In ancient Greek city states, the agora was the central area where citizens gathered to discuss politics and have their vote on it. Agora europa (AE) transfers this ideal of an open, democratic dialogue space onto the European level. AE’s target is both to - build up a transnational network of citizens who, deliberately or by chance, get involved into a local debate on European issues and who cast their votes on them, - build up a transnational network of partners who evaluate the outcomes and mould them into political recommendations and demands. AE is a 4-year project, thus moving towards the 9th EU elections. Every AE year will feature 2 up to 4 tours through different countries and shed light on a general theme of European citizenship: ‘Preparing the ground’ (AE2015), ‘Acting together’ (AE2016), ‘Setting priorities’ (AE2017), ‘Embarking for Citizens’ Europe’ (AE2018). This application refers only to AE2015. It will go to Romania (spring tour), Netherlands/Germany (summer tour) and Croatia/Italy (autumn tour). Each local agora partner (LAP) will either host an AE in its city or take part in an AE of another LAP. The physical centrepiece of each AE will be a 25 sqm pagoda tent. Each AE will last 2 or 3 days. The ‘Preparing the ground’ debates are supposed to work out that Europeans, regardless of manifest differences, believe in a common set of values and expect transnational patterns of collaboration to outperform merely national patterns. One mandatory topic is treated by all AE2015: ‘In spite of many differences between us: Do we Europeans want a common future?’ LAP can choose more topics for their local AE from a catalogue WAE and LAP will jointly issue. Designated AE participants: partner teams, invited guests, online viewers, passers-by. Every AE will have 3 elements: Debates, votes, publication of outcomes. The ‘agora europa alliance’ will be the platform where participants, LAP and WAE continue and intensify their debate launched at the local AE.

Agora europe 2015

D'AMBROSI, LUCIA
2014-01-01

Abstract

In ancient Greek city states, the agora was the central area where citizens gathered to discuss politics and have their vote on it. Agora europa (AE) transfers this ideal of an open, democratic dialogue space onto the European level. AE’s target is both to - build up a transnational network of citizens who, deliberately or by chance, get involved into a local debate on European issues and who cast their votes on them, - build up a transnational network of partners who evaluate the outcomes and mould them into political recommendations and demands. AE is a 4-year project, thus moving towards the 9th EU elections. Every AE year will feature 2 up to 4 tours through different countries and shed light on a general theme of European citizenship: ‘Preparing the ground’ (AE2015), ‘Acting together’ (AE2016), ‘Setting priorities’ (AE2017), ‘Embarking for Citizens’ Europe’ (AE2018). This application refers only to AE2015. It will go to Romania (spring tour), Netherlands/Germany (summer tour) and Croatia/Italy (autumn tour). Each local agora partner (LAP) will either host an AE in its city or take part in an AE of another LAP. The physical centrepiece of each AE will be a 25 sqm pagoda tent. Each AE will last 2 or 3 days. The ‘Preparing the ground’ debates are supposed to work out that Europeans, regardless of manifest differences, believe in a common set of values and expect transnational patterns of collaboration to outperform merely national patterns. One mandatory topic is treated by all AE2015: ‘In spite of many differences between us: Do we Europeans want a common future?’ LAP can choose more topics for their local AE from a catalogue WAE and LAP will jointly issue. Designated AE participants: partner teams, invited guests, online viewers, passers-by. Every AE will have 3 elements: Debates, votes, publication of outcomes. The ‘agora europa alliance’ will be the platform where participants, LAP and WAE continue and intensify their debate launched at the local AE.
2014
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