Description
The project addresses the need for greater online visibility for culture and art-related NGOs in Varna District. The project aims at ensuring greater visibility of and among NGOs and facilitating communication between the stakeholders via an online platform. First, the challenges facing culture-related NGOs will be analyzed; the existing online platforms will be reviewed and solutions for a sustainable network of cultural organizations will be looked for. Second, 6 volunteers will be attracted, trained and used to attract other NGOs for the platform. Third, the Cultural Cooperative platform will be developed. Fourth, NGOs will be trained to use green cultural management policies. Finally, the platform will be launched and new NGOs will be invited to join. The project will benefit art and culture-related NGOs, other cultural activists, volunteers and the local community in general.
Summary of project results
The platform was created to include 4 functional main menus: catalogue (database for NGOs, artists, institutions and others); cultural calendar (for all types of art and cultural events); adverts (about 4 types of resources: human, spatial, logistic and financial), and rubrics (about 4 topics: green cultural policy, legal, accounting and financial consultations). After making a registration each user can post adverts and events for free and also can search for partners for current activities. The outputs of the project are in two directions: 1) Cultural cooperative is the first online platform in the Bulgarian context that offers to the NGOs in the field of art and culture, cultural operators and independent artists to share resources between each other. 2) The first training on green cultural policy has happened within the project. Its target groups were again NGOs in the field of art and culture, cultural operators and independent artists. The beneficiaries who represented the leading organisation of the project were involved in all activities of the project, except the development of the platform itself (programming and graphic design). The beneficiaries as potential users of the platform are involved through their activities using their profiles and publishing events and adverts. They have the opportunity to share and exchange the 4 main types of resources and to build new partnerships. That has happened already during the live open meetings in the 6 cities in Bulgaria, so it can continue online. The third group of beneficiaries were the volunteers. They had the chance to improve their skills working on a project in an NGO and to pass through a researching process to create database in the field of art and culture in the Bulgarian context.
Summary of bilateral results