Since 1999, Antonella Valmorbida is the Director of the...

23 September 2008.The Association of the Local Democracy Agencies and the Local Democracy Agency in Kutaisi are organising a fundraising activity in support of internally displaced people in Georgia. The official launch will take place in Strasbourg on 2nd October 2008 at 11.00 in the building of the Council of Europe, with the participation of the Mayor of Kutaisi,...

30 September 2008.The Association of the Local Democracy Agencies is organising a 2-days training on European active citizenship. It will take place from the 1st of October until the 3rd of October in Brussels. 10 trainers from all-over Europe have been selected to take part in this training session that aims at improving their knowledge of the European Commission's...

29 September 2008.Since 1999, Antonella Valmorbida is the Director of the Association of the Local Democracy Agencies, European Organization which promotes local democracy, governance and citizen's participation. From the start, she contributed to the strength of the Association by focusing its action, developing the number and the quality of the members and...

16 Settembre 2008. L'Associazione delle Agenzie della Democrazia Locale, in collaborazione con l'Unioncamere - Eurosportello del Veneto e Europe Direct, promuove per il giorno 29 settembre 2008 un seminario dal titolo "Responsabilita' Sociale delle Imprese e Cittadinanza attiva: partecipare alla costruzione dell'Europa!". Il seminario avra' luogo presso la sede di...

31.07.2008-ALDA promotes together with the City of Reggio Emilia three days seminar "Governing with citizens: Local democracy, participation and civicness", on the 14-15-16 October 2008.The seminar will call public administrations to present their experiences with reference to decision-making processes and to active citizenship/ horizontal subsidiarity. Best Practices...

In the framework of its project "Local economic development in the Balkans" supported by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, ALDA organises from the 2nd to the 4th of September a grouping seminar in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project which started in 2003, allowed the training of 18 local development agents spread into 9 Local Development Agencies. These...

29 aout 2008.Le 17 et 18 septembre 2008, à Caen, se tiendra le Comité de Pilotage de la deuxième année d'un vaste programme de coopération décentralisée entre Basse Normandie et l’Ancienne République Yougoslave de Macédoine.Ce programme est financé par le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères de France et la Région Basse Normandie, maitre d'oeuvre du projet...

Brindisi, 2nd September 2008.Establishing the new Local Democracy Agency is a process that includes an adequate and effective partnership network, commitment of all the partners involved, but also a vision of the role to be played by a new local team of enthusiasts and people who will be working in a local context. The partnership network of an Agency is the most...

The recent tragic events in Georgia caused a huge flow of population leaving many internally displaced people without a shelter and any means for living. Our Local Democracy Agency based in Kutaisi is part of the local coordination team for the support of the IDPs and try to alleviate every day and every hour the distress of all these people. We have all been asked...

The Local Democracy Agency based in Osijek, Croatia, presents its the rich and challenging newsletter with the overview of the latest projects and activities. Newsletter August 2008 LDA Osijek

            ALDA intends to develop a pilot action of fellowship at ALDA, offering young students and/or employees of local authorities the opportunity to get a professional experience on the topic of local democracy and active citizenship, in an international NGO such as ALDA. The interest for launching such a project is that the fellows will get professional...

ALDA launches a Call for Partners to promote in their local communities its pilot training module on active European citizenship.The Association of the Local Democracy Agencies, taking into consideration the growing interest in Europe regarding active citizenship and European citizenship in particular, intends to launch the present Call for Partners to develop pilot...

Thanks to the programme YOUTH, the Right Direction, sponsored by the European Commission, a new group of news people set up an innovative and challenging Youth programme in Nis, in Central and Southern Serbia. They are fully equipped with skills and goodwill for the future. One of the strategic priorities of LDACSS in the next period will be work with the youth in...

Opening of the LDA Georgia in 2006 The President of the Association of the Local Democracy Agencies, M. Per Vinther, sent to the Ambassador of Georgia in Strasbourg a letter stating the concern for what is happening in Georgia. He condemned the military operation and he confirmed our support to all the people suffering in the area. The LDA Georgia - lead by the...

25 young people from most former Yugoslavian countries and European Union crossing the Balkans from Croatia to Albania, passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, visiting the Local Democracy Agencies, sharing their daily life, viewpoints and ideas among them and with the locals, discovering the places and writing common projects in regular workshops. This...

ALDA is looking for trainers who will be involved in preparation and carrying out of the "Pilot trainings on active European citizenship for local authorities and civil society in Europe". The training aims at strengthening knowledge and skills of local authorities and civil society organizations which are interested in the topic of active citizenship and in the...

The activity of the working groups, composed by ALDA members, aims at the exhibitions of documents/papers that will be exchanged and shared between the members and uploaded on this website in a dedicated section. This activity will be an opportunity given to the members to know each other and to exchange their experiences and best practices. The activities and the...

The European Civic Forum, that acts in order to encourage an active European citizenship and a strong civil dialogue at European level, presents the "European Civic Days" in La Rochelle (France) on 4,5,6 September 2008. The event called "Mobility, Dialogue, Participation: towards an active European citizenship", addresses NGO and institution leaders and aims at...

L'expérience d'assistance á la coopération décentralisée de l'Association des ADL sera présentée ces jours-ci lors des Premières rencontres régionales de la coopération décentralisée qui se tiennent à Sofia, en Bulgarie. Cette rencontre permet aux collectivités des Balkans et de la France de mettre en commun leur expérience sur les thèmes de la...

The Stability Pact for South and Eastern Europe, one of the major organisation acting for the Balkans' civil society support and organisation of donors activities, has made a donation to the Association of the Local Democracy Agencies last week. Indeed the Stability Pact in Brussels closing down its activities left 21 computers and office furniture and equipment....

  This week, in Strasbourg, is taking place the Summer University of the Political School of the Council of Europe. The programme is aiming at developing the capacities and understanding of democratic process of young promising leaders in Europe, in particular from Eastern and Southern and Eastern Europe. The programme is growing every year in terms of participants...

A conference on Citizens' Participation organised by the Asociation of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA) and the Organisation of Young European Federalist of Austria ( JEF) took place Thursday the 15th of May in the Palais Palffy in Vienna. Introducing the conference Friedhelm Frischenschlager, federal Chairman of UEF; Per Vinther, Excutive President of ALDA;...

  Mayors of the biggest cities of the voivodship: Bydgoszcz, Grudziadz, Inowroclaw, Torun, WÃ…‚ocÃ…‚awek participated in the meeting. Although topic of the meeting was "Role of System of Spatial Information (GIS) in city management, case study of pilot program for Bydgoszcz" the following point of the meeting was information of participation Bydgoszcz in...

Le Courrier de la Macédoine- Glasnikot, a organisé avec l'Alliance française de Tetovo et avec le partenariat de l'Université du Sud Est, une table ronde intitulée « Les médias locaux macédoniens face à leurs défis » qui a eu lieu le 4 juin 2008 à l'Université de l'Europe du Sud-Est à Tetovo. Cette table ronde était organisée dans le cadre du projet...

LDA Georgia will participate and contribute to a new project, "Active Georgia. Women's Academy" funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. The Polish Foreign Affairs ministry defined they key areas of support to Georgia, which includes:Agricultural sector and development of rural areas;Growth of local self-governmentStrengthening of...

In the scope of the « youth the right direction » project sponsored by the European Commission, ALDA and the LDA Georgia will organise a peer to peer educators training from the the 24th to the 28th of june 2008 in Kutaisi (Georgia). During 4 days, 20 people from Kutaisi (Georgia), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Nis (Serbia), Monfalcone (Italy), Osijek and Verteneglio...

The closing conference of the project "Civil society for Equal Opportunities in Europe" has been organised on Tuesday in Bari, Italy. This final conference of the project, supported by the Europe for Citizens Program 2007-2013, was organised by the italian association Identity and Dialogue in partnership with the Slovak association Professional Women and the...

Under the Slovenian Presidency of EU Council, the Second Western Balkans Civil Society Forum was held in Ljubljana 4-5 June. More than 140 participants, members of the European Economic and Social Committee, representatives of civil society organisations from Western Balkan countries were present in the meeting. Inaugural session was chaired by Mr. Dimitris...

L'Alliance française de Tetovo, l'association Glasnikot et l'Université de l'Europe du Sud-Est organisent une table ronde intitulée « Les médias locaux macédoniens face à leurs défis », le 4 juin 2008 de 10h à 13h à l'Université de l'Europe du Sud-Est. La table ronde sera suivie du vernissage de l'exposition « Presse de France...

The project YOUTH: the right direction! has by now been rolling for over one year. The city of Monfalcone, in Italy, is the partner which hosted its kick-off meeting in April 2007 and now it has just started its activity of coordinator for the European Info points that the participating LDAs created in their offices. All the delegates involved have recently received...

During the last day of the Plenary session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA) was at the center of the debate "Democracy and local governance in South-East Europe – the role of ALDA". For this occasion, M. Dario GHISLETTA spoke about the important role that plays the association in strengthening...

It is going towards its end, PEARL.EU project (Platform Enhancing Adriatic Region Links in Europe), promoted by ALDA and municipality of Lecce and by Ravenna one of the 10 Italian local authorities and 11 among local authorities and LDAs from the Balkan area. The seminar intends to focus on the results of the project, the input for the social and economic development...

In Vienna, on the 16th of May 2008, the General Assembly of ALDA elected the new Governing Board and its Bureau.The new Governing Board, appointed for four years, is now composed as follows :Bureau :President, Mr. Per Vinther (DK)Vice President, City of Kargujevac, Mr. Dobrica Milovanovic (Serbia)Vice President, Region Puglia, Mr. Bernardo Notarangelo (IT)Treasurer,...

  With a minute-long, standing ovation, the General Assembly of ALDA on 16 May 2008 in Vienna paid tribute to its popular president of the past nine years, Gianfranco Martini, and named him Honorary President of ALDA in recognition of his tireless engagement in furthering the aims of the Association.Since the opening of the first Local Democracy Agency in Subotica in...

Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture 2008, was the host of the major international conference held from 1st - 3rd of May to mark the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.The delegation from Subotica, composed of Ms. Andrea Losonc, Mayor's office and Stanka Parac, Delegate of the Local Democracy Agency Subotica were among the participants of the event...

The Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA) is organising a Conference and its General Assembly in Vienna, Austria on the 15th and the 16th of may 2008.The Conference about "Citizens' participation today, Why and How" will take place on Thursday 15th May at the Palais Plaffy, Vienna. For more information about the Conference The General Assembly of the...

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