YOUTHopia! volume 1 | Page 22

PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION, ROMANIA – members of Y-SRN Project “European Parliament of the Youth” A short description of our town, Alba Iulia Municipality: Alba Iulia (63 000 inhabitants) is the place where on December 1st 1918 the Union Act of Transylvania with Romania was signed. According to the historical monuments list in Romania approved by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, Alba Iulia Municipality remains one of the most important historical monuments of Romania while Alba Carolina Citadel with all its interior and exterior spaces, ravelines and bastions is included within the national heritage interest monuments list, being the largest citadel in Romania. Moreover, through the 26th Decision of the Romanian Parliament from 30 November 1994, Alba Iulia Municipality is officially considered to be The Citadel - Symbol of the Greatest Union of the Romanian Nation. For more information about our city please see the following link: http://turism.apulum.ro/, https://www.facebook.com/primariaalbaiulia. PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION founded in 1995 is a non-governmental organization that is vary involves in implementing communication projects with and for the citizens of our local community, The main purpose of the Foundation is to identify, conceive and implement actions for economic and social development in Alba County. IN 2013 PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION has obtained the status of organization of public utility from the Romanian Government thus recognizing the important role played by the Foundation at the local and regional level. The main aims of PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION are: to elaborate and to promote programs focused on the youth; to offer information and counseling services concerning the social, economic, cultural rights of the disadvantaged people; to promote a durable development of Alba Iulia Municipality; to fight against corruption; to fight against abuses of all kind (social, animal care, economical, etc.); to promote, elaborate and implement actions and programs in the social, economic and environmental-protection fields; to elaborate and implement community social services; to elaborate and implement programs for improving the inter-ethnical climate and to promote the inter-cultural relations; to identify projects and measures necessary for creating labour places; to elaborate developing strategies of the tourist potential of the city.