Platform "Culture 2013" (2008 - 2009)

Strengthening and development of cultural policies to be correlated to the European accession process and the achievement of Kosovo’s full participation in Culture Programme 2007 – 2013 DGEC (EU Directorate General for Education and Culture).

A coalition of NGO’s, a partnership between ODA, Academic Training and Technical Assistance – ATTA and NGO “EC (Civil Emancipation) me Ndryshe” – a coalition of organizations in a close partnership with the Office for European Integration of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, will be carrying out the project structured in the way to create, stimulate and promote high quality, reality-based cultural policies and strategies for implementation and in this way help the government, respectively the Ministry of Culture for implementing actions that will lead towards the preparation of Kosovan Cultural sector for its integration in the big European Cultural Family.

A year round activity of the coalition in the “Culture 2013” platform will be assembled, debated, promoted and published in the Yearly conference of “Culture 2013”. The idea of the platform is to gather inputs, experiences and energies from the whole sector, closely coordinate and co-manage with the Office of the European Integrations of MCYC efforts to create a more favourable environment for the sectors development and in this way prepare this important sector for the EU accession process.