The EU-funded Eastern Partnership Culture Programme’s Regional Monitoring and Capacity Building Unit has launched a call for applications for its 2013 Cultural Policy Exchange Workshop Cycle. The Workshop Cycle, which is made up of three to four days of workshops, will focus on the elaboration and assessment of cultural strategies and policies with the purpose of motivating cultural policy reforms.
Culture actors and stakeholders from authorities, public and private cultural institutions and civil society of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries are the target group for the workshops. The workshops will provide cultural leadership for up to forty authority representatives, professionals, artists, and managers from the EaP countries and will facilitate the creation of an international network of culture actors in and beyond the context of the EaP Culture Programme. The Workshop Cycle 2013 will run from April to October 2013 (a call for applications for a 2014 Workshop Cycle, which will run from February to June 2014, will be launched this autumn).
The aim of the two workshop cycles is to:
- Promote policy reform and modernisation at government level (national and local), capacity building of cultural organisations, and the ‘professionalisation’ of the culture sector in the partner countries;
- Contribute to exchange of information, experience and best practices among culture actors at regional level and with the EU;
- Support networking of regional initiatives and partnerships, which demonstrate the positive contributions of culture to economic development, social inclusion, conflict resolution and intercultural dialogue.
English and Russian will be the two working languages used during the training but documents for the application package must be submitted in English. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 31 January 2013, 17.00 EET, Kyiv time (time stamp of e-mail sent).
The €12 million Eastern Partnership Culture Programme aims at assisting the Partner Countries in their cultural policy reform at government level, as well as capacity building and improving the professionalism of cultural operators in the region. It seeks to strengthen regional cultural links and dialogue within the Eastern Partnership region, and between the EU and ENP Eastern countries' cultural networks and actors.Workshop Cycle 2013 is scheduled within the period April – October 2013, Workshop Cycle 2014 is planned for the period February – June 2014. A new call for applications to participate in Workshop Cycle 2014 will be launched in autumn 2013.
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