The support platform for EDUSI will meet all the groups of Benidorm to collect their proposals

The goal is to reach the thousand surveys so that citizen participation permeates the whole project and improves it

The 'Edusiónate' campaign is also visiting the neighborhoods and a drawing contest will be called

The civic platform supporting the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI), promoted within the Neighborhood Council, has designed for the coming weeks a calendar of meetings with all the groups of Benidorm to collect their impressions on the city, and more concretely what they believe are their strengths, their shortcomings and their opportunities. This has been announced today by the first and second vice-president of the Neighborhood Council, Fernando Montes and Cristian Corraini; and the spokesman for this body in various working commissions, Juan Antonio Lizancos, during a press conference in which also participated the Councilor for Citizen Participation, Mª Jesús Pinto.

Montes explained that the objective of this platform is "to make known to the broadest group of all types what EDUSI is and what it can mean for Benidorm in terms of funding." A funding that would come from European funds and that would enable "projects that improve the quality of life of citizens in a global strategy on which to base future actions."

The first vice-president of the Neighborhood Council insisted that "one of the pillars on which EDUSI is evaluated is that citizen participation permeates the whole document", something that was not conveniently achieved in the previous call. Hence, a round of meetings will be scheduled to begin this Thursday, the 19th, with a meeting with social associations, Equality, NGOs and religious entities. The following week, on Tuesday 24, will be the turn of the sporting and festive entities; and two days later we will mention those of a cultural and educational nature. The meeting with business organizations will be on October 31.

Lizancos said that these meetings are part of the campaign 'Edusiónate' launched by the platform and also includes visits to different neighborhoods to explain to neighbors and visitors what EDUSI is and how you can participate in it . In addition, within 'Edusiónate' a competition has been planned for the children to draw Benidorm and 'thus involving citizens'.

The Councilor for Citizen Participation has stressed that from her department "we are going to work side by side" with this civic platform to "excite the groups, reach more people, get more proposals and raise funds to develop EDUSI, which it would be so good for us. "

Origin of the platform

Lizancos explained that initially it was going to be the Neighborhood Council to take the campaign to encourage the active participation of citizens in the EDUSI, as it did in the traditional Fira of October 9 with the distribution of leaflets and "an image corporate "based" on the colors of Benidorm; blue and white. " However, "we saw that we were not enough" and that it was indispensable "to involve more groups". "That is why the platform of support for EDUSI is born," he clarified.

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