Project: MOVES – Mountain Voices for Engaged and Sustainable Democracy
Programme: CERV-2025-CITIZENS-CIV
Project ID: 101253385
Partners:
- Casa D`Abobora – Associacao Juvenil (Portugal);
- Anci Associazione Regionale Comuni Italiani Lazio (Italy);
- People in Focus (Albania);
- House of Europe (Albania)
MOVES – Mountain Voices for Engaged and Sustainable Democracy address the growing democratic disengagement and institutional fragility in remote and peri-urban areas of Italy (Lazio mountainous regions), Albania (peri-urban and mountainous areas around Tirana), and Portugal (northern rural mountainous regions of Cinfães and Aldeia, Viseu District). These territories face common challenges such as depopulation, limited access to services, and the exclusion of youth, women, elderly people, and minorities from civic life.
MOVES aims to bridge these gaps by fostering active citizenship, inclusive participation, and stronger cooperation between citizens and local institutions. The project adopts a transnational and modular structure, ensuring adaptability and cross-border learning. Through participatory forums, civic education modules, co-design workshops, and local action labs, MOVES promotes democratic values and bottom-up governance models tailored to the social and geographic specificities of each area. Activities include transnational exchanges, online and in-person trainings, public consultations, and local action initiatives.
By anchoring change in both grassroots initiatives and governance structures, MOVES is designed not just as a time-bound intervention, but as a catalyst for long-term democratic renewal in Europe’s underserved rural and mountainous regions.
Project duration: 12 months
