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Description
The main focus of the “Mobile Creative Network For Culture and Arts” project under Outcome 2 “Access to Arts and Culture Improved” under the “Cultural Entrepreneurship, Heritage and Cooperation” Programme of the FM of EEA 2014-2021 is to create an effective and sustainable platform for encouragement of the diversity in the area of culture and arts through the ensuring of wide community access to cultural content and forms. Through the foreseen complex of synergic activities, the project will provide an opportunity for development and improvement of the capacity of the cultural operators included in it as well as will facilitate the strengthening of the bilateral relations and cultural diversity through the planned events for audiences and target groups under the project. The complex of the project activities is directed towards: development and attraction of new audiences of culture in the peripheral urban zones and smaller localities in the country; encouragement of balanced territorial development in terms of culture and stimulation of the entrepreneurship including through the encouragement of the bilateral relations in the Donor States under the Programme and the transfer of best practices and know-how. The main project activities will be realized in 4peripheral districts in the city of Plovdiv–“Komatevo” neighborhood, “Stolipinovo” neighborhood, District “Zapaden”,District “Trakia” as well as in 4 smaller localities situated in different administrative areas in the country–Asenovgrad, Batak, Koprivshtitsa and Nova Zagora. Through the realization of the current project, funded under the FM of EEA,the “Incubator Creative Complex” Association will receive an opportunity to continue the successful efforts in the area of provision of cultural activities and formats for different target groups and audiences enhancing the scope – content wise and geographically of its activity and will reach and develop new audiences on the territory of Bulgaria and the Donor States.
Summary of project results
The main goal of the project was to create an effective and sustainable platform for encouragement of the diversity in culture and arts by ensuring wide community access to cultural forms and content. It needed to provide a complex of synergic activities and create an opportunity for development and improvement of the capacity of the cultural operators involved, as well as facilitate the strengthening of the bilateral relations and cultural diversity. The activities had to attract new audiences in the peripheral urban areas and smaller localities in Bulgaria, to encourage balanced territorial development in terms of culture and promotion of entrepreneurship by encompassing four peripheral districts in the city of Plovdiv – the “Komatevo” neighborhood, the “Stolipinovo” neighborhood, District “Zapaden” and District “Trakia”, as well as 4 smaller localities situated in different administrative areas in the country – the towns of Asenovgrad, Batak, Koprivshtitsa and Nova Zagora.
Within the project, four two-day events under the title "Mobile creative network" were held at the local level in the city of Plovdiv, as well as four two-day events at the regional level in the cities of Asenovgrad, Batak, Nova Zagora and Koprivshtitsa to improve access to arts and culture. The project provided opportunities to amateur artists to be actively involved in the creative initiatives of the "Mobile Creative Network". Cultural areas peripheral to the city center were created within the city of Plovdiv and awareness was improved and access to arts and culture for a wide audience was ensured, incl. of ethnic and minority groups (including those of Roma origin). The project built a sustainable partnership network of cultural figures and young artists.
The project implemented trainings to increase the capacity of the project promoter''s expert staff and improved its expertise. One of the goals of the project, which was successfully achieved, was to give an opportunity to amateurs and non-professional artists to perform by involving them directly in the creative initiatives. The access to art and culture of the citizens and guests of the city of Plovdiv was improved as events were held in the outskirts of the urban centers.
Summary of bilateral results
The partner of this project was Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network based in Kristiansand, Norway. At the final stage of the projects there was a dispute between the partners due to a delayed payment, but it was resolved.