ASAEL LEADS A PROJECT ABOUT YOUTH ePARTICIPATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CLIMATIC CHANGE 22. April 2009 – 09:38 by ASAEL

ASAEL (Aragonese Association of Local Authorities), is developing the “eCLAU” Project in the framework of “Youth in Action” European Programme, which principal aim is to promote youth participation within the utilization of New Technologies in the UE environmental policy, specifically in the fight against climatic change.

The Project is being promoted from ASAEL, involving other partners from different UE countries like Greece, Italy, France and Bulgaria, promoting the exchange of opinions between young people from different countries of the EU, concerning a topical subject of high participation as the fight against the climate change

The eCLAU project tries to reach the next goals: to bring and aware young people to the environmental politics achieved by EU; to bring young people the democratic system closer and foster their participation through the new Technologies; to involve the local and regional authorities into the democratic process and into environmental politics and do the same with youth associations and other social actors and finally as mentioned, to promote the exchange of opinions between young people from different countries of the EU.

Climate change is a challenge which concerns all of us and which does not stop at national borders and thus requires transnational solutions. The European Union has shown that it is ready to assume global leadership in tackling climate change, in facing the challenge of secure, sustainable and competitive energy production and in making the European economy a model for sustainable development in the XXI century. However, its action hardly reaches through to citizens. Indeed, technology, research and politics will be core elements for tackling climate change. But to ensure its success for young people, civil society organizations and local authorities have to be involved to a higher degree in the political process. 

Besides the workshops the Project includes other different dissemination campaigns through the publication of a magazine and an International meeting in Zaragoza, these actions will converge in the creation of an interactive page web, promoting e-participation. eCLAU project follows two senses: on the one hand, it will give information about the results achieved by EU policies in the sustainable development field and on the other hand it will have a feedback through active participation using ICT. It will allow the access to national and international on line forums encouraging citizen participation.

For its achievement we will start next 29th of April with a first conference-workshop named “Youth Participation in Europe: Fighting together against the Climatic Change”. It pretends to bring EU closer to youth and to improve their role within the democratic system of the EU using ICT specifically the participation in the forums. It will be focused in the 3 main areas of the Project: Environment, Youth and eParticipation, and we aim to achieve a rich exchange of debates and opinions that will contribute to the development of it.

Therefore the basic tool of the Project will be the website as will foster youth participation through the on line forums, news, polls, good practice and exchange of experience and results disseminations. (for more information and participation into the forums www.e-clau.net)

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