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• Transeurope Festival in the Balkans EuroAlter Association Romania
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  Transeurope Festival in the Balkans

  Organisation: EuroAlter Association Countries: Romania

  TRANSEUROPA Festival is a unique festival of culture, arts and politics taking place simultaneously in many European cities. It is prepared throughout the year by a team of activists from throughout the continent who prepare one common program that happens in many cities: one festival, one Europe, many locations. In 2012 the Festival aims to consolidate its achievements in Cluj-Napoca and in Sofia, and to extend to Belgrade.
  Belgrade is seen as a base from which this program will reach out to further Balkan countries – and with that in mind, activists from other Balkans countries are invited to participate in TRANSEUROPA Festival 2012. Program of the festival includes debate on the impacts of the ‘brain drain’ phenomenon and how transnationalism in Europe could make sure talented people benefit the whole of Europe, an agora on public square, as well as a fair of barter goods as an example of an alternative gift economy and a social choreography that explains politics through contemporary dance.

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• Third Former West Research Seminar Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Austria
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  Third Former West Research Seminar

  Organisation: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Countries: Austria

  FORMER WEST (FW) (2009–2014) is an international long-term, multifaceted, transdisciplinary project stemming from the field of Contemporary Art. The project was initiated and driven forward by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht under artistic directorship of Maria Hlavajova.
  Goals of the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Seminar under the title “Beyond What Was Contemporary Art” are twofold: Firstly, to analyze the ways in which culture and artistic production relate to the shifting definitions of geopolitical power in and of Europe in from 1989 until today; and secondly, to seek ways to transform these insights into a constructive artistic imagining of possible global futures, based on the body of knowledge generated about this period through the prism of the speculative notion “former West”.

  
  

   
• The Community Awards Gala, the 11th edition Fundatia de Sprijin Comunitar Romania
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  The Community Awards Gala, the 11th edition

  Organisation: Fundatia de Sprijin Comunitar Countries: Romania

  The Gala aims to accentuate and to admit publicly the efforts done by different persons, companies, NGOs and public institutions for the development of the local community development and for solving the social problems. In the same time the Gala wants to collect funds for the unfold of those six programs of communitarian support of “Community Support Foundation”, addressed to children, old and suffering people, and poor rural communities – it is a total of more than 10.000 beneficiaries in Bacau District.

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• The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague – 100 To Watch Sofia Foundation for Culture and Art Bulgaria
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  The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague – 100 To Watch

  Organisation: Sofia Foundation for Culture and Art Countries: Bulgaria

  At its 10th anniversary in 2012, Edno (a bilingual Bulgarian magazine about art and culture) published a book called «The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague – 100 to watch».
  This bilingual edition (in Bulgarian and English) presents 100 Bulgarian artists of the 21st century who work in film, theatre and performance, visual arts, design, music, fashion, literature and architecture. Some of them are already established names; others are only beginning their journey. In their multiplicity they shape Bulgarian contemporary discourse.
  The interdisciplinary method of the project stems from the fact that the boundaries between different arts are thinning out while their interrelationships are becoming more tangible. The presentation of each artist includes visual materials and text written by independent experts in the respective area.
  The sustainability of the project will become visible when «The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague – 100 to watch» establishes its status as an encyclopaedia and an archive that can be used a reference book by professionals and a wide audience, too.

  
  

   
• Social Impact Award 2012 Institut für Entrepreneurship und Innovation der WU Wien Austria
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  Social Impact Award 2012

  Organisation: Institut für Entrepreneurship und Innovation der WU Wien Countries: Austria

   

  In 2012, the Social Impact Award is to be implemented in Austria, Czech Republic and Romania.
  By implementing the award in the CEE region as one international award with local educational programs, it helps to synchronize all implementing countries, to raise awareness across borders, to build up an international community, and to make education in this field accessible to a lot of persons. Especially students, as primary target group, get the opportunity to get in touch very easily with social entrepreneurship, to gain know-how on founding a social venture and the possibility to implement a social project idea. Like this the SIA aims to initiate some social projects throughout the region

  
  

   
• Roma Education Fund 2011 Network of European Foundations for Innovative Collaboration Belgium
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  Roma Education Fund 2011

  Organisation: Network of European Foundations for Innovative Collaboration Countries: Belgium

  Quality education and the inclusion of Roma children in the mainstream school system are key factors in overcoming social exclusion and discrimination. The Roma Education Fund’s (REF) mission and ultimate goal is to close the gap in educational outcomes between Roma and non-Roma.
  The ‘A Good Start’ project is developed to address major disparities in Roma access to early childhood education and care services. It aims to pilot and show the possibility of minimizing the effects of poverty and disadvantage in a target group – to be a protective factor for children and families participating in the project. The core approach of ‘A Good Start’ is to support partner NGOs already working with Roma communities by building upon their existing services so that comprehensive support is available for Roma children and families. ‘A Good Start’ focuses on enhancing children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development through activities related to early education, outreach, parental education and health services. Also, it aims to empower families, particularly female care-givers; prepare children for their transition to compulsory education; and build relationships with local municipalities, government partners and professional networks in order to promote sustainable impacts.

  
  

   
• Open Space, Open Systems 2012 Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Austria
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  Open Space, Open Systems 2012

  Organisation: Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Countries: Austria

  The main objective is the promotion of the research project and exhibition results in Austria and internationally. One of the specific objectives of the project is education of the young generation of artists for a better understanding of social, cultural and political differences between EU countries and neighbouring countries and a promotion of cross-cultural cooperation between the artists and cultural operators from Austria, Italy, France, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Croatia, Serbia and Germany reframed by the new realities of extended European community and Neighboring policy.
  The activities of the programme include public opening of the each exhibition, a series of round table talk/discussions and workshops.

  
  

   
• Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards DeLVe - Institut za trajanje, mjesto i varijable Croatia
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  Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards

  Organisation: DeLVe - Institut za trajanje, mjesto i varijable Countries: Croatia

  “Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards” is an exhibition in the framework of the long-term project “WEIYTH: Where Everything is Yet to Happen”, taking place at Mexico City’s Museo Universitario Arte Contemporanea. It is presenting for the first time historical and more recent Central-Eastern European art production in Mexico and Middle America and involves 19 artists (Chto Delat?, Collective Actions, Gorgona, Igor Grubic, Tibor Hajas, Irwin, Sanja Ivekovic, Milan Knizak, Julius Koler, Andreja Kuluncic, David Maljkovic, Kazimir Malevich, Ahmet Ogut, Dan Perjovschi, Anri Sala, Mladen Stilinovic, Nicoline van Harskamp, Artur Zmijewski), two film-screenings, series of lectures and a publication.
  Responding to the invitation by the museum to reflect on the concepts of utopia and the future from an Eastern European perspective, the project questions the very concept of Eastern Europe and resists narratives constructed around the equasion of ‘art despite totalitarianism and reppression’ in the East vs. the ‘free expression’ of the artist in the West. Rather, it points to the legacies of the link between art and revolution in ex-socialist countries, articulating art as a primarily socially engaged and transformative practice. The project aims to question how these processes translate into the specific Mexican context, and what new meanings the productions of CEE artists aquire through this encounter.

  
  

   
• Investment Ready Warm-Up emersense e.V. Austria
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  Investment Ready Warm-Up

  Organisation: emersense e.V. Countries: Austria

  The Investment Ready Program (IRP) is an initiative of Social-Impact International, emersense and the Hub Vienna to advance social entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) through capacity building and catalyzing investment into the sector. The IRP builds on the success of the proven Dasra Social-Impact (DSI) programme in India and localizes it for CEE, while partnering with regional referral partners to source candidates, delivery partners for mentoring and coaching, and international impact investors. The IRP has a seminal effect on channeling capital, international contacts, know-how, and global best-practice models to social entrepreneurs in CEE, a market largely unconnected internationally and underserved by the global impact investing industry.
  Program brings together ventures from across CEE and is designed as a stand-alone product that provides all participants with a direct experience of the program’s benefits. Participants learn to think like an investor, understand how to become investable etc., but also benefit from peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching and mentoring, and develop valuable contacts in the international social enterprise and impact investment industry.

  
  

   
• Dui Roma – Zwei Lebenskünstler Baro Ilo Verein zur Förderung von Kultur und Sprache der Roma Austria
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  Dui Roma – Zwei Lebenskünstler

  Organisation: Baro Ilo Verein zur Förderung von Kultur und Sprache der Roma Countries: Austria

  The movie „ Dui Roma – Two Bon-Vivants“ is a documentary that tells the story about Hugo Höllenreiner, Sinti from Germany, the victim of Dr. Josef Mengeles, that survived the concentration camp. He tells his experiences to the young composer, student Adrian Gaspar from Pojejena in Romania, that lives in Vienna. Gaspar is emotionally occupied with things he heard and creates his first symphonic work: “Symphonia Romani – Bari Duk”- a 45-minute long composition with orchestra, chore and bass.

  The movie shows that a person shouldn’t stay anchored in the past, but should wake up and do something for it’s present: A sad story from the survivor of the concentration camp was a reason why a talented young composer created one beautiful composition of classical music. The messages to Roma that come out of the movie are that they can be self-confident; that they should enjoy their life (even though they may live under extreme conditions), respect big treasure that they have (their language) and find themselves role-models in other successful Roma, and that they mustn’t give up. On the other hand, the Gadje (non- Roma) are asked to learn to appreciate the potential of the Roma and to eliminate their image as the “poor, criminal, lazy Gypsy”.

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• Das Gemeinsame, das es nicht mehr gibt Parameter - Verein für neue Formen von kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs Austria
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  Das Gemeinsame, das es nicht mehr gibt

  Organisation: Parameter - Verein für neue Formen von kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs Countries: Austria

  The state of Yugoslavia fell apart in the year of 1992. Political and socio-cultural changes that came into being due to this disintegration are a common topic ever since, and the restructuring processes show up to be very complex and multi-layered. So much needed reconstruction and construction of new cultural and political identities, as well as their new positioning on the international stage implied also new identities. At the same time, they demanded a deconstruction of the trough the Yugoslavian state created moral values and beliefs.
  The “Time in-Between” is defined trough the simultaneous processing of the experienced, as well as the re-contextualization and new orientation of the already produced works. If all demands a new view of the author, the question appears: Is there then the “Art of the In-Between” at all? Further questions that turn up are also the ones querying the influence of the social changes to the art production or the ones discussing if the social change is going to interrupt the estethical continuum of the Yugoslavian art.
  The intention of the exhibition “Togetherness, that doesan´t exist any more” is not to give clear answers to these questions, but to offer new impetus to the discussion on this topic on the basis of the existing works.

  
  

   
• Berlin-Beyond the Ruins Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana - KSAK, Chsiianu Moldova
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  Berlin-Beyond the Ruins

  Organisation: Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana - KSAK, Chsiianu Countries: Moldova

  The film looks at Berlin after the fall of the Wall as the city struggles to re-establish itself as the cultural and political capital of Germany after the unification of Eastern and Western Berlin. The New Berlin reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and “remembered futures,” a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German.

  The project is conceived as investigative documentary and its main goal is to explore the transformations of the city of Berlin from cross-disciplinary platform by involving a number of experts and political and cultural activists to clarify these issues. Developing a film about Berlin considers to be an opportunity for visual artist to express their position as main actors in the process of transformation of the city over the last decades, or debate what national past should be remembered, for whom, where, and in what form. Through a complex interweaving of field trips, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, art in public spaces and other sources, it is revealed how these locations and spaces uniquely exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

  www.art.md

  
  

   
• Academy of Social Entrepreneurship Nadace VIA Czech Republic
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  Academy of Social Entrepreneurship

  Organisation: Nadace VIA Countries: Czech Republic

  The Academy of Social Entrepreneurship accelerates development of mission-related social enterprises throughout the Czech Republic. This capacity-building program supports the development and growth of Czech social enterprises.
  Social entrepreneurship is concept that can significantly contribute to solving many social issues that Czech society faces. It creates jobs for people who would otherwise stay at margins of society, re-activates stagnant communities and puts forward innovative economic and/or environmental solutions. Social enterpreneurship also helps to generate sources of independent income for NGOs to be invested into their programmatic work or overall development of the organization.While the program is designed to accelerate growth of their organization’s operations, increase their revenue streams and enable them to employ more people and reach more beneficiaries as a result, it also strengthens the network of Czech experts and practitioners in the field and shares learnt lessons among other NGOs.
  Via’s programming is at the moment the only comprehensive NGO Capacity-building program for Czech social enterprises available in Czech language, using Czech expertise and resources.

  www.nadacevia.cz