Erste Foundation Bond
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Europe, Events
ThinkYoung present: Sustainable Kosovo
How to develop the youth potential? – Conference 5 March 2012, 1.30 pm, rue De La Science 14b, Brussels The problem of Kosovo is part of ongoing international and European debates. The history of this region is highly controversial. Kosovo’s current status is the result of the turmoil of the breakup of Yugoslavia, particularly [...]more
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ERSTE Foundation, Open Calls, Social Development
Push the button, change the world!
Are you a student from Austria, Czech Republic or Romania? Do you have entrepreneurial spirit and ideas and you would like to make a contribution to the society? Now you have the chance to be part of a group of motivated young people with the same interests, to further build up your business and managerial [...]more -
Europe, Events
On Solidarity: The State and the Crisis
11 March 2012, 11 am Public Debate There is something strange and disturbing about the current economic and political crisis in Europe. Democratic institutions are more transparent than ever but at the same time less trusted than ever. Democratic elites are more meritocratic than ever but more resented than ever. Our societies are more open [...]more -
Culture, Invitation
Care Crisis
Exhibition opening: 9 March 2012, 6 pm 9 March – 27 May 2012 FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, http://www.futuraproject.cz/ Holečkova 49, 15000 Prague 5 Curated by: Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis Participating artists: Mieke Bal (NL), Ursula Biemann (CH), María Galindo (BO), Gabriela Golder (AR), Elżbieta Jabłońska (PL), Gülsün Karamustafa (TR), Andreja Kulunčić (HR), Mau [...]more -
Culture, Events
Political Design Workshop
Public presentations 25 February 2012, 2-6 pm Trafó Café, Budapest A political design workshop is being organised about the possibilities, resources and methods for the communication of political thinking, held by international designers and theoreticians. The aim of the workshop is to gain the theoretical and practical knowledge which helps to form opinions supporting [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events, Social Development
Franz Karl Prüller elected in the Advisory Board for Development Policy of the Austrian Foreign Ministry
On 20 February the Austrian Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger opened the first session of the Advisory Board for Development Policy of the Austrian Foreign Ministry. The body consists of experts who on voluntary basis provide advice to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on issues related to Austrian development cooperation. We are happy to announce that Franz [...]more -
Culture, ERSTE Foundation, Invitation
The Mobile Archive at tranzitdisplay
A project of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon 24.02 – 03.06.2012 Opening: 23.2. 6 p.m. tranzitdisplay: Dittrichova 9/337 120 00, Prague 2 tranzit.cz is, for over three months, the host of an extensive Israeli multimedia archive, which includes most of the important Israeli media artworks. The Mobile Archive, initiated in 2007, is [...]more -
Culture
WHATEVER #3 POST-HOC DRAMATURGY lab reader launched
With the support of ERSTE Foundation, BADco., a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, started to launch a series of contributions as a part of WHATEVER #3 POST-HOC DRAMATURGY: Reflections on poetics of presentation and circulation in performing arts in a form of a lab reader.WHATEVER #3, POST-HOC DRAMATURGY is a reader resulting from [...]more -
Events, General Funding
Solo for Lu
Theatre Performance Premiere 28 and 29 February 2012, 8 pm Archa Theatre Na Poříčí 26, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic The Archa Theatre in Prague has launched in 2011 a project WHERE IS MY HOME? that deals with the topics of xenophobia and migration through a combination of music and theatre. In collaboration with [...]more -
Europe, Events
Debating Europe: Money and Morals – Is Europe’s system of values endangered?
26 February 2012, 11 am Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 2, 1010 Vienna The social market economy has been the dominant system in continental Europe ever since the end of the Second World War. However, since the financial crisis of 2008/09 and the euro crisis, this system has begun to crumble. Social security systems are [...]more -
Culture, Events
Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards
Exhibition Duration: 25 February - 25 May 2012 Opening: 25 February 2012 at 1:30 p.m. Venue: Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City “Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards” is an exhibition project curated by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača in the framework of the long-term project “WEIYTH: Where Everything is Yet to Happen”. This exhibition will present [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
Open Call: Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists 2012/2013
The Milena Jesenská Fellowship program offers European journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice. Journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey are also eligible to apply. Applicants are asked to relate their proposals to one of the main research fields of the IWM [...]more -
Social Development
“Tu was, dann tut sich was”: winners of the first jury meeting announced
This year’s first jury meeting of the project “Tu was, dann tut sich was” ( Throw the ball to get things rolling) took place in Leoben, Styria. A renowned jury selected the 22 winning projects, among which also the following three outstanding initiatives: Cafe International – international students at Montan University in Leoben will get [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Ivan Angelovski, Serbia
Ivan Angelovski The Sad Truth About Serbian Media A ministry that pays hundreds of Euros to a newspaper for positive coverage; a telecommunications company which spends one third of its marketing budget for press services – the Serbian media is almost completely dependent on the country’s political and business elite, a new critical report has [...]more -
Culture, Events
UNFINISHED MODERNISATIONS: Exhibition
Location: Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6, Maribor, Slovenia 10 February 2012 – 22 April 2012 Opening: Friday, 10 February 2012, 7 p.m. The exhibition „Unfinished Modernisations“ will present numerous architectural projects, ranging from tourist experiments on the Adriatic coastline, concepts for new cities and presentation pavilions at international exhibitions, to disreputable public edifices and [...]more -
Culture, Invitation
tranzit.hu: Seminar with The Otolith Group
The guests of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice in February are the London-based artists “The Otolith Group” (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun). Public lecture: 21 February 2012, 6pm Ludwig Museum Budapest (1095 Komor Marcell u. 1.), lecture hall Screening and talk The Otolith Group: Anathema, 2011 With the participation of the [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
Open Call: School Network ACES starts new project contest
“Reality Check – How we perceive and construct the world through media” is the theme of this year’s call for cross-border school projects. The competition is organised by the Academy of Central European Schools – aces, one of the largest international school networks in the region. Mass media – and especially digital media – [...]more -
Culture, Events
WITNESSES XXI – Revisiting the past
Exhibition at PLATFORMA (MNAC-Anexa) Calea Mosilor 62-68, etaj 1, Bucuresti 1 – 19 February 2012 Opening on 1 February, 6:00 p.m. WITNESSES XXI – REVISITING THE PAST is a collection of video interviews with artists, art critics and art historians who played a key role on the Romanian art scene before 1989. They answer questions [...]more -
Events, General Funding
€uroXibition
4 – 11 February 2012 Opening 4 February 2012 , 4 pm The National and University Library of Kosovo Trg Hasan Pristina, Pristina Club Alpbach Belgrade and Initiative Group Alpbach Kosovo are warmly welcoming you to the opening of €uroXibition. Groups of young academics, professionals and students, members of Club Alpbach Belgrade (CAB) and Initiative [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Cynthia L. Haven, USA
Cynthia L. Haven Hot New Social Media Maybe Not so New: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose Imagine there’s no email, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Internet at all. What would you do? How would you communicate? How would you stay in touch with others? Maybe you would do what people did in [...]more -
Europe, Open Calls
Applications Open for 2012 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence
Working on an investigation about communities in the Balkans? Don’t miss your chance to scoop a €2,000 journalism bursary, receive travel and research expenses and attend career development seminars in Vienna and Skopje. Experienced journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are invited to apply for the sixth [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
“I know no weekend”. Socially Committed Art in Eastern Europe
Call for Art Students Application Deadline: 31 January 2012 Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986, Germany) is now considered as one of the most influential artists of the 21st Century, though or because his work produced controversial debates about contemporary art and the socio-political commitment of artists in the 1970s and 1980s. Today his approach seems [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
Visiting ERSTE Foundation: Rundek Cargo Trio
Rundek Cargo Trio is a sort of Balkan gothic cabaret, worldwide, full of sound and fury, defying any attempt of categorisation. It was funded by Darko Rundek, one of the main exponents of the former Yugoslav New Wave in the early 80´s who left Zagreb to Paris during the civil war and who seems forever [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Vukša Veličković, Serbia
Inside Gaddafi’s Tent: the Colonel’s Yugoslav Connection Vukša Veličković Libyan dictator Muammar al Gaddafi is no more. However, until his very end, he kept close ties with Serbian and Croatian politicians. A Yugoslav connection with tradition. Back in the 1970s, Josip Broz Tito had been a close friend. For the majority of post-Yugoslav states, Gaddafi [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
PATTERNS Lectures – Open Call until 19 March
Call for submission of proposals for university courses PATTERNS Lectures is launching a new call to encourage the development of university courses in the fields of art history, cultural studies and cultural sciences. The call addresses lecturers at public universities in Central and South Eastern Europe who share PATTERNS’ areas of interest and are interested [...]more -
Culture, Open Calls
Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators – Open Call
“Traduttore – traditore, so they say. We all do: translate! This is now the law of survival.” (Norman Manea) The Institute for Human Sciences and ERSTE Foundation encourage translators in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies to apply for the prestigious Paul Celan Fellowship. The program aims to overcome deficits and asymmetries in [...]more -
Europe, Events
Debating Europe: Is European unity in danger?
22 January 2012, 11 am Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 2, 1010 Vienna The crisis surrounding the euro has created deep disparities. Germany and France are leading the way, while the other states feel pushed to the brink. Not all member states see it as their responsibility to pay for the financial problems of other [...]more -
Europe
Blogging Jesenská: Oleksiy Radynski, Poland/Ukraine
We are all Russians now Oleksiy Radynski “Putin Out,” protesters are chanting in the streets of Moscow. Thousands of Russians are defying the bitter cold to hold the biggest anti-government rallies since the fall of the Soviet Union. Are we now witnessing an Orange Revolution in Russia? As the arrests of hundreds of protesters show, [...]more -
Culture, Events
CLEAR HISTORY: Moldova’s unknown past
16th, 17th and 23rd of January 2012, 8 PM spalatorie-theatre, Chisinau, Moldova With Veaceslav Sambriş, Doriana Talmazan and Irina Vacarciuc Author of the project: Nicoleta Esinencu http://spalatorie.md/ In Moldova some consider Marshall Antonescu, a former Romanian military leader, a hero who has ordered the soldiers to cross the Prut River and defend Moldova; for a [...]more