16. 11. 2018 | PR, U-LEAD: with Europe
U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme continues with Slovenia hosting the second international study visit on social and economic development of communities with diverse ethnic population next week. The visit will take place in Ljubljana and Prekmurje between 18 and 23 November 2018 with 20 public officials from Ukraine.
Participants will begin their visit with an introduction day at Jable Castle, meeting a number of Slovenian administrative and governing bodies, among them Local Self-Government Service at the Ministry of Public Administration and Office for National Minorities of the Republic of Slovenia. In the following days, the workshops will take you to the field, visiting Murska Sobota, Lendava, Roma settlement Pušča, Gornji Senik, Puconci and smaller towns and villages in Prekmurje region.
The five day workshop follows the fist study visit in September, when participants researched the municipalities of Izola, Koper, Domžale, Trst and Dolina in the west of Slovenia. Centre for European Perspective as the organizer of the study visit will present the autochthonous Slovenian national minority living in Slovenia’s four neighboring countries and autochthonous Italian and Hungarian national communities in Slovenia, as well as the Roma community. Since national minorities play an important role in all-round cross-border cooperation – important to Slovenia as a whole and its border areas, which constitute a major portion of Slovenia’s territory, it can serve as an example of good practice useful also for Ukraine and its development and decentralization progress.
The visit is taking place in the framework of the multi-donor action U-LEAD established by the European Union and its Member States Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden. It is aimed to contribute to the establishment of multilevel governance that is transparent, accountable and responsive to the needs of the population of Ukraine. U-LEAD with Europe is supporting the Ukrainian Government, represented by the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine (MinRegion) as a key political partner, in the coordination and implementation of the decentralisation and regional policy reforms. The Programme carries out demand-driven and targeted trainings for officials at the national, regional and local level.
15. 9. 2018 | Decentralisation, local self-government, National communities, PR, Public administration, Slovenian Development Assistance, U-LEAD: with Europe
Together with U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme, CEP hosted an international study visit on social and economic development of communities with diverse ethnic population between the 10th and 14th of September. During the five day event, participants from Ukraine visited Slovene municipalities of Izola, Koper and Domžale, as well as Italian municipalities of Trst and Dolina.
On the first day of the study visit, seventeen representatives of local and regional authorities from Zakarpattya, Odesa and Chernivtsi oblast learned about the Slovene system of local self-government, regional development in Slovenia and got acquainted with Italian and Hungarian national communities and the Roma community in Slovenia.
Between the 11th and 12th of September, they visited bilingual municipalities of Koper and Izola, where they met with representatives of the Italian minority in Slovenia, Regional development centre Koper, as well as municipalities of Izola and Koper. They were interested in concrete examples of local development projects and also visited Škocjanski zatok, a great example of a revitalisation of a degraded industrial area into a natural reserve. On the 13th of September they travelled to Italy. Firstly, they met with the director of the Slovene Regional Economic Association in Trst and travelled to the business zone in the municipality of Dolina later that day. The last day of the study visit was spent in the municipality of Domžale, where the participants met with the mayor and learned about their examples of local development projects, such as their new bike park and recreational area by the Kamniška Bistrica river.
Ukrainian representatives gained valuable knowledge on the preparation and implementation of local and regional development projects and acquainted themselves with several good practices, which they will strive to apply in their local communities. They were also genuinely interested in establishing peer-to-peer cooperation with Slovene municipalities and organisations.
A similar international study visit will be organised at the end of this year.
The activities were financed by U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme, a multi-donor action of the European Union and its Member States Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
10. 9. 2018 | Decentralisation, local self-government, National communities, PR, U-LEAD: with Europe
CEP – Centre for European Perspective is currently hosting 17 representatives of different Ukrainian local and regional authorities. During the five day visit, the participants will get the chance to learn about local economic development, local self-government, Slovenia’s national communities and the co-existence in communities with diverse ethnic population.
17 participants from Zakarpattya, Odesa and Chernivtsi oblast have arrived on the 10th of September. During the first day of the event, they gained knowledge about the Slovenian system of local self-government, regional development and national minorities in Slovenia. The participants showed great interest in cooperation between municipalities, in Slovenia’s minorities, multi-ethnic municipalities and the bilingual school system in certain areas.
In the following days, the participants will visit the bilingual municipalities of Koper and Izola, as well as the municipality of Domžale. They will have a chance to hear first-hand experience from representatives of the Italian minority in Slovenia and representatives of the Slovenian minority in Italy. Furthermore, they will learn more about the local development projects of the regional development agency in Koper.
The activities are financed by U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme, a multi-donor action of the European Union and its Member States Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
