A dialogue on Democracy, Freedom and Peace in Europe

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The Municipality of Limina (Italy) promotes a Town Twinning titled “A dialogue on democracy, freedom and peace in Europe”. The activities will be held from 5 to 10 December 2022 in Sicily with the participation of different European municipalities coming from IT, HU, PL, SK, BG, and ES. The thematic Focus of the project, with a strong reference to the program guidelines and considering the annual priorities of CERV Program, will focus on the promotion of the European fundamental Values as Peace, Democracy, and tolerance. The actual situation linked to the Ukraine war, An humanitarian disaster, just in the heart of Europe, seems necessary for hear the opinion of citizens concerning the awareness of the most important historical and social dynamics in recent European history: conflicts and peace processes that have marked the social, economic, cultural life of our continent, with the aim to know the long road for arriving to peace in Europe, through the role played by the EU, since its establishment until today, for the promotion democracy and security in the continent. The main goals will be oriented to increase awareness on understanding the values, rights and opportunities created by the EU, making local citizens advocates by making them feel part of it, and feel save under the same flag. The activities plan is created with the suggestion and support of the different tar-get group and will be organized thought public workshops, round table, exchanges of best practices, discussions and debates in order to develop an active citizen-ship and to foster interactions between the citizens’ involved. Through these activities, the citizens and local entities shall raise their knowledge and their awareness of the role of EU policies, therefore they will be able to give a contribution to the implementation of the European challenges. The project involve 110 International participants, 170 direct and 150 indirect, many of them never been involved in this kind of action