Korčula School 2021: Building partnerships for Just Transition & Gender Equality
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Korčula School 2021: Building partnerships for Just Transition & Gender Equality

September 1, 2021 “To counter the climate and environmental emergency, structural changes to our economies and to the ways we live, produce, consume, travel and work are necessary and urgent. Such restructuring should address the current social inequalities and economic disbalances for a more just, socially responsible and sustainable world of the twenty-first century. What we have…

TRANSVAL – EU: Survey on innovative initiatives for the validation of transversal skills
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TRANSVAL – EU: Survey on innovative initiatives for the validation of transversal skills

TRANSVAL – EU: Survey on innovative initiatives for the validation of transversal skills The EU-funded project TRANSVAL-EU, in which SOLIDAR Foundation is a partner, is a European policy experimentation concerning innovative approaches for the validation of transversal skills obtained in non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) contexts, including guidance services.  “Transversal skills and competences (TSCs) are learned and…

ELF Study Visit: the State of the Civic Space in Europe: What’s at Stake?
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ELF Study Visit: the State of the Civic Space in Europe: What’s at Stake?

ELF Study Visit: the State of the Civic Space in Europe: What’s at Stake? The second annual Study Visit of SOLIDAR Foundation took place online from 12 to 14 July. This year, the Study Visit provided members and partners with an overview of the state of play of the civic space in Europe, thanks to the interventions of external experts as well…

SMILE Project website is now launched!
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SMILE Project website is now launched!

SMILE is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme under KA3 – Social inclusion and common values, aiming to promote inclusive education by developing, testing and implementing innovative tools that improve the way higher education institutions deal with diversity and social inclusion. The project focuses on three main areas of inequality and disadvantage in higher…

The Solidarity Labs have been kickstarted in Greece
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The Solidarity Labs have been kickstarted in Greece

The Solidarity Labs have been kickstarted in Greece Greek citizens have started their preparation to actively follow and participate in the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) process, which forsees a citizen-led series of debates and discussions which are to feed into a pan-European democratic exercise that would allow citizens to have their say on EU decision-making. In the framework of the EU funded project, valUE – Solidarity…

Just Transition for a Sustainable Future
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Just Transition for a Sustainable Future

Between the 15th and 16th of June, the 14th edition of the European Development Days (EDDs) will take place. The theme of this year’s edition is “The Green Deal for a Sustainable Future”.  Ahead of the EDDs, SOLIDAR members met within the Just Transition Academy to discuss about the measures to adopt to ensure that the implementation of the Green Deal is socially just, inclusive, fair and promotes gender equality. According to SOLIDAR, for this to happen, there is…

Promoting a Just Transition in Europe and Worldwide: How Civil Society and Trade Unions are Driving the Change
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Promoting a Just Transition in Europe and Worldwide: How Civil Society and Trade Unions are Driving the Change

June 12, 2021 The study “Promoting a Just Transition in Europe and Worldwide: How Civil Society and Trade Unions are Driving the Change” stems from SOLIDAR’s growing interest in engaging with the topic of ensuring a socially Just Transition to climate neutrality. At the end of 2020, the SOLIDAR network developed a new multiannual strategy for the platform,…