Description
Creation of united society at the level of interethnic NGOs and at the level of ethnic minority families using intercultural dialogue promotion measures, improvement of knowledge of the official language, thus promoting understanding of Latvian culture and traditions as main tools. The basic activities to motivate noncitizens to integrate into Latvian society and to improve intercultural dialogue will be promoted among target audience – ethnical minorities. Project closing conference – in terms of the festival there will be organized also an exhibition/fair of handicrafts made during the classes of individual entrepreneurship. Implementation of the project in cooperation with the Kraslava Latvian association will contribute to unification of society, improvement of the language skills, understanding of the procedure for gaining citizenship, deepening knowledge of Latvian culture as well as strengthening susceptibility of participants by teaching them new skills.
Summary of project results
The project was aimed at a single society of inter-ethnic non-governmental organizations and ethnic minorities at the family level, as a tool for intercultural dialogue through measures to boost the state language development, promoting understanding of Latvian folk culture and traditions. The Project target group was different population groups, including 160 minorities, 5 non-citizens, 15 children and young people. As well as NVOs representing the above groups of people's rights and interests, including the 19 members, six employees and three volunteers. The following results have been achieved: •A society's website
www.atvertiba.lv; •Developed Society "Family Support Center" Openness" medium - term strategy for 2015. - 2020" available on the Society's website: •Created Inter-ethnic NVO Network; •Organized a round table discussion; • Latvian language training •Arranged Miķeļdienas celebration, 28 participants; •In the interests of organized clubs (Latvian folk traditions, symbolism, Latvian articles viewed, etc); •Organized training initiatives promotion and development; •Organized training for writing projects; •Arranged for day camps (15 children and young people, for 5 days); •Arranged in the project final event: Conference/Festival (142 participants). Mostly people with quite weak Latvian language skills showed interest to participate in the project. The main benefit from the project is improved integration of the society in the remote border area of Latvia and new cooperation model for Latvians and ethnic minorities. In total 180 people took part in the project, aged between 5 and 92 years.
Summary of bilateral results