Highlights from the 2023 Edition of the Silver Rose Awards Ceremony
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Highlights from the 2023 Edition of the Silver Rose Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to the 2023 Silver Rose Award winners, Justiça Ambiental (JA!) for the Just Transition Award, and Margot Wallström for the Lifetime Achievement Award.  On October 11th, SOLIDAR, in collaboration with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament (S&D), and the European Trade Union…

Civil Society was present and loud at the European Education Area mid-term review event!
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Civil Society was present and loud at the European Education Area mid-term review event!

On October 10th, the European Commission and the European Parliament organised an event to discuss the progress of the European Education Area, the strategy of the EU to create a European Learning Space that is currently undergoing a mid-term review and that aims at helping to make national education and training systems more resilient and inclusive…

SOLIDAR Statement: Palestine/Israel | A stop to the spiral of violence, war crimes and human rights violations!
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SOLIDAR Statement: Palestine/Israel | A stop to the spiral of violence, war crimes and human rights violations!

Last Saturday, 7th October, Hamas went on a full-scale attack on Southern Israel and its civilian population, indiscriminately assaulting, kidnapping, and killing more than a 1300 innocent Israeli men, women, and children in the most brutal way, while letting thousands of rockets rain. The death toll and horrific details of the attack are still coming to…

Partnering with Tunisia, the EU persists in its ill-guided politics to keep people out of its territory – and have a highly repressive country do the dirty job
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Partnering with Tunisia, the EU persists in its ill-guided politics to keep people out of its territory – and have a highly repressive country do the dirty job

The EU must stop signing agreements with third countries demonstrating human rights violations as it tries to stop migrants from arriving to Europe. Background The EU officially announced the past 16th of July the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding for a ‘’comprehensive partnership package’’ with Tunisia.[1] Organised in three main axes (economic and trade…

ECHO Network Study Visit – Online Learning and Digital Technology
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ECHO Network Study Visit – Online Learning and Digital Technology

From 25 to 29 September, ECHO Network’s third study visit took place in Rome. Hosting organisation and ECHO Network project partner, CEMEA Federazione Italiana organised this visit on the topic of online learning and digital technology.    CEMEA Federazione Italiana and its partner organisations Acque Correnti and Movimento di cooperazione educativa (MCE) shared their experience in conducting online training courses. They emphasised the importance of working…

The Silver Rose Just Transition Award goes to… Justiça Ambiental JÁ!
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The Silver Rose Just Transition Award goes to… Justiça Ambiental JÁ!

Silver Rose is the annual Award ceremony co-organised by SOLIDAR, its members and the progressive family, with the S&D Group in the European Parliament, the Party of European Socialists (PES), and this year in collaboration with the Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).  For more than 20 years, the Silver Rose has been…

EU Artificial Intelligence Act: civil society calls for regulating surveillance technology
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EU Artificial Intelligence Act: civil society calls for regulating surveillance technology

Increasingly, in Europe as in the rest of the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are built and deployed for harmful purposes linked to state surveillance. As the negotiations between EU legislators on the EU AI Act are ongoing, civil society organisations including SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation are calling on policy-makers to set strict limits and scrutiny…