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Active Citizenship Network
From Dec. 2001 to 2010
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Active Citizenship Network
ACNs mission is twofold:
1. To contribute to the development of a European Active
Citizenship;
2. To promote the participation of citizens organizations in
European and national public policies.
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Active Citizenship Network
ACN's strategy is to promote the point of view of European citizens
in all public policies areas, focusing on healthcare, consumers and
corporate social responsibility issues.
1. This point of view is always based on civic information, i.e. datacollected and analyzed by citizens organizations themselves.
2. It is embodied in civic instruments such as: the European Charter
of Patients Rights
, the European Charter of Active Citizenship
,
the Guidelines for good CSR partnerships in Europe
, etc.
3. ACN website and newsletter are two essential networking and
advocacy tools.
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Active Citizenship Network
ACN is an open and flexible network, with a strong national base.
1. Flexible. ACN's organization is based on partnership rather than
membership. Some 100 citizens organizations from 30 EU.
2. Open. ACN is open to all civic organizations that defend citizens
rights and/or public goods in Europe and that are willing to
contribute to its strategy.
3. National base not Brussels. ACN is based in Rome and workstogether with Cittadinanzattiva, in accordance with its objective
of building a direct link between national organizations and EU
institutions.
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Active Citizenship Network
Funding: ACN activities and projects are financed by public andprivate funds.
1. Public funds. Most projects carried out by ACN are co-financed
by the European Commission in the framework of calls forproposals.
2. Private funds. ACN projects are also supported by private
foundations and companies through the creation of partnerships.
It is one of the strategic instruments used by ACN to reach itsgoals.
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Active Citizenship Network
19 Projects: 2002 - 2011
Civic participation
Rethinking The Principle Of Subsidiarity
Citizens for the New Europe: Assessing and Reviewing the Criteria of Representativeness of
Civic NGOs
European Charter of Active Citizenship
Monitoring and Evaluating the State of the Rights to European
Active Citizenship EUproact: a website on European active citizenship
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CSR
Citizens as CSR Partners
Lisbon Minus 3: Evaluating CSR partnerships
Consumer Rights A Civic Evaluation of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs)
Civic Analysis of Bank Contracts
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Health:
European Charter of Patients Rights
Monitoring Patients Rights in Europe (15 countries, 21 countries)
European Patients Rights Day ( 2007, 2008,2009,2010,2011)
Impact regarding EU Policy and national policy
Citizens view not only patient, not only one illness
Use of tools developed by the Project
Increasing number of partners and countries
Multi-stakeholders
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Active Citizenship Network
Recognition at the European Level:
DG SANCO: EU Health Policy Forum
DG EAC: Active Citizenship Structural Dialoge Group
Participation as speaker in numerous European, Internationalmeetings and conferences, parliament hearings
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Active Citizenship Network
An Experiment:
Active Citizenship Mentoring in Europe
Draft the proposal together
Defining important aspects of the implementation of the projecttogether
Co-responsibilities regarding different aspects of the project
(toolkit, e-technology, facilitation of partner meeting):
Co-financing
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2010 a difficult year for ACN coordination:
Historic Leadership from Cittadinanzattiva-ACN is gone
(Giovanni, Charlotte, Melody)
New unexperienced staff Difficulties to find co-financing for European projects
Continual will of Cittadinanzattiva to sustain this innovative
Network
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Active Citizenship Network
Challenge:
How to continue to build an innvovative European Network that is
knowledge based: civic information
Does not have permanent membership Not based in Brussels
Not one issue
Take advantage of tools that have already been produced