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The main purpose of this paper is the impact assessment analysis of the pilot project Rede@prender carried out in Colombia under the Programme EUROsociAL within the overall context of the Euro-Latin American cooperation. The first part of the paper introduces to, on the one hand, the Euro-Latin American cooperation model and the Programme's overall philosophy, while on the other hand presents the contents of the Colombian policy on education in citizenship competencies within which context the project was carried out. The second part elaborates an in-depth analysis of the main characteristics of the pilot project and tries to give account of its impact and achieved results. Finally, the third and inal part of the text contains some considerations on the application of the evaluation criteria, best practices and lessons learned from the project Rede@prender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current global financial and economic crisis, which has a specially affect in Europe, needs a creative overview in order to address the new architecture of development cooperation and the relationships between Europe and Latin America. This paper analyses the Official Development Aid (ODA) between the European Union and Latin America. Specifically, this paper studies the dynamics that have been developed with the Andean Community, exploring the inclusion and exclusion of civil society organizations that work within pivotal issues for the sub-region. Through this framework, this paper develops in-depth the promotion of good governance, human rights and democracy, that are common goals for States and civil societies in both sides of the Atlantic. Finally, this paper highlights the challenges that must be considered in the new Regional Strategy, where it is already evident that Latin America is a new protagonist, and the civil society organizations are empowered as development actor's beyond as only a denunciators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution stems from a personal interest in expanding Minority Language Media research into the Latin American context. It also arises from a desire to present some of the achievements of Communication for Social Change in Latin America to a European media studies community not acquainted with them. In order to do this, the paper begins by presenting the common ground between the two areas of studies. It draws attention to the fact that language is but one of many cultural aspects under which indigenous and ethnic communities are marginalised from and by the main media outlets in Latin America. Because of this, research into Latin American Minority Language Media needs to have a contextual approach that studies the processes of identity negotiation and participatory agency defined under the concepts of hybridity and convergence. It also demands for research to increase participation of its subjects of inquiry, as consistently requested by practitioners of Communication for Social Change. Finally, both of these aspects, a contextual approach of hybridity and convergence, and the encouragement for more participatory research, are presented as the fundamental dialogue to expand Minority Language Media studies to Latin America and to provide feedback for its further advances in Europe [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]