Wellbeing indicators for participatory EU strategy planning for Europe 2020

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The interest in the conceptualization and measurement of wellbeing has recently become a prominent theme across many spheres of European policy. The fact that the European policies should be interested in citizen’s wellbeing it is a subject that demands attention.

Some could argue that nobody knows what makes us better than ourselves. But, not understanding the impacts of wellbeing nor recognizing a full concept of wellbeing and its implications for health, relationships, and education would mean that we, as a society, are not paying attention to what really matters to people.

Goals

To assess change in governance required by the adoption of different economic and social indicators to measure prosperity and well-being in contrast to nearly exclusive pro-growth development policy.
To collect systematic information on how the new social indicators to measure prosperity and well-being reshape the role of different stakeholders in local development planning and implementation.
To develop educational civil society strategies to undertake policy advocacy on the reform of public service delivery regulation for the 2014-2020 development planning period.

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Each partner is organizing two one-day meetings with local stakeholders: citizens, decision makers, representatives of NGO sector, public policy experts. These panels will address how local wellbeing measures could be included in the design of European public policies as well as establish the main indicators of wellbeing that should be part of the policy making process.

News

05 / 09 / 2011
The Public Policy Center (Romania) in partnership with Network of Educational Policy Centers (Croatia) and Wide Open School Foundation (Slovakia) and the support of the European Commission – Europe for Citizens’ Programme and Open Society Foundations in the framework of East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program organized between 2-3 September an international workshop in Oradea read the rest
05 / 08 / 2011
Europeans are starting to be more optimistic about the economy’s outlook with more people saying that the worst of the crisis is behind us, according to the Spring 2011 Eurobarometer, the bi-annual opinion poll organized by the European Union. 43% of Europeans think that the crisis’s impact on the job market has already reached its peak. (see Annex). read the rest
13 / 07 / 2011
Europe 2020: Key documents for Romania read the rest

Partners

CENPO Wide Open School Foundation Network of educational policy centers
The project is financed by the European Commission Educational, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency „Europe for Citizens” Programme, Action 2, Measure 3
EACEA Europe for citizens programme