Active Citizens: Uniting Voices, Inspiring Change

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The conference Active Citizens: Uniting Voices, Inspiring Change aims to celebrate and disseminate the results and impact of the Active Citizens Programme in the 2018-2024 period.

Throughout the day, a wide range of speakers will discuss the NGO sector in Portugal and the relevance of the Active Citizens Program over the years.

Two studies promoted by the Program will be presented – an external evaluation study and another on the evolution of the NGO sector in Portugal, carried out by the Portuguese Catholic University – and good practices and impact stories will also be shared, told in the first person.

Now closed for registration.

 

ALLright(s) – Direitos para tod@s

Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra

The project has focused its activities on 13 municipalities in the district of Coimbra, aiming to raise awareness, educate and empower at least 1,400 children and young people and 80 professionals to know, understand and act in the areas of human rights, gender equality, diversity and interculturality.

 

Aquacultura de Sereias Lda.

Associação Academia Cidadã

The "Mermaid Aquaculture Inc." project worked with young people between the ages of 15 and 20 in Lisbon, using awareness-raising campaigns – including street theatre about the production of mermaids in aquaculture – and media literacy activities to involve not only young people, but also their families and the community at large.

 

ANP – Associação Natureza Portugal

Through two projects, ANP aimed to create a national network of young people interested in and willing to help implement new solutions to protect the environment and raise awareness in society at large. Through the development of digital fundraising and the implementation of fundraising and communication campaigns, ANP also sought to improve the sustainability of the organization itself.

 

CIVITAS

Beira Serra – Associação Promotora do Desenvolvimento

With the aim of strengthening democratic literacy and citizen participation in politics, the project focused on creating a board game about the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. The creation of the game and its activities involved the entire educational community of the Cova da Beira region (Belmonte, Covilhã and Fundão).

 

JáCáTá

Associação Portuguesa Rádio Miúdos

The project aimed to strengthen Rádio Miúdos' sustainability and impact by creating a social business, training employees in business skills, and increasing Rádio Miúdos' visibility and awareness.

 

MEERU Aproxima

Associação Para o Desenvolvimento Meeru

The aim of the project was to tackle social isolation and facilitate the integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers into the communities in which they live. Targeting 6 migrant and refugee families in the Porto area, outreach teams of local volunteers were formed to implement a structured volunteering program. From organizing meetings between families and the community, to raising awareness of diversity and interculturalism among local youth, much has been done.

 

Memórias do Bairro

Hope! Respostas Sociais

The project aimed to empower older people and those with dementia to make decisions, train professionals and volunteers in Esposende to support them, and raise awareness of dementia, human rights and community needs.

 

Programa de Trainees Reshape

APAC Portugal – Associação de Proteção a Apoio ao Condenado

The "Reshape Trainee Program" project was aimed at inmates of Caxias Prison who had served between 9 and 18 months of their sentence. The project was designed to strengthen the social and professional skills of the beneficiaries and to provide technical training in ceramics production. The final objective of the project was the recruitment of these individuals by three businesses.

 

(Re)Veste

Centro Social de Soutelo 

In the municipalities of Matosinhos and Gondomar, the (Re)Veste project promoted the social inclusion and employability of young people with disabilities or special educational needs (aged between 15 and 35) through weekly workshops to develop social and personal skills, digital literacy workshops, and clothing customization workshops. The aim of the latter workshop was to create a social cooperative to transform clothes and then sell the pieces made by the beneficiaries through an online store.


Speakers


Programme

08:30 / Welcoming & registration

09:30 / Opening remarks

António Feijó, President, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Patrícia Nascimento, President, Bissaya Barreto FoundationHanne Brusletto, Norwegian Ambassador to Portugal
Host:
Fernanda Freitas

10:00 / EEA Grants support: assessment and future perspectives

Maria Mineiro, Head, National Focal Point, EEA GrantsPedro Calado, Director, Active Citizens Programme Martin Essayan, Trustee, Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationLúcia Santos, Trustee, Bissaya Barreto Foundation
Moderator:
Fernanda Freitas— 11:00 / Coffee break 30 min., networking and project demonstrations —

11:30 / Active Citizens Programme external evaluation

António Figueiredo, Quaternaire PortugalFilipa Barreira, Quaternaire Portugal
Moderator:
Fernanda Freitas

12:15 / Sharing good practices: Inspiring change (breakout sessions)

Giving Voice to Human Rights

Reverbo Theatre GroupAlice Frade, Human Rights Platform
Moderators:
Sandra Ferreira and Saliu Djau, CGF

Citizenship as a Game and in Law

Marco Gabriel, Marisa Marques e Ana Braga, Beira Serra – Development Association Margarida Cruz e Filipa Silveira e Castro, Acreditar – Association of Parents and Friends of Children with Cancer
Moderators:
Rosário Palha and Luís Proença, CGF

Stronger and more empowered NGOs

Ana Patrícia Fonseca, Fundação Fé e Cooperação (FEC)Sónia Fernandes and Bárbara Araújo, Pista Mágica
Moderators:
João Saavedra e Inês Rapazote, CGF

Sustainability strategies for working with vulnerable groups

Marco Ribeiro Henriques, Association for the Protection and Assistance of the Convicted (APAC)André Costa Jorge, Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)
Moderators:
Hugo Seabra and Maria de Assis, CGF— 13:00 / Lunch 90 min., networking and project showcase —

14:30 / NGOs in Portugal and Europe – How has the sector evolved in the past 10 years?

Raquel Campos Franco, Portuguese Catholic UniversityAmérico Mendes, Portuguese Catholic UniversityMartin Essayan, Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationKristīne Zonberga, Civic Alliance – LatviaAnca Nicovescu, Civil Society Development Foundation – Romania
Q&A moderated by:
José Eleutério and Sofia Nunes, Active Citizens Programme

15:30 / Impact Narratives: Uniting Voices

August Knoke, Member of the Programme advisory groupTiago Rodrigues, Member of the Programme advisory groupSusana Padilha, Member of the Programme advisory groupMargarida Gaspar de Matos, University of Lisbon/Portuguese Catholic UniversityInês Rueff, More than Stories
Moderator:
Fernanda Freitas

16:15 / What does it really mean to be an Active Citizen?

Liliana Valpaços, Mundu NôbuDino d’Santiago, Mundu Nôbu

16:45 / Cocktail, networking and project showcase

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation reserves the right to collect and keep records of images, sounds and voice for the diffusion and preservation of the memory of its cultural and artistic activity. For further information, please contact us through the Information Request form.

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