European Citizens’ Initiative: A Tool for Engagement and Active Citizenship

2023
European Citizens’ Initiative: A Tool for Engagement and Active Citizenship

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  • Author: Yilly Vanessa Pacheco
  • Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
  • ISBN: 3863955854
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

This publication gathers contributions to understand better and further develop the European Citizens’ Initiative. This participatory and agenda-setting tool introduced into the Treaty of Lisbon has not yet reached its full potential of citizen engagement, nor has it driven the significant policy changes initially expected. Bearing this in mind, the project ECI: From A to Z aimed to promote the knowledge and use of the European Citizens’ Initiative within the higher education arena by engaging investigators and students from four different Universities (University of Coimbra; Georg-August University of Göttingen; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi and the University of Vigo) to work together to share their concerns and common views on the European Union role and policies. This publication describes the methodology followed and results reached under the project, but more than that, it is a practical toolkit for all who wish to know more about the European Citizens’ Initiative and how to put it in motion.

European Citizens' Initiative: a Tool for Engagement and Active Citizenship

2023
European Citizens' Initiative: a Tool for Engagement and Active Citizenship

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  • Author: Yilly Vanessa Pacheco
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This publication gathers contributions to understand better and further develop the European Citizens' Initiative. This participatory and agenda-setting tool introduced into the Treaty of Lisbon has not yet reached its full potential of citizen engagement, nor has it driven the significant policy changes initially expected. Bearing this in mind, the project ECI: From A to Z aimed to promote the knowledge and use of the European Citizens' Initiative within the higher education arena by engaging investigators and students from four different Universities (University of Coimbra; Georg-August University of Göttingen; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi and the University of Vigo) to work together to share their concerns and common views on the European Union role and policies. This publication describes the methodology followed and results reached under the project, but more than that, it is a practical toolkit for all who wish to know more about the European Citizens' Initiative and how to put it in motion.

Active Citizenship

2012
Active Citizenship

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  • Author: European Economic and Social Committee
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Citizenship
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76

Foreward -- Get up and get active! -- EESC members talk about their active citizenship initiatives -- Giving back to society -- New rights are worth defending -- A healthy economy -- A mirror to society-- European integration at stake -- A manager, a soldier, a professor -- A knighted volunteer -- An impact on society -- Midwife to the rebirth of active civil society -- The personal and the public are the same -- Just do it! -- Europe needs militant citizens -- In search of broader horizons -- In the public interest -- Giving something back to your own community -- A spanish farmer in Brussels -- Make a wish come true -- Building alliances in pursuit of social justice -- The European Citizens' Initiative : an opportunity to be seized -- Learning to move mountains -- a million voices -- A passion for progress -- A woman's work -- Simply scoouting -- Nothing about us without us -- Giving people a voice -- A commitment to make life better.

Framing Civic Engagement, Political Participation and Active Citizenship in Europe

2017-12-22
Framing Civic Engagement, Political Participation and Active Citizenship in Europe

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  • Author: Cristiano Bee
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317573161
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 128

This book evaluates the role that civic engagement, political participation and active citizenship can play in promoting the establishment of a European polity. The chapters included here examine how the practice of active citizenship is managed and constructed in the context of a European drive to increase civic engagement and political participation in three member states (Portugal, Italy and the UK) and one accession country (Turkey). Looking at both processes and policies promoting active citizenship at the European and national levels, this book uncovers current discourses as well as political priorities and values that surround the activities of non- governmental organizations (NGOs). Of particular interest are debates about the nature and level of civic and political participation and engagement of marginal groups (women, youths, migrants and minorities) as they are particularly vulnerable to social exclusion. The book focuses on the interaction between institutions and civil society actors, addressing a number of questions related to their reciprocal role in influencing, shaping, criticising or disregarding certain political priorities. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

Youth Citizenship and the European Union

2020-06-29
Youth Citizenship and the European Union

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  • Author: Elvira Cicognani
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100000791X
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 96

This book applies a number of different disciplinary and geographical perspectives to ascertain whether and how European youth identify with the EU, trust EU institutions and engage in EU issues. It investigates the factors and processes that predict the different ways in which young Europeans engage (or do not engage) with social and political issues and become active European citizens. The volume is based on results from the first two years of the Horizon 2020 CATCH-EyoU project (“Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions”). It addresses different dimensions of active citizenship in the EU and different processes and contexts that explain the construction of youth active citizenship, including societal-level factors such as policy context and media; interaction-level contexts such as school and family; and individual-level factors. The final chapter emphasizes the impact of the current historical context on the development of young Europeans’ civic identity and their understanding of the social and political reality. With contributions from a variety of disciplines including psychology, political science, communications and education, and spanning geographic contexts across Europe, this book will be of interest to researchers studying contemporary European youth and the construction of young people’s identity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Chapters 1 and 5 are available Open Access at https://www.routledge.com/products/9780367236557.

Guide to the European Citizens' Initiative

2014
Guide to the European Citizens' Initiative

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  • Author: DG for Communication
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789279323003
  • Category : Legislation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 28

Guide to the European Citizens' Initiative

2011
Guide to the European Citizens' Initiative

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  • Author: European Commission
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Citizenship
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

The European citizens' initiative enables one million EU citizens from at least seven EU countries to call on the European Commission to propose legislation on matters where the EU has competence to legislate. It is a right that is enshrined in the EU treaties. The rules and procedures governing the citizens' initiative are set out in an EU regulation adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union in February 2011.

The European Citizens' Initiative

2010
The European Citizens' Initiative

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  • Author: Johannes W. Pichler
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789400000629
  • Category : Democracy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

With the European Citizens' Initiative (Article 11.4. in the new Lisbon Treaty of the European Union), the region enters new territory for modern democracy. For the first time, the principle of representative democracy, based on both indirect and direct democracy, will become a political practice on the transnational level. However, such a historic step, which is closely watched by observers from across the globe, raises many questions regarding the future provisions (implementation and regulation), the opportunities (the attitude by EU institutions and citizens groups alike), and the infrastructure (the support and assistance arrangements). This book offers an entry point into the new and exciting democratic territory of the European Citizens' Initiative, and it outlines the cornerstones and key features of both the procedure to be adapted by the EU in 2010 and the future use of the new tool from 2011.

Youth Active Citizenship in Europe

2020-04-25
Youth Active Citizenship in Europe

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  • Author: Shakuntala Banaji
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030357945
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

This volume engages with the contested concept of ‘active citizenship’. It analyses the use and understanding of active citizenship in youth civic and political initiatives in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK. Using ethnographic data and insights from the cross-European project CATCH-EyoU, the contributors to this collection illuminate the experiences of young people taking action for social change. It does so at a unique moment when a resurgent populist political right is deploying racial prejudice and neoliberal protectionism in both established media and new digital media to fuel xenophobic nationalism. The book asks a range of questions, including: What is life like for active young citizens with an interest in the civic and political spheres? What practices, relationships and motivations characterise their participatory movements, organisations, initiatives and groups? The chapters use case studies to analyse how friendship and emotion, social media, diversity-work, racism, precarity and burnout feed into motivating and developing or curtailing sustained pro-democratic activism. Youth Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including politics, sociology, education and cultural studies.

Bridging the Gap?

2016
Bridging the Gap?

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  • Author: Maximilian Conrad
  • Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
  • ISBN: 9783848724543
  • Category : Direct democracy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Three years after the introduction of the European Citizens' Initiative, the present volume offers a critical, but nonetheless cautiously optimistic perspective on the opportunities and constraints of this novel tool of transnational participatory democracy. Bringing together a wide range of ECI researchers, the volume combines theoretical discussions on the nature and contribution of the ECI with empirical perspectives on the experiences of the first initiatives launched since April 2012. The contributions show that the ECI is difficult to place as an instrument of participatory democracy, owing to considerable ambiguity as regards its merely indirect agenda-setting function. More importantly, the ECI has so far only in part been able to fulfill the high expectations held by academics, activists and ECI organizers alike. The conclusions of the volume are, therefore, somewhat ambivalent: while the ECI clearly has significant democratizing potential, the experience of the first three years also points to a considerable need for reform.