{"id":2622,"date":"2015-10-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rijekaepk.eu\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T11:35:52","slug":"easy-towns-project-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ri2020.eu\/en\/easy-towns-project-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEasy Towns\u201c Project Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 20 to 21 October, the City of Rijeka took part in the initial conference of the \u201cEasy Towns\u201d project, held in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. The \u201cEasy Towns\u201c project is financed\u00a0 under the EU \u201cEurope for Citizens\u201d programme. The total project value amounts to EUR 145,000, and project partners are: Vicenza (Italy), Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium), L&#8217;Alfas del Pi (Spain), Pforzheim (Germany), Pula (Croatia), \u0160entjur (Slovenia), Gozo (Malta), Niepolomice (Poland), Craigavon (UK \u2013 Northern Ireland) and Rijeka.<\/p>\n<p>The key themes of the \u201cEasy Towns\u201c project are: multiculturalism, interculturalism, and integration in European towns, while the project goal is to sensibilise and include citizens in discussion addressing these issues. The project partners will have an opportunity to share examples of good practice, as well as transfer knowledge and experience relating to the mentioned themes. All project partners, by the end of the project life (year 2017) will have performed actions in their respective cities, which objective is to talk about integration challenges, in a creative manner, in particular in cooperation with the youth population.<\/p>\n<p>Being a multilingual and multicultural city and a participant in the international network that promotes interculture in cities \u2013 \u201cIntercultural cities\u201d, Rijeka presented its experience at the initial conference held from 20 to 21 October in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. On this occasion, the candidature of Rijeka for the European Capital of Culture in 2020 was presented, with a particular emphasis on the topic of \u201cThe Port of Diversity\u201d and migration as one of the backbones of the \u201cRijeka2020\u201d programme.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2613 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rijekaepk.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Citizenship-e1445513465819-300x82.jpg\" alt=\"Citizenship\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" \/>\u201cEurope for Citizens\u201d is a programme that provides financial support to projects promoting \u201cactive European citizenship\u201c. The programme strives to strengthen citizen participation by enabling them to discuss and exchange opinions on the EU, strengthen the European identity, develop a sense of belonging to the EU and promote intercultural dialog among citizens. The Programme is a response to the necessity of more active citizen participation in the\u00a0construction of Europe\u00a0and encourages cooperation between citizens and their organisations in different countries with the aim of meeting, common action and developing their own ideas about the European environment, while respecting their mutual differences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2611\" src=\"https:\/\/rijeka2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Easy-Towns.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Towns\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ri2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Easy-Towns.jpg 650w, https:\/\/ri2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Easy-Towns-248x165.jpg 248w, https:\/\/ri2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Easy-Towns-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ri2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Easy-Towns-420x280.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 20 to 21 October, the City of Rijeka took part in the initial conference of the \u201cEasy Towns\u201d project, held in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. 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The total project value amounts to EUR 145,000, and project partners are: Vicenza (Italy), Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium), L&#8217;Alfas del<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cEasy Towns\u201c Project Partnership &#8226; Rijeka 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ri2020.eu\/en\/easy-towns-project-partnership\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cEasy Towns\u201c Project Partnership &#8226; Rijeka 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From 20 to 21 October, the City of Rijeka took part in the initial conference of the \u201cEasy Towns\u201d project, held in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. 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