Live from… the Council of Europe!

The FEDE is participating in the 32^nd Session of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg – France which has for main themes: Migrations, Citizen Participation and Local and Regional Democracy in Europe.

Represented by Mrs. Claude Vivier Le Got, Chairwoman, and Mr. Rinaldo Rosso, Vice-President, the FEDE is an active participant in the debates and brings its expertise on all the themes surrounding the domains of Education, Teaching, and Training.

At the heart of the exchanges during this 32^nd Congress: the role of local authorities facing migration, the reception of unaccompanied child migrants and border regions facing migration flows. The Congress will also examine the state of local and regional democracy in Finland, the state of local democracy in Malta, Estonia and Iceland, as well as a report on the observation of local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (October 2016).

Furthermore, this 32^nd Session will also mark the 10^th anniversary of European Local Democracy Week (ELDW), to which the FEDE is associated.