Image via Wikipedia The Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010 takes place in Barcelona from the 4th of March to the 7th of March. The Forum aims to give new momentum to the cooperation among civil society organizations committed to intercultural dialogue in the Union for the Mediterranean region and to enrich the activities of...
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Tags: ALF Forum 2010, Anna Lindh Foundation, Barcelona, Civil society, Intercultural Dialogue, Mediterranean, Organization, Policy, Union for the Mediterranean
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Image by stephen.spillane via Flickr As you are probably aware, I gave a speech at the Alliance Francaise/UCC European Symposium on “European CItizenship”. My speech was on National Identities withing European Identity and Culture. I got great feedback on the speech so I decided to share it with you. Presidents, Excellencies, Mr. Chairman, Ladies...
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Tags: Berlin Wall, Citizenship of the European Union, Culture, East Germany, European, European Identity, Identity, Ireland, Irish Identity, Irish Language, Maastricht Treaty, Nation
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As the Euroblggersphere is suffering an identity crisis at the moment it is a conincidence that Alliance Francaise Cork and UCC are organising a European Symposium on European Citizenship on Tuesday, September 1st in UCC. It looks like it will be an interesting day. The topics covered will be “Women and Europe”, “Justice: rights...
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Tags: Alliance Francaise, Citizenship of the European Union, Cork, European Citizenship, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, Government, Identity, Ireland, Multilateral, President of the European Parliament
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Image by cobalt123 via Flickr In Luxembourg as part of the training with the Anna Lindh Foundation we had to write a list of things that we think identify us. One suggestion was to draw a flower and on each petal write one thing. I of course am useless at drawing so decided to...
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Tags: Anna Lindh, Blog, Culture, facebook, Identity, Irish Language, Luxembourg, MSN, On the Web, Online Communities, Personality
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Carmel has some videos from Luxembourg up on her blog, so I have robbed them in case you missed them! I of course am in them and the second video as me attempting Irish Dancing while under the influence. It really gives you a taste of what we got up to and why it...
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Tags: Anna Lindh Foundation, Dance, European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, Luxembourg, Society and Culture, Training, Video
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I arrived back in Cork today after spending Monday to Wednesday at the Anna Lindh Foundation Blogger Training for Intercultural Dialogue in Luxembourg. It was a fantastic event with 18 bloggers from 17 countries from across the Euromed region, It was an amazing experience. Not only did I learn about places I didnt know...
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Tags: Anna Lindh Foundation, Arabic language, Cork, English language, Ireland, Luxembourg, Middle East
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife On Sunday I head off to Luxembourgh to take part in the ALF Euromed Bloggers Training on Intercultural Dialogue. As part of that Programme I have to look up a bit on interculturalsim. Searching Irishblogs.ie I found a few websites dealing with the issue, but most were websites...
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Tags: Anna Lindh Foundation, Blogging, Interculturalism, Ireland, Irish people, Multiculturalism, Society and Culture
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