Best practices

The new instrument introduced by the Lisbon Treaty that aspires to further embed democracy in the EU and to increase the citizens’ “sense of belonging”, was presented on the occasion of the one-day conference about the European Citizens’ Initiative and women’s participation. The conference took place in Athens, on 13 May 2011.

Politicians,trade unions, employers and experts participated in a panel discussion on causes and possible solutions of existing demographical problem that Latvia is experiencing.

In 2003 the Institute for Social Integration (ISI) started its pilot project "For professionalism in politics and encouragement of the civil participation".

The main objective of the project is to stimulate the building of a new political culture of the young generation. Since 2003 until now 330 graduates from all municipalities of Bulgaria have attended the Academy.

The project “Political and Intercultural dialogue – From Conflict to Common Interest” supports the development of multicultural democracy in Macedonia and Kosovo. The project promotes political and intercultural dialogue and finding common interests and cooperation between different ethnic groups in the efforts to overcome the challenges to democracy. 

The Magna Carta Summer School was born in 2006 to contribute to the training of a new leadership of young politicians.

Since 2005, the Interfaith Dialogue and multi-religious meetings took place in Norcia to celebrate Benidict of Nursia, the Saint patron of Europe. This yearly event has been an integral and permanent activity of the Magna Carta Foundation.

In Vietnam 1 to 1.3 million people added to urban areas each year to 2020. The current urbanization rate of 27% today is expected to increase to 45% in 2020. Municipalities need to find innovative solutions to cope with this challenge in order to balance interests of different stakeholders in this process and to improve its responsiveness and services vis-à-vis its citizens.

In 2005 the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement signed the “Comprehensive Peace Agreement”. As a result elections will take place on all levels in early April 2010, followed by a referendum on the status of South Sudan in 2011. Therefore national and international training activities are underway for election officials.

The problem of the MLPC, regrettably, is that of the too numerous political parties in Africa: how make live durably the hope this party carries while the next elections risk to be, once again, manipulated and faked?

It is in this context and at the request of the MLPC that the Jean-Jaurès Foundation organizes since December, 2008 training courses to the local persons in charge of the party, to warn them of all the predictable pitfalls on the eve of the presidential and legislative elections of March, 2010.

After the Berlin Wall came down people that used to live behind the Iron Curtain rejected totalitarian communism but did rarely know what kind of society to create. To facilitate the political process towards building a democratic society the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation commissioned a study guide, encouraging debate on freedom and democracy.