Irish Regions Office Website

December 08, 2008

Kerry VEC 'EU Villages'

Kerry Education Service (KES), the VEC in that county, has been lauded for its involvement in a transnational pilot project with the shared objective of creating ''meeting points for ordinary people across Europe''. The recognition for the EU Villages project with a 2008 European Regional Communication Champions Award reflects active efforts to engage the public and increase knowledge, understanding, cooperation and solidarity between EU citizens.
The initiative, funded under the Europe for Citizens programme, was part of KES's Community Education Programme. The Kerry element operated from the Adult Education Centre in Causeway and created local mechanisms to allow groups of residents to participate in exchanges with counterparts in Sweden, Cyprus and Romania to collectively explore agreed themes relating to community development matters and the potential/relevance of different EU themes and structures. Topics included participation and democracy; national and European identities; intercultural dialogue; sustaining community buildings; and the impact of Regional Policies on society. One of the outcomes is a mooted project based on Youth and Mental Health to involve secondary schools within the partner regions.

Kerry VEC ‘EU Villages’
Kerry Education Service (KES), the VEC in that county, has been lauded for its involvement in a transnational pilot project with the shared objective of creating “meeting points for ordinary people across Europe”. The recognition for the EU Villages project with a 2008 European Regional Communication Champions Award reflects active efforts to engage the public and increase knowledge, understanding, cooperation and solidarity between EU citizens.
The initiative, funded under the Europe for Citizens programme, was part of KES’s Community Education Programme. The Kerry element operated from the Adult Education Centre in Causeway and created local mechanisms to allow groups of residents to participate in exchanges with counterparts in Sweden, Cyprus and Romania to collectively explore agreed themes relating to community development matters and the potential/relevance of different EU themes and structures. Topics included participation and democracy; national and European identities; intercultural dialogue; sustaining community buildings; and the impact of Regional Policies on society. One of the outcomes is a mooted project based on Youth and Mental Health to involve secondary schools within the partner regions.

http://www.cokerryed.ie/news_folder/articles/eu_villages_project_wins_european_award.pdf

Posted by iroronan at December 8, 2008 03:19 PM