Croatia

Members of ERSTE Foundation Community in Croatia: Curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/WHW from Zagreb, winner of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2008

• Erste Foundation Factory

  aces - Academy of Central European Schools

  Do you think that education contributes to the process of European integration? Would you like to participate in shaping the [...]

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  Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

  Journalists from the Balkans did not have many opportunities to travel abroad or to participate in appropriate training. Hence, they [...]

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• Erste Foundation Factory

  ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration

  For many countries in Central and South Eastern Europe, the fall of Communism was the most dramatic change in several [...]

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• Erste Foundation Factory

  European Fund for the Balkans

  Have you ever wondered how individuals and organisations from the Western Balkan countries can get closer to the European Union? [...]

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• Erste Foundation Factory

  KomenskýFond

  "Omnes, omnia, omnino.” (Teach everything in-depth to everyone.) This quote of Johann Amos Comenius is the motto of KomenskýFond, established [...]

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  PATTERNS Lectures

  PATTERNS Lectures supports the development of new university courses in Central and South Eastern Europe in the fields of art [...]

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• Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena

  In the Western Balkans the collapse of the socialist economic system in former Yugoslavia and Albania has given rise to [...]

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• European Schools for a Living Planet

  Until recently, natural resources have been more than sufficient to support human needs. However, WWF’s 2006 biennial Living Planet Report [...]

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• Kakanien - New Homelands

  Speech series at Vienna’s Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz. More then twenty years have passed since the autumn of 1989, when Austria ceased [...]

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• Erste Foundation Factory

  Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe

  Climate change, political conflicts, the poverty trap and the economic crisis – these are the key issues today. The issue [...]

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• Flow - Festival of Conversation in Culture and Science

  Flow is an innovative cross-border communication and networking platform for today’s and tomorrow’s young producers of culture, art and knowledge [...]

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• Good Luck! Migration Today - Perspectives from Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb and Istanbul

  Linked by the Austrian government's policy to recruit workers from Croatia, Serbia and Turkey in the 1960s, these four countries experienced [...]

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• The Balkan Case Challenge

   If you are an excellent student of law, economics, political or technical sciences, if you are going to finish your [...]

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• 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.
  

   
• CIMAM’s 2011 Annual Conference ‘Museums and the City’ International Council of Museums (ICOM) Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
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  CIMAM’s 2011 Annual Conference ‘Museums and the City’

  Organisation: International Council of Museums (ICOM) Countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France

  CIMAM’s 2011 Annual Conference ‘Museums and the City’ takes place in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo from 14 to 16 November with a post-conference tour to Sarajevo. Invited are around 170 directors and curators of modern and contemporary institutions from museums all over the world. The aim of the conference is to show that art institutions are instruments of social and cultural preservation and to promote the knowledge and understanding of their nature, functions and roles. icom.museum
  

   
• Europe & You South East Europe TV Exchanges Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
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  Europe & You

  Organisation: South East Europe TV Exchanges Countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia

  This mini-TV-series (10 episodes, each of them 20 minutes) treats and discusses all the interesting aspects of the EU integration for the Balkans. As good examples for dealing with this topic personalities from Western Europe, who are fighting for the rights of minorities, the protection of environment etc., are showcased in this series.   www.seetv-exchanges.com
  

   
• 5th Jewish film Festival Zagreb Udruga "Festival suvremenog židovskog filma Zagreb" Croatia
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  5th Jewish film Festival Zagreb

  Organisation: Udruga "Festival suvremenog židovskog filma Zagreb" Countries: Croatia

  An ongoing cultural and educational programme that promotes the history and culture of Jewish people with a special emphasis on the historical period of the Holocaust. It celebrated its fifth edition from 22 to 28 May in Zagreb with a focus on the theme “Women in the Holocaust”. http://www.jff-zagreb.hr/en/
  

   
• Morning Flower Children’s Center in Vodnjan Udruga za promicanje kreativnosti "Merlin" Croatia
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  Morning Flower Children’s Center in Vodnjan

  Organisation: Udruga za promicanje kreativnosti "Merlin" Countries: Croatia

  The “Morning Flower Children´s Center´s” activities ensure that Roma children enrol and remain in the educational system and provide guidance in spending free time for children and young people through quality activities useful for everyday life, employment opportunities and integration into society. The project is implemented in cooperation with the local administration and elementary school by professionals in both languages. It fosters tolerance, gender equality and openness towards different cultural values. Annually 85% of the Roma children that participated in the program (attending the Vodnjan Elementary School) from both genders regularly finish each grade and elementary school. Activities in this project are implemented in five programs: preschool and musical playgroup (age 3-7; develops emotional, psycho-physical and social skills); small school (prepares children age 5-7 for inclusion in to the school); assistance with school work (increases the abilities and motivation of elementary school children to successfully master the academic program in order to reduce the risk of lack of success and leaving school); computer and skills workshops. www.merlinpula.hr
  

   
• Diving for People with Disabilities Ronilački klub "GeRonimo" Croatia
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  Diving for People with Disabilities

  Organisation: Ronilački klub "GeRonimo" Countries: Croatia

  For people who are to a greater or lesser degree limited in their mobility every free movement means a lot. This project gives them the opportunity to reach the level where they can dive on their own. For them diving means an undisturbed movement in all three dimensions, without architectural barriers, not to mention that diving offers a way to maintain good physical conditioning and a healthy life style while spending time on diving trips and socializing with different people who have a common interest - love of diving. Besides popularizing diving among people with disabilities and motivating more people with disabilities to dive, thuis program enables continuous diving of our members with disabilities. The main goal is also to adapt at least one Croatian diving center to the needs of the disabled. There would people with disabilities be confident that all the necessary infrastructure are in place to enable unhindered access and entrance into the sea. Considering that this is the first such center in Europe, and probably in the world, we would be able to expand the reach and offer these services to people with disabilities from outside of Croatia. www.rkgeronimo.hr
  

   
• Shelter and Counseling Center for Women and Children Victims of Violence Autonomna ženska kuća Zagreb Croatia
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  Shelter and Counseling Center for Women and Children Victims of Violence

  Organisation: Autonomna ženska kuća Zagreb Countries: Croatia

  This project offers woman and children, who have experienced family violence, a safe place to stay and legal support. Furthermore, it wants to raise awareness among the public and in institutions for problematic situation of the victims, and to improve present and create new laws to protect women. The centre is creating positive precedent in the treatment of women victims of violence in institutional practices; improving the implementation of new legislation and applying protection measures; increasing the level of public awareness about the concrete problems in realizing human rights of abused women through the media and various public actions; improving reporting to the public, institutions and international organization about the problems of violence against women through the results of our work and an analysis of social, legal and institutional position of abused women, and opening new shelters for women. Further on, the centre is offering security and protection at an undisclosed shelter for up to one year; physical and psychological recovery and empowerment for women and children; helps to solve the existential problems of women and to enhance the level of information and awareness about their rights to a life without violence and the strength and conviction to fight for it. It helps to teach women about the legal, medical and social welfare systems and how to use the systems for their benefit and how to prevent future violence. www.azkz.net
  

   
• Roses of Saint Francis Homeless shelter in Rijeka Order of St. Francis, Local Chapter "Trsat" Croatia
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  Roses of Saint Francis Homeless shelter in Rijeka

  Organisation: Order of St. Francis, Local Chapter "Trsat" Countries: Croatia

  The goal of the project is not only to offer homeless people the most necessary service i.e. a place to spend the night, rather above all to empower them to reintegrate into society, depending on their psycho-physical and other abilities, using work therapy and rehabilitation. http://fsrtrsat.blog.hr
  

   
• Second Worlds What, How and for Whom / WHW Croatia
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  Second Worlds

  Organisation: What, How and for Whom / WHW Countries: Croatia

  “Second Worlds” consists of a series of three exhibitions and four lectures and is conceived as a collaboration between the curatorial collective “What, How & for Whom / WHW”, “Gallery Nova” from Zagreb and “Steirischer Herbst”, Graz.

  The aim of the project is to develop interdisciplinary collaboration involving significant research and to support a number of new artworks that would otherwise not be created. The theme of "Second Worlds" is developed from distinct perspective focusing on the notion of 'second world' along the temporal axis, looking at the set of possibilities entailed in the notion of 'second time', as repetition and replaying in relation to the past. 'Second world' as notion opens up a number of associations based on the assumption that there are more worlds than the one we live in: parallel worlds, possible worlds, worlds beyond reality, desired worlds, different worlds. At the same time, our sense of reality is burdened by feeling of extreme fragility and contingency, related to perception of reality as one of the possible outcomes that might have turned differently; in which other possible outcomes continue to haunt us as a spectre of what might have happened. "Second Worlds" looks for threads connecting historical experiences to proposal for future ways of being-in-common. http://www.erstestiftung.org/blog/culture/second-world/  
  

   
• Free Motovun – School of Human Rights Motovun Film Festival Croatia
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  Free Motovun – School of Human Rights

  Organisation: Motovun Film Festival Countries: Croatia

  The project was envisioned as a multimedia human rights school for all festival visitors who will use the acquired experience in their own living environment. Other than the educative component, Free Motovun is a place for organizing annual meetings of activists and artists who work on human rights issues in partnership with the ERSTE Foundation.

  
  

   
• Unfinished Modernisations-Between Utopia and Pragmatism UDRUŽENJE HRVATSKIH ARHITEKATA Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia
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  Unfinished Modernisations-Between Utopia and Pragmatism

  Organisation: UDRUŽENJE HRVATSKIH ARHITEKATA Countries: Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia

  Unfinished Modernisations is a collaborative, long-term research platform on architecture and urban planning.  It brings together partners from both institutional and non-institutional sectors from South-Eastern Europe. The project is the first comprehensive attempt to interpret the architectural culture and urban environments of the region within their social, economic, and political contexts, bringing together collaborative efforts and diverse research methods aimed at the education and civic empowerment of the public. The activities will include twelve research topics, five conferences and workshops, including public lectures by prominent European experts, five exhibitions and three publications, including a final book and a web-site with extensive work-in-progress database accessible to the public. http://www.unfinishedmodernisations.net/pages/about-project-2
  

   
• Art Always Has Its Consequences What, How and for Whom / WHW Croatia
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  Art Always Has Its Consequences

  Organisation: What, How and for Whom / WHW Countries: Croatia

  The publication is a result and a recapitulation of a two-year collaborative platform that explored practices through which art reaches its audience and their significance for broader relations between art and society, focusing on four thematic strands: the history of exhibitions, artists’ texts, conceptual design, typography, and institutional archives. The book consists of three chapters, the first chapter contains of a chronology of the overall project events and exhibitions of the past two years. The second chapter is a reader of newly commissioned essays and reprints of relevant historical texts written or selected for the book around the issue of the former East by Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Renata Salecl, Boris Buden, Ozren Popovac, Maciej Gdula, Gal Kirn, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Elena Filipovic, interviews and the documentation of the closing exhibition of the project, Art Always Has Its Consequences organized in Zagreb in May 2010. The third section is a documentation of the closing exhibition in Zagreb.

  
  

   
• Zagreb Conceptual, Conceptualization of art in Zagreb from 1950 till today Umjetnost zajednice / Community Art Croatia
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  Zagreb Conceptual, Conceptualization of art in Zagreb from 1950 till today

  Organisation: Umjetnost zajednice / Community Art Countries: Croatia

  Zagreb has a long tradition in conceptual art. In the previous sixty years artists acted on social reality - considering the world in which they live as a focal point of their artistic field. But these activities are still not visible because of a lack of books and publications on these issues. The project "Zagreb Conceptual, Conceptualization of art in Zagreb from 1950 till today" wants to question the heritages, continuities and identity of the conceptual and avant-garde tradition in Croatia. In dealing with innovative practices of contemporary art in Zagreb the project could contribute to a re-interpretation of art in the whole region.

  
  

   
• Film Mutations: The Festival of Invisible Cinema FILM-PROTUFILM Umjetnička organizacija Croatia
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  Film Mutations: The Festival of Invisible Cinema

  Organisation: FILM-PROTUFILM Umjetnička organizacija Countries: Croatia

  The aim of the Festival is to create a platform for an internationally connected discourse on film culture which would actualize innovative ideas of intercultural collaboration and interconnected knowledge that have been missing in Croatia and the region for some time. Film Mutations wants to create continuities between the gaps and learn how to differentiate local histories of cinema.

  
  

   
• Education of History Teachers: Building of a European Network Universität Wien - Fachdidaktisches Zentrum für Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Politische Bildung Moldova, Macedonia, Kosovo, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine
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  Education of History Teachers: Building of a European Network

  Organisation: Universität Wien - Fachdidaktisches Zentrum für Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Politische Bildung Countries: Moldova, Macedonia, Kosovo, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine

  This three-year project aims at producing a comparative study on the education of history teachers on a European level irrespective of EU borders. Results of this comparative study will be published in the framework of the Council of Europe and disseminated in the network of the Council of Europe, the European Assosciation of History Educatiors and by a new eJournal of Didactics of History and Political Education.

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• 10 days 1 Unity BADco. - Bezimeno autorsko društvo Croatia
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  10 days 1 Unity

  Organisation: BADco. - Bezimeno autorsko društvo Countries: Croatia

  10 days 1 Unity is a project bringing together in one place members of the Zagreb-based performing collective BADco. and an international group of prominent performing artists for a ten-day laboratory (25.10. - 03.11.2010) in Zagreb. Both collectives worked for ten days in the same space that functioned as a stage of work and as an open theatre of discussions and performances. This laboratory is focusing on memory and historic consciousness, devising methodologies of recuperating what artists have had to leave behind the high pace of production – abandoned ideas,  propositions never realized, lost traces. The project is aimed at gathering a georgraphically diverse group of performing artists and is a chance for local SEE artists to engage with artists with whom they share an intelectuall and creative affinity, but due to working in an underdeveloped production system they are not able to collaborate and co-produce with. http://badco.hr/2010/10/13/10d1u/
  

   
• Replaying the Balkans Domino Croatia
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  Replaying the Balkans

  Organisation: Domino Countries: Croatia

  The project brings together films and videos of various formats from the 1950s through the 60s from archives, public and private collections and subjects them to a new interpretation. From a Queer Theory perspective, previously hidden points of view are presented and open up therefore new interpretive possibilities where the notion of “queerness” represents all behavioural modes and strategies that exist outside the norm, whether sexual, societal or political.

  http://www.queerzagreb.org/

  
  

   
• Balkan Film Bazaar Verein SOHO IN OTTAKRING Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia
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  Balkan Film Bazaar

  Organisation: Verein SOHO IN OTTAKRING Countries: Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia

  Accompanied by the photo exhibition Balkan Crossroads, this event presented short film productions from authors based in different Balkan countries to a broad Viennese audience. It was part of the well-known art festival Soho in Ottakring in 2010.

  http://www.sohoinottakring.at/blog/

  
  

   
• Extravagant Bodies – Extravagant Minds KONTEJNER Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia
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  Extravagant Bodies – Extravagant Minds

  Organisation: KONTEJNER Countries: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia

  This collaborative and interdisciplinary project aimed at the artistic questioning of the social norms defining “ability” and “disability”, in relation to the complex field of mental health, thus with a focus on mental disorders and intellectual disabilities. The events took place in several cities in South Eastern Europe in 2010 and 2011.

  http://www.kontejner.org/extravagant-minds-2010-english

  
  

   
• Subversive Film Festival 2010 Bijeli Val Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia
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  Subversive Film Festival 2010

  Organisation: Bijeli Val Countries: Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia

   The conference within the Subversive Film Festival dealt with the meaning of Socialism, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the 65th anniversary of the victory over Fascism, hosting prominent participants such as Slavoj Zizek etc. It took place from 1 to 25 May in Zagreb.

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• Festival KROKODIL 2010 Udruzenje KROKODIL Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia
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  Festival KROKODIL 2010

  Organisation: Udruzenje KROKODIL Countries: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

  KROKODIL was a three day regional literary festival and panel discussion in which around 15 relevant authors from ex-Yugoslav countries took part. Twenty years after the beginning of the wars in former Yugoslavia the primary role of the festival was to initiate intensive dialogue to confront the past, the present and the future of the region.

  
  

   
• KROKODIL – Festival of Contemporary Regional Literature Fond B92 Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia
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  KROKODIL – Festival of Contemporary Regional Literature

  Organisation: Fond B92 Countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia

  KROKODIL was organized in the first week of June 2009 by the publishing houses VBZ Beograd and Samizdat B92 in Belgrade. The Literary Festival aimed to present the most relevant authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia, whose books were published by either one of the publishing houses. The goal of the festival was to present a wide range of different authors, starting from successful debutantes, all the way to true regional literary stars.

  
  

   
• The Fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and the Culture of Europe: 1989-2009 University of Surrey Austria, Croatia, Hungary
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  The Fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and the Culture of Europe: 1989-2009

  Organisation: University of Surrey Countries: Austria, Croatia, Hungary

  This interdisciplinary conference commemorated 20 years since the fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ by focusing on its impact on European culture and took place in London in November 2009. In the spotlight of the talks stood the literary representation of the event, especially the reception of previously suppressed texts and narratives about national, individual and European forms of ‘new’ identities.

  http://www.acflondon.org/lectures-talks-symposia/fall-iron-curtain/

  
  

   
• 5th MSE Meeting, “Network Practice” Jana-Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (the Czech Republic) Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Albania
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  5th MSE Meeting, “Network Practice”

  Organisation: Jana-Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (the Czech Republic) Countries: Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Albania

  Twice a year Middle-South-East (MSE) meetings gather together leaders of art initiatives and institutions, curators from different countries, etc. with a focus on the Central and South Eastern European region to exchange knowledge, information and experiences and to discuss a specific topic. The 5th MSE meeting takes place in November 2008 in Ústí nad Labem (the Czech Republic) and focus on the idea of networking itself by discussing and comparing different conceptions of existing networks and the role they can play in developing projects among the participants in such networks. Therefore a number of representatives from other comparable networks, leaders of institutions and curators who work with ideas and structures triggered by networking are invited to join the meeting.