European Parliament projects

The Wheel participated in two other European Parliament funded projects.

Bridging the Gap Programme

The Wheel’s “Bridging the Gap” Programme in 2013 – 2014 was an initiative to bring the EU dimension alive in our discourses on where we as a people go from here.

The aim of the project was to encourage and enable greater engagement between citizens and the European Parliament. The participants identified issues regarding how the EU itself functions. The theme of a greater role for the EU found form in various suggestions, including in tackling social disadvantage.

Civil Society & the European Parliament: Shaping Europe's Future

Our next project, “Civil Society & the European Parliament: Shaping Europe’s Future”, built upon the findings of that first initiative. It provided forums that allow community, voluntary, and charity organisations and social enterprises to follow on from their engagement with the European Parliament on the themes that emerged during the previous programme, including:

  • Social Issues
  • Environmental Sustainability issues
  • Civil Society Issues.

Outcomes

Overall outcomes for our sector through these projects were to:

  • understand how these themes can be adequately addressed by the Parliament at a European level,
  • understand the workings of the European Parliament and how to get these themes addressed
  • through the appropriate committees, institutions and representatives at a European level,
  • foster a continuing dialogue between the European Parliament, its MEPs and our sector that will
  • lead to greater trust, transparency, understanding, cooperation and participation into the future.

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