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The idea to encourage an informal Inter-Institutional Group able to interconnect the goals of the Agenda 2030 with the consumer protection was announced by Cittadinanzattiva and the European Consumer Union on March 2019 during the event, held at the European Parliament, “Towards EU election: strengthening the European Union to a more effective consumers protection”. Later on, just after the 2019 European elections, Active Citizenship Network (ACN) - the EU branch of the NGO Cittadinanzattiva–and the European umbrella association European Consumers Union (ECU) have invited the civil society coalition Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) to co-promote this political initiative.
The SDGs Multi-Stakeholder Network is the broader civic society-led network of SDGs stakeholders, promoted to endorse the Inter-institutional Group “SDGs for well-being and consumers’ protection”. One of its aims is collecting and sharing best practices, as well as comparing experiences coming from different EU Member States.
The secretariat is co-provided by Active Citizenship Network (ACN) the European branch of the NGO Cittadinanzattiva, the European Consumer Union (ECU) and the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS). To contact us, click here.
The Inter-Institutional Group is opened to members of the EU Institutions that have accepted to work together with the civil society to ensure that Europe will be a global leader in the development and implementation of the SDGs.
Last 29th January 2021, Cittadinanzattiva - trough its EU branch, Active Citizenship Network –participated in the Kick-Off Meeting of the new multi-annual EU-funded project called “FoodSafety4EU” with the role of “Supporting Partner”. The main goal of the project is to start planning integrated actions to put the basis for building together the platform dedicated to the future European Food Safety System.
Last 29th January 2021 took place the General Assembly of the European Consumer Union (ECU), an umbrella consumer organization on whose board Cittadinanzattiva is also involved. In that occasion, Massimo Serpieri - Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission DG Justice & Consumers, Unit E1, Consumer Policy - provided an overview on the New Consumer Agenda. The Assembly welcomed two new members, TALENTED BORDERS from Latvia and ADOC from Italy. With them, the consumer associations members of ECU become 25.
Active Citizenship Network has recently signed an official agreement with the Italian research and technology transfer centre SINERGIE. ACN and SINERGIE have agreed to collaborate and support each other’s initiatives and projects on the topics of common interest such as: sustainability, energy transition, health & consumer issues, digitalization.
The call center managed by Cittadinanzattiva provides - free of charge - the Italian citizen with information, assistance and advice on local public services such as waste management, water service, public transport and municipal nurseries.
Not fully satisfied with the public services of their city, with a level of satisfaction that decreases from North to South of Italy. The most appreciated is the water service, then that of waste collection, at the bottom of the ranking there is the local public transport. But how is Italy classified with respect to the achievement of the sustainable development goals? According to citizens, not really good: about half have little faith in the possibilities of improving and making these sectors sustainable, as indicated by the objectives of the 2030 Agenda. These are among the main data that emerged from the civic survey on local public services and the Sustainable Development carried out by Cittadinanzattiva as part of the “Consciously consumer, equally citizen” project, financed by the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development.
Within the European project NUDGE, Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network aims to collect information on the behavior and awareness of European citizens regarding energy consumption and efficiency. Fundamental to this research is the collaboration of Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network with a number of civic and consumer organizations of different European countries that have shown their interest in the initiative and will collaborate in the dissemination of an online questionnaire in their country.
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