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	<title>Radu Oprea</title>
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	<description>&#34;SMART Method of Public Policy&#34; and milestones.</description>
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		<title>Pepperdine University at RIUF 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pepperdine University will attend the Romanian International University Fair (RIUF) 2010 in Bucharest, during March 13-14. RIUF is the largest and most reputable international education event in Romania and in Eastern Europe counting over 15,000 visitors interested in study abroad programs and almost 200 individual exhibitors over the 5 editions so far.
I will be promoting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first two real problems of European public concern on www.public-policies.eu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first two real problems of European public concern have been published on www.public-policies.eu. Now, everybody can give solutions and ideas to the issues of Mass adoption of e-invoicing within the European Union and the EU strategy for the Danube Region.
As the European citizen engagement platform is developing and coming to its final version, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PhD research regarding entrepreneurship in the South-East region of Romania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent research activity conducted over 117 medium-sized enterprises from the South – East region of Romania has revealed the following:

The      majority of the employees of the companies that were interviewed do not participate      in training courses related to project management and personal   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/547?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=phd-research-regarding-entrepreneurship-in-the-south-east-region-of-romania</link>
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		<title>The European Voluntary Service, a great opportunity for participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I attended a training course about the opportunities offered by the European Voluntary Service (EVS). The European Commission allows organizations to host volunteers from other countries in a learning program of up to one year. The themes are numerous and community development is one of them.
The EVS offers great perspectives for SMART Development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once a problem&#8217;s page is generated, any person interested in the problem in question can offer a solution, filling in the &#8220;solution form&#8221; at the bottom of the page. The scoop is for the problem to receive as many solutions as possible. These are filtered according to the three criteria (valuable, feasible and sustainable) by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/516?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=test-the-citizen-engagement-platform-at-www-public-policies-eu-step-3</link>
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		<title>Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once the &#8220;Problem identification form&#8221; is submitted and an administrator aproves it, a script generates the &#8220;Problem&#8217;s page&#8221; as seen in the picture below.  At the top, there is the name of the category of the problem, the title of the problem and a “share” widget that allows for easier dissemination over the Internet. The body of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/486?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=test-the-citizen-engagement-platform-at-www-public-policies-eu-step-2</link>
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		<title>Test the citizen engagement platform at www.public-policies.eu: STEP 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The online citizen engagement platform available at www.public-policies.eu allows you to publish a problem of European public concern and offer your solutions to the problems already published. We are currently testing the work that the programmers have done so far and invite you to check it out. We are interested in the overall feeling of the participation experience. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/473?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=test-the-citizen-engagement-platform-at-www-public-policies-eu-step-1</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Democracy is fulfilling dreams&#8221; officially accepted for competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two-minute clip &#8220;Democracy is fulfilling dreams&#8221; has been officially accepted for competition in the Democracy Video Challenge 2010 and is up for Round 1.  It is also now live on the contest page, at http://www.youtube.com/democracychallenge. Here is what follows next (Source: the rules of the contest):
Round 1: Contest Sponsors will evaluate Video Submissions at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/461?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=democracy-is-fulfilling-dreams-officially-accepted-for-competition</link>
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		<title>My video for the Democracy Video Challenge 2010: Democracy is fulfilling dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The challenge is to create a short video that completes the phrase &#8220;Democracy is &#8230;&#8221; Winners will be selected from every continent to meet in the United States. It took me all day to interview 16 people about their dreams, create the clip and register it in the contest. It was fun, though pretty tiresome. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/457?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=my-video-for-the-democracy-video-challenge-2010-democracy-is-fulfilling-dreams</link>
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		<title>Invitation to test the participation platform on www.Public-Policies.eu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is indeed an invitation to anybody interested in the field of “participative democracy.” I am developing the citizen engagement platform “public policies made by citizens” together with partners from Romania, Italy, France and Greece. We managed to win a grant from the European Commission&#8217;s Youth in Action Programme. My first important deadline for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raduoprea.eu/en/archives/449?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=invitation-to-test-the-participation-platform-on-www-public-policies-eu</link>
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