Monthly Archives: March 2017
Speed dating with representatives of EU funds
Thirty seven youth organisations and organisations for youth from several cities in Serbia, participated in the event “Speed dating: Youth organisations and EU funds” which took place in the EU Info Centre in Belgrade. This “quick meeting” was also attended by representatives of 9 programmes of the European Union present in Serbia, as possible donors. Apart from them, attendees also included representatives of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Umbrella organisation of the youth of Serbia (KOMS) and the EU Info Centre.
Speed dating was organised by the EU Info Centre in cooperation with the Delegation of the EU in Serbia, within their joint campaign for youth under the title of “Europe for you”.
In the greeting speech, the Head of the Sector of Operations of the EU Delegation in Serbia, Steffen Hudolin expressed how content he was because of such a large number of young people who answered the call for participation, whom he invited to get actively included in the reform processes in Serbia supported by the EU.
“We absolutely need you; we need you in Serbia, in the region and in the EU. We need you to participate and to be active and proactive”, he said to representatives of youth organisations. Hudolin encouraged them not to get disappointed and not to give up if it happens that their project is not accepted, but rather to continue participating in everything EU is doing in Serbia.
Representative of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, Marija Petronijević, emphasised that this institution is opening competitions for youth every year and announced that soon a new competition will be open where the Ministry will co-finance the already approved projects.
The Umbrella organisation of youth in Serbia is a partner of the event, and the General Secretary of KOMS, Nina Živanović, emphasised that they are the highest representative body of youth in Serbia, in existence for six years and striving to answer all their needs.
At 11 tables, speed dating participants included representatives of the following funds and programmes of the EU: Erasmus+, Creative Europe (Culture and MEDIA sub-programmes), The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), Civil Society Forum (CSF), COSME (Programme for competitiveness of small and medium enterprises), Horizon 2020, and Europe for Citizens and Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organisations (TACSO).
Representatives of the Creative Europe Desk Serbia shared with the youth organisations the core information about the sub-programme Culture and sub-programme MEDIA: who can apply, which competitions are available, what kind of funding can be achieved and other information. Among the organisations there were those who were introduced for the first time with the Creative Europe programme and those who were familiar with it through events organised by the Desk in the past period.
The 37 present organisations also included those from Prijepolje, Tutin, Niš, Novi Sad, Jagodina, and Smederevo. We are especially content with the large interest by youth organisations and organisations for youth for European cooperations within the Creative Europe programme and even more so due to the fact that there is not enough programmes intended for young people on the European level, and the Creative Europe programme especially encourages this kind of projects and initiatives.
Public call for the workshop of the expert team from France: How to Successfully apply for the Creative Europe programme
Within the third day of the Forum Creative Europe 2017 on 20th April in the building of the Aeroklub (4/2 Uzyn Mirkova St, Belgrade) starting at 11 a.m., a workshop dealing with writing of European cooperation projects will take place, headed by a team of professionals from the field of management in culture from the Masters programme “Management of international cultural projects” – University LUMIÈRE LYON 2 in France: Camille Jutant, Sarah Cordonnier, Selma Laribi, Pierre Brini, Pascal Bonniel Chalier.
The workshop is intended for all interested employees of cultural institutions and organisations preparing projects to apply for the competition for projects of European cooperation.
The main part of the workshop will be dedicated to working on project ideas in groups in relation to the topics of the Creative Europe programme: audience development, mobility, digitalisation and new business models, and also, during the workshop, experiences of the team of French professionals from the project We Are Europe will be presented.
Applications for participating in the workshop are mandatory, and the deadline is 7th of April.
In order to apply to participate in the workshop it is necessary to send an application with basic information about your organisation, names of participants and a description of a project idea with a mandatory indication of which priority of the Creative Europe programme it primarily responds to (audience development, transnational mobility, digitisation and new business models) which you would use to apply for the Creative Europe programme in the next calls. Applications in English or French, with the length of 5000 characters should be sent to the e-mail address kreativna.evropa.radionice@gmail.com.
The number of workshop participants is limited. The working language of the workshop is English. Lunch will be provided for all participants during the break.
You can download biographies of the team leading the workshop here.
Information about whether your application for the workshop is accepted will be forwarded to you by 15th April.
The detailed programme of the Forum Creative Europe 2017 will be available on our website soon.
European platforms – deadline has been extended
Please be informed that Corrigenda to the Call for Proposals European Platforms – Guidelines have been published today. The deadline for submission has been extended to 27 April 2017. The eForm for the 2017 Call and a first set of FAQs are now available.
This measure offers action grants to organizations showcasing and promoting European creators and artists, especially emerging talent, through a genuine Europe-wide programming.
They shall join together within a platform with a view to bringing to the fore their common artistic vision and to helping its members to improve their audience development techniques.
What does it support?
– the mobility of creators and artists
– promotion and showcasing of emerging talent from other European countries
– stimulating a genuine Europe-wide programming of cultural and artistic activities
– contribution to audience development
– providing visibility to Europe’s values and different cultures
The funding available includes support for implementing a communication and branding strategy, including, where appropriate, the development of a European quality label.
The conditions of the competitions but also instructions for applying can be found here.
Creative Europe Desk Serbia can help you to clarify the rules of the competition and answer the questions when prepairing applications. Please contact us to make an appointment.
Sezam Book Publishing House: Scenes from Our Hidden Lives
Grant Awarded: 35,000€
The editorial concept of this project emphasizes intimate, family relationships and stories and it explores how these “hidden lives” shape European societies and politics. The private space of emotions and imagination is put under the public eye of the readership, while the public space, as a backdrop and counterpoint is more contoured and fantasized, providing a metaphoric, critical mirror of today’s Europe’s structure and power relations.
Aspiring to great social changes is visibly absent, while authors focus on self-exploration and immersion into the intimate and imaginative. On the one hand, one can interpret this as a reluctance to tackle complex social, economical and cultural problems of contemporary European societies, and almost as a self-preservation act in the face of great changes Europe is experiencing today. On the other hand, we observe these struggles, shared among the characters of different cultural backgrounds, as an inside-out perspective on the historical, social and political contexts in which they exist.
The added values of this project are dealing with the topic of physical disability through the book Apnea, and the collaboration with the Faculty of Philology to include E. Szvoren’s book of short stories into the study curriculum.
The project includes six books, one book of short stories and five novels, translated into Serbian from Norwegian, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Italian and the French language, out of which five books received the EUPL. Succeeding in the past two literary translation projects co-financed by Culture and Creative Europe programmes, Sezam Book systematically continues to promote and introduce the readers to the contemporary literature of these countries, to promote translators and support the circulation of literature written in less used European languages.
