Press Release from SIRIUS Project To mark World Refugee Day on June 20, 2020, a new application called WORKEEN launches to help migrants, asylum seekers and refugees gain access to the job market. WORKEEN is a serious game application, created by a team of political scientists, sociologists, economists and software engineers based in seven European countries…
On 12 June 2020, SOLIDAR Foundation has provided its views on the European Commission public consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – A European Approach. The White Paper represents the initial strategy of the new European Commission on the future of AI in Europe. It presents a vision solely informed by an…
Our Silver Rose Award winners 2020, the Creative Communities Group from the United Kingdom, tell us about their endeavours in a candid reportage. Nominated by Professor Romesh Gupta OBE, the group has been awarded in the category “Building Learning Societies”, for its outstanding efforts in advancing education and lifelong learning. The impossibility to hold the Silver Rose ceremony due to the coronavirus crisis, and deliver a merited award to CCG, does not mean their work is on hold….
9 May Statement: “No Europe Day, without a Green and Social Europe” May 9th, Europe Day’s celebration, comes in difficult times for Europe and the European project. The need for building a real Social Europe and finding a way out of the crisis, that puts the continent on a sustainable path, has never been greater. Boosting…
International Workers´ Day – Central America’s maquilas workers: falling off the boat in the coronavirus storm? With almost 25 million jobs predicted to be lost as a consequence of the COVID-19, it is clear that the pandemic is not a health crisis only, it is an economic and social crisis. Among the sectors whose workers are being strongly…
Left behind?: Maquila workers in Central America and the COVID19 crisis About 400.000 people working in the maquilas (factories in the free trade zone) in Central America, are at risk to be left behind due to the coronavirus crisis. The group includes mostly women, many of them poor, with low level of education, single mothers, head of…
Impact of COVID-19 in Central America: Economic and Social Rights cannot be kept on hold! SOLIDAR members in Central America joined together to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on the region, looking particularly to economic and social rights – enabling environment, decent work and access to health. This analysis also includes recommendations to the European Union to…
OPEN LETTER: the EU must not sit idly by while a Member State’s democracy is in jeopardy SOLIDAR and SOLIDAR Foundation, along with 80 MEPs and civil society organisations ( amongst them Transparency International EU, European Humanist Federation, Access Info Europe, The Good Lobby, Corporate Europe Observatory , ILGA-Europe , WeMove Europe, Alliance4Europe), has signed an open letter to the European Commission and the European Council,…
Deadline extended for Small Grant Facility Call for Proposals – submit by 27 April! ENG Due to the current situation of COVID-19, SOLIDAR Organising International SOLIDARity Steering Group has decided to postpone the deadline for its Small Grant Facility Call for Proposals. The new deadline to submit proposals is 27 April 2020, 24.00h Brussels time. This will allow to mitigate the obstacles that CSOs,…
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