Archive for September, 2009
Aspen’s Young Leaders Program, three days of policy ideas
Three more days into Aspen’s Young Leaders Program have passed with intense and hot debates over issues like energy efficiency, EU funds and bureaucracy, education for the EU labor market, economic and social effects of political instability in Moldova, immigration, social rejection, gender issues, health care, leadership in politics, a fair justice system, freedom of [...]
September 25, 2009
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Tags: aspen romania, policy ideas, radu oprea · Posted in: 3 Training Courses and Seminars
Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program, Module 3, Day 1
I am attending the Young Leaders Program from Aspen Institute Romania these days. It is the third module out of four that I had the privilege to contract out, as a result of a highly selection process that consisted in an application file and an interview with an international board. The key objectives of Aspen [...]
September 21, 2009
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Tags: aspen romania, economic crisis · Posted in: 3 Training Courses and Seminars
Third day of the Swedish Conference, the “Opinion Square”
The third day of the Conference was productive in terms of policy ideas. The “Opinion Square” is a wonderful tool to give feedback on all the issues that the 10 working groups discussed. To be short, every working group presented their policy ideas on a board. We all moved around and endorsed or not the [...]
September 21, 2009
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Tags: opinion square, swedish presidency · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
Second day of the Swedish Conference, marathon of policy ideas.
The second day of the Swedish Conference on Future EU Cooperation in the Youth Field started with key messages of important stakeholders on youth policies: The Swedish Minister for Youth Affairs, Ms. Nyamko Sabuni, emphasized the need for a new and improved framework of EU cooperation in the youth field for the period 2009 – [...]
September 15, 2009
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Tags: policy ideas, swedish presidency · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
First day of the Swedish Conference, great hosts, great expectations!
The first day of the Conference on Future EU Cooperation in the Youth Field kicked off with great expectations. The hosts have done a great job organizing the events. The workshops from tomorrow look very promising, too. It is hard to see much action and implementation, but dialogue is still the best method to tackle [...]
September 13, 2009
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Tags: swedish presidency, youth conference · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
I am attending the Conference on the Future European Union Cooperation in the Youth Field, Stockholm, Sweden, September 12-14, 2009
Watch live webcasts at www.se2009.eu/youth Sweden has the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). The Council is the highest decision-making body in the EU and consists of one minister from each Member State, who has the authority to make binding decisions for his or her government. Youth representatives, directors-general, officials from all [...]
September 8, 2009
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Tags: future youth cooperation, youth participation · Posted in: 2 Participative Democracy
Two Romanian landmarks in my summer 2009 travels.
This is my first post. The website is not ready yet. Actually, it will never be ready because it will include presentations and accomplishments of the projects that I am engaged in. And I hope I will always have at least one project to take care of!!! There are two exciting places that I visited [...]
September 4, 2009
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Tags: danube delta, pelicans, sinaia, telecabin · Posted in: 4 Travels
