The COLISEE - A network in the service of cooperation is West

Origin: Seen again Objective is / 2005

Although the functioning of COLISEE is principally based on voluntary work, very manifold services are returned by the team of animation.

Let us name especially the putting in contact with organisms specialised in cooperation am West, thanks to a file of about 4 addresses. Put in contact with foreign partners. Representation and support of sensitive files to authorities. Deliverance of various information with legal, administrative and practical character. Relay of calls thrown by humanitarian organisations. Various services: announcements of cultural events, offer or job-huntings, research of translators, etc.

EXCEPTIONAL ACTIVITIES

*Colloques or round tables
*Organisation of events intended to favour, as part of decentralised cooperation, meeting of French and foreign partners
*Accueil foreign personalities (organisation of press conferences), etc.

THE NETWORK OF THE COLISEE

Deck of associations and various organisms (cultural centres, notably), COLISEE constitutes manifold group of initiatives and network forming competences.

More than hundred associations are officially members of the committee, but all the groups whom it touches, in a title or in other one, represents active coordinations about 500 organisations or.

THE LETTER OF THE COLISEE

Created in 1994, she has just celebrated her ten years by publishing a number 50 special fall of the Wall . She is currently broadcast in 1000 copies. She offers information with social, cultural, political, economic and associative character, on all the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Every number is dialled of a file, subjects of news, practical information, presentation of associations or of international bodies.

The file (between 6 and 8 pages) allows, is to deepen transverse subjects (for example: poverty in Eastern Europe, questions of environment in Central Europe, prostitution in Peco, the decentralised cooperation), or to know better a particular country.

The letter counts between 16 and 24 pages and is published bimestriellement (6 times a year). She contacts the representatives for associations, the embassies of France in continental Europe, embassies of continental Europe in France, civil servants of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presidents and secretaries of groups of parliamentary friendship, journalists, students, business managers, etc.

Contributors (specialised journalists, academics, researchers, consultants) enrich editorial production.

More than hundred associations are officially members of the committee, but all the groups whom it touches, in a title or in other one, represents about 500 organisations

COLISEE represents about 500 organisations or active coordinations and has unites a file of about 4 addresses

N 50, SPECIAL 15 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE WALL

* 27 countries between hope and instability
* 1989: the exit of communism procreates new Europe
* Central Europe: the home of change
* What future for the Balkan peninsula?
* From USSR to the CIS: towards a second European breath?
* Baltic States: 13 years of found independence
* The impossible unit of the south Caucasus
* The post Soviet Central Asia: political closing and drift
authoritarian
* Human rights in the test of democratic transition
* The explosion of poverty / precariousness
* Economic evolution: unequal results
* The big Transeuropean institutions
* The policy of France east of Europe
* The cooperation decentralised in the service of exchanges is West
* Big associative regroupings
* Birthday: 10 years of COLISEE
* A forerunner: the European Fund for the freedom of expression
* COLISEE: 10 years of accompaniment of European reunification
* The French associations of solidarity with Peco