ARCHIMED EGCT – Ε.Ο.Ε.Σ. – AECT – GECT – European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation

We can look at this model of this diffusion process as something like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons (one of several types of hadrons) with very high kinetic energy, buildt by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), with a cooperation process which involves over eight thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.  More social and less scientist, the aim is quite the same.

The idea is to set up a more strong communication between European partners at local level, building a two-ways communication about common culturale values, with a going-local approach, and cross-border mobility exchanges, which means to set up an EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPEN SPHERE.

This will be public because local government ought to allow people to have connectivity and public space where assist to exhibitions, films, politics, education, academy, with the involvement of schools, universities, organizations of the civil society and non-governmental organisation, improving information and freedom of expression, empowering citizens through education and connectivity, involving media and technology and the European public opinion, making inter-institutional agreements among the national, regionals and really local territories.

We desire to make culture something for everybody, something to share, building a plural idea of identity, with sociological and anthropological relation with theater, music, plastic and perfoming arts, to realize unity in diversity according to the real European Spirit of reciprocal understanding and discovery.

THE CONNECTIVE EUROPE project shows a way to cooperate between citizens and local governance (in an European framework), cuilding a network which desire to study and reasearch common roots in Europe values and cultures thorogh agreements and reciprocal hospitality, creating events, meetings and exhibition in culture and arts, transforming (with cooperation of Universities, Schools, Local Governments, Studies Centers, etc) travels into experience, retrieving the initiatic meaning the travel had during the romantic age of XIX century, and transposing in something no more reserved to some restrict élites, but an experience for everyone who desire to know, to share, to get experience.

References:

Communicating Europe in Partnership, COM(2007) 568 final;

Permanent dialogue between EU and citizens, SI(2007) 500;

Action Plan SEC(2005) 985;

Plan D COM(2005) 494;

White paper on a European Communication COM(2006) 35;

Europe Direct Relays Networks;

Eurocult21 stories;

Sicily-Malta strategic plan.