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Issues

To identify the burning issues, we asked the participants to write down social issues they are confronted with in their professional life. Afterwards each person was asked to vote for the different issues, by subjective importance.

• Lack of awareness – Don’t care; Don’t know; Media (2 votes)
• Information, public opinion and access, quality (2 votes)
• “Self-Ghettoisation” from society, social groups or activists (5 votes)
• Develop tools for empowering the poor (5 votes)
• Lobby for the improvement of access to education (6 votes)
• Face – to – Face Activism (7 votes)
• Improving education that is informal, to reduce discrimination (7 Votes)
• Encourage civil courage and enable civil action (9 votes)
• Active public involvement in situations vs. indifference, ignorance, isolation

(9 votes)

• Education:

1. Access
2. No value for quality
3. Diversity
4. Lack of information

(10 votes)

• Civil society development

1. Networking
2. NGO – Government cooperation
3. Civil participation
4. Transperancy

(11 votes)

• Effective communication to create capable interacting communities (12 votes)

• Violence:

1. Female
2. Minorities
3. No public moral sanction
4. Media

(13 votes)

• Awareness raising against discrimination (14 votes)