Tulip Foundation organised the first of a series of training meetings in the frame of a project “Promotion of older people’s social inclusion through national and local public debates” on 8 April 2009. The training was realised in cooperation with Pleven Public Fund Chitalishte. The participants got acquainted with the mechanisms of the European Union in the field of social inclusion and a methodology for organising meetings with socially excluded people and stimulating their participation in the process of policy making. Some 30 participants represented local associations and Chitalishte from the North West Bulgaria that work with elderly people, children and youngsters; social and educational institutions, women etc.