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“EULEX Kosovo” is the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo
Dutch Institute for Political Participation
The Dutch Institute for Political Participation (IPP) is an independent, non-partisan organisation that promotes political and social participation, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Some of its projects are subsidised by the central government. Besides that, a substantial part of its revenue is generated by commissions from provincial and municipal authorities, other government agencies, and non-governmental organisations. Find here some of our successful running projects:
June 2009 elections will be on the European Parliament in each of the 27 member states of the European Union. In 2004 the first European VoteMatch was launched, by answering 30 statements with ‘agree’, ‘don’t agree’ or ‘don’t know’ one could see what European party or fraction most met ones political preference. The European VoteMatch is still online at www.votematch.eu.
The European VoteMatch was modelled after the StemWijzer, the very successful political preference test in the Netherlands, developed over the past fifteen years into the most used internet site in election times, reaching more than 4.7 mln. users at the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, November 2006.
Already since the 1990s the IPP has been successfully implementing the project ‘Find your way in local government’ in the Netherlands. At the moment every year 2000 pupils from 40 Dutch municipalities participate in the project. The goal is to give young people aged 14-19 years old the conditions and the opportunities to acquire skills necessary for taking an active part in local democratic decision-making processes.
De Haagse Tribune is successfully running for the second year now. It has been developed especially for secondary schools. Each day two or three classes from across the country visit The Hague to participate in this project. During the day they become in an active and involved way familiar with the Dutch political system, the constitutional monarchy.
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