The Board Members of CEBSD are national or regional community development organisations from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Members share information, exchange ideas and engage in training and research in community and social development.

CEBSD runs European projects, training, conferences and seminars. It is a member of the European Social Platform and works in partnership with other European and international networks such as EAPN and the International Association for Community Development. Members are committed to making the links between policy, research and practice in community development especially in the fields of social inclusion, poverty, citizens’ participation and civil society.

Work on the theme of building civil society in Europe through community development produced the Budapest Declaration in the year of European enlargement (2004). The community workers, researchers, donors and policy makers from government, civil society organisations and community groups, whose aspirations are presented in the Declaration, continue to work together across Europe.

For further information on CEBSD's activities, publications and on how to access CEBSD's information exchange, visit the website at www.cebsd.org and/or contact one of the people listed later in this appendix. You can also contact CEBSD's coordinator, Margo Gorman: tel: +353 749 723129; e-mail: margogorman@eircom.net

Examples of exchange

Dialogue with Communities was a partnership event in Scotland in June 2004 designed to strengthen links between policy and practice in citizens’ participation. Participants explored how they can work towards achieving a relationship between communities and the agencies that serve them, which is based on dialogue and on the prerequisites for dialogue. These were defined as information, respect, listening and learning.

www.scdc.org.uk

Community Development in Europe was a workshop held in Copenhagen in 2003. It contributed to a process of exchange, research and publication on European trends in the theoretical basis for community development and the reflection of this in training for community workers.

www.viboso.be

www.settlementet.dk

Publications

Copies of the following publications cost 10 euros each. They can be ordered from Margo Gorman: margogorman@eircom.net

Guide to equality and the EU

This guide was launched by the Equality Authority in Dublin in 2002.