Monthly Archives: November 2018

Desk at the First National Fundraising Congress “OPENS FundCon”

29/11/2018

European Youth Capital 2019 and the Umbrella Youth Organisation of Serbia are organising the first national fundraising congress “OPENS FundCon” on Saturday 15th December in Novi Sad.

Representatives of youth organisations, youth offices, institutions dealing with youth and individuals dealing with fundraising wanting to obtain knowledge, ideas and contacts, and also hear more about different support programmes are welcome to apply for participation.

Congress partners are UNICEF, Tempus Foundation, UNDP, Creative Europe Desk Serbia, Regional Youth Cooperation Office of the Western Balkans – RYCO, Civil Society Cooperation Office (Europe for Citizens), Youth Office Novi Sad, Catalyst Balkans, Timok Youth Centre – Prostor za Pomak, Olof Palme International Center, Homepage, Color Press Group, Erste Bank, Petroleum Industry of Serbia, Univerexport.

More information on the congress, agenda and how to apply can be found on the website of the European Youth Capital NS 2019. Application deadline is 10th December 2018. Travel expenses for congress participants will be covered if necessary.

“OPENS FundCon” congress is organised with the support of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the Civil Society Cooperation Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

For additional questions you can send an email to: program@opens2019.rs


Desk at Showcase 2018 Conference in Georgia

27/11/2018

The conference “Creative Europe Showcase 2018“will be organised by the Creative Europe Desk Georgia from 10th to 12th December in Tbilisi.

The conference will gather experts in the field of culture coming from different parts of Europe, some of which will be Mieke Renders from the European network Trans Europe Halles, Ganna Turlo from the Creative Europe Desk Ukraine, Natia Kalandarishvili from the Architecture Biennial Tbilisi, Lana Karaia, representative of the project Be Museumer, Keti Danelia from the SOFA School of Film Agents, but also numerous representatives of successful projects within the Creative Europe programme.

Attendees will debate the past results of project participation, but also opportunities to improve cooperation throughout Europe. Dimitrije Tadić, the Head of the Creative Europe Desk Serbia, will present the experiences from the participation of Serbia in the Creative Europe programme, and also the basic potentials of the domestic art scene with the aim of establishing partnerships in the future.

Through this, Creative Europe Desk Serbia is continuing the successful cooperation with Desks from other European countries, and especially the ones which recently joined the programme. Georgia is one of the neighbouring countries which joined the Creative Europe programme in 2017. In the first year already, partnerships with two European projects the participants of which include organisations from Georgia and Serbia were established.


Public Consultations – Last Check of Competition Applications

26/11/2018

In cooperation with the EU Info Centre, Creative Europe Desk Serbia is organising public consultations about applying to the call for European cooperation projects 2019 of the Creative Europe programme on Monday 4th December at 2.30 p.m. in the EU Info Centre (7 Kralja Milana St, Belgrade).

The call is for all cultural institutions and organisations preparing applications for the current competition call, as leaders or partners in European cooperation projects. The programme of the event is comprised of a series of public consultations related to the questions about competition procedure (creating PIC number, ECAS account, and electronic form), documents (primarily, the content of responses in the competition form and the detailed description of the project), financial and legal matters (budget plan, authorisation letter, declaration on honour and cooperation agreement), using the examples of projects presented by attendees.

We invite all cultural institutions and organisations intending to apply this year to apply with projects propositions where they will participate either as a leader or as a partner organisation. The event is also open for all interested cultural professionals wanting to inform and train themselves in applying for the Creative Europe programme.

The programme of the event will be moderated by representatives of Creative Europe Desk Serbia: Dimitrije Tadić, Head of the Desk, Nina Mihaljinac and Milan Đorđević, Project Managers.

We are kindly asking anyone interested to confirm their participation until 2nd December at midday by sending an application (name, institution/organisation name and contact details) to the address kreativnaevropa@gmail.com.

See you at the EU Info Centre!


Desk at the 4th KreNI Conference in Niš

19/11/2018

KreNI conference of creative industries is a five-day conference taking place for the fourth time in Niš, from 29th November until 3rd December 2018 in the Officer’s Home. The topic of this year’s conference is “Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage”, and participants of the conference, in cooperation with the best international and domestic experts, will develop ideas concerning preservation of cultural heritage of Niš through utilisation of creative industries.

Some of the lecturers of #KreNI4 conference will be Adam Frampton, an architect from New York and a professor at the Columbia University, Francesco Rotondo, professor from the University of Bari, Magdaléna Lataillade, Manager in the cultural sector of the City of Arles and Project Manager of Museomix, Daniel Bernhardt, Director of multimedia studio “Grimmbabies Filmproduktion” in Austria and Ivan Bjelajac, the President of Serbian Blockchain Initiative, Predrag Babović, a digital marketing expert of Erste bank and Dimitrije Tadić, Head of Creative Europe Desk Serbia.

The host country of #KreNI4 is Austria and during the conference successful examples of cultural heritage digitalisation in Austria will be presented in the Austrian corner.

KreNI conference is organised by Young Ambassadors with the support of the Embassy of Austria and the Austrian Cultural Forum, the City of Niš, USA Embassy in Serbia, Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia, EU Info Corner, Erste bank, Embassy of France and French Institute in Niš, and Italian Institute for Culture in Belgrade.

KreNI conference is a part of the programme of marking the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

More information about the conference, lecturers, mentors and the accompanying programme can be found on the website of the conference.


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Desk at the International Book Fair in Belgrade

17/11/2018

Within the 63rd International Book Fair in Belgrade, on Monday 22nd October at 6:00 p.m. in the Ivo Andrić Hall, Culture Desk Serbia will organise a programme of presenting success stories from the competition for translation of literary works, and also the latest publications of the Desk.

The programme consists of two parts:

I Presentation of the competition for translation of literary works and success stories

Marie Pierre Renson, EACEA, European Commission

Publishing House Heliks

Kontrast Publishing

Publishing House Sezam Book

II Presentation of the publication (Re)positioning the Region of Southeast Europe through Culture

Anica Tucakov, researcher, Annonymous: said

Dimitrije Tadić, Head of the Creative Europe Desk Serbia

Publication (Re)positioning the Region of Southeast Europe through Culture is a result of the research conducted by the Creative Europe Desk Serbia which had the topic of mapping regional cultural cooperation. The research was conducted in order to define recommendations for the development of the region of Southeast Europe through culture. The presence of artists from the region in relevant international manifestations, the most important projects and initiatives from the domain of regional cooperation, strategic documents and legal frameworks of regional cooperation, but also the content of promotional tourism campaigns were analysed. The results of the research indicate the state regional cooperation is in, and also representative successful and problematic spots in current practices.

Join us in discussion and get your own copy of the book!


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Cooperation between Desks of Macedonia and Serbia

16/11/2018

Creative Europe Desk Macedonia is organising a two-day event dedicated to promotion of European cooperation projects on Monday 20th November at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, and on Tuesday 21st November as a part of the European Festival of Literature the panel Literary translation and EUPL will take place.

During the event, Dimitrije Tadić, the Head of the Creative Europe Desk Serbia will present experiences from participation of Serbia in the Creative Europe programme, opportunities to establish cooperation and development of joint projects.

The joint events of Creative Europe Desks of Serbia and Macedonia are realised with the idea of improving cooperation between cultural institutions and organisations in both countries with the aim of encouraging young actors to work together and develop European cooperation projects.

Event location: Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Session 1:

12.00 Introduction – Presentation of Creative Europe sub-programme Culture – European cooperation projects 2019
Biljana Prentoska, Creative Europe Desk Macedonia

12.30 Experience of Serbia with the sub-programme Culture (examples of good practices)
Dimitrije Tadić, Creative Europe Desk Serbia

13.00 Brunch

Session 2:

13.30 Workshop: How to successfully prepare a project application?
(advice and the e-form)
Dimitrije Tadić, Creative Europe Desk Serbia
Biljana Prentoska, Creative Europe Desk Macedonia

14.30 Questions and answers

15.00 Individual consulting meetings with speakers


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Info Day in Contemporary Art Gallery Subotica

16/11/2018

As the public call for projects within European Cooperation projects of Creative Europe is now open, the Antenna of the Culture Creative Europe Desk Serbia is organising an info day in Subotica on 19th November starting at 11 a.m. The Info day will take place in the premises of Contemporary Art Gallery in Subotica.

During the Info day, the Antenna will present priorities and aims of the programme, general characteristics and mandatory conditions in applying, the importance of this programme for cultural institutions and organisation from Serbia and specific possibilities when it comes to internationalisation of cultural activities and projects from Serbia. The Info day is intended for all representatives of cultural institutions and organisations from Subotica and the surrounding places public institutions of culture, civil society organisations dealing with culture, educational, scientific and research institutions, and also independent artists, curators and cultural managers.

We invite you to attend and participate in the discussion in order to find out more about funding possibilities for cultural projects.

Info days are promotional events of Culture Creative Europe Desk Antenna where activities of the Antenna, Creative Europe programme and current competitions are presented.


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Info Day in Mokrin

16/11/2018

As the public call for projects within European Cooperation projects of Creative Europe is now open, the Antenna of the Culture Creative Europe Desk is organising an info day in Mokrin on 3rd December starting at 11 a.m. The info day will take place in the premises of Mokrin House.

Info days are promotional events of Culture Creative Europe Desk Antenna where activities of the Antenna, Creative Europe programme and current competitions are presented.

During the Info day, the Antenna will present priorities and aims of the programme, general characteristics and mandatory conditions in applying, the importance of this programme for cultural institutions and organisation from Serbia and specific possibilities when it comes to internationalisation of cultural activities and projects from Serbia. The Info day is intended for all representatives of cultural institutions and organisations from Kikinda and the surrounding places – public institutions of culture, civil society organisations dealing with culture, educational, scientific and research institutions, and also independent artists, curators and cultural managers.

We invite you to attend and participate in the discussion in order to find out more about funding possibilities for cultural projects.


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European Projects ̶ from Idea to Realisation

06/11/2018

The Office for Cooperation with Civil Society RS and Creative Europe Desk Serbia in cooperation with the Association of Visual Artists Užice are organising an event entitled “European Projects – from Idea to Realisation” on Friday 23rd November at 12 p.m. in the Gallery Reflektor in Užice.

The event is an opportunity to discuss potentials of project ideas coming from institutions and organisations from Užice and the surrounding area to achieve international connectivity and cooperation through European programmes Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens. We are inviting you to apply to participate with project ideas you would like to realise and projects you are already implementing.

We are expecting representatives of civil society organisations, libraries, theatres, publishing houses, galleries, museums, local self-governments, archives and institutes from Užice, Požega, Bajina Bašta, Čačak, Novi Pazar, Prijepolje, Gornji Milanovac, Ivanjica and other interested parties.

The event is open for anyone interested and if you want to participate in the discussions, please fill in the application and send it to the email address: kreativnaevropa@kultura.gov.rs at latest by 16th November at midday.

Event programme:

12.00 – 12.30 Presentation of the Europe for Citizens programme
Sanja Atanasković Opačić, Office for Cooperation with Civil Society of the Government of RS

12.30 – 13.00 Presentation of the Creative Europe programme,
Nina Mihaljinac and Milan Đorđević, Creative Europe Desk Serbia

13.00 – 14.30 Individual discussions about project ideas

The aim of the Europe for Citizens programme is to promote European identity and European citizenship, and also to strengthen the participation of citizens in all forms of community life. General aims of the programme contribute to better understanding of the European Union, its values, history and diversity, promotion of European citizenship and improvement of civil and democratic participation on the European level. The national contact point for the programme is the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society of the Republic of Serbia promoting the programme, organising info sessions, workshops and conferences. The Office also offers support to anyone interested in preparing a project application and help in finding partners in other countries participating in the programme.

Creative Europe programme is the main programme of the European Union for culture and support to cooperation projects of cultural institutions and organisations from different European countries. The programme also supports initiatives to translate and promote literary work of European authors in European Union and beyond, establish networks enabling competitivity and international activity of cultural and creative sectors, and also establishing platforms for promotion of young talents, their work and projects. Creative Europe Desk Serbia is the implementing body of the Creative Europe programme, established as a part of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia. The aim of the Desk is to offer support to cultural institutions and civil society organisations in the Republic of Serbia intending to secure participation in the Creative Europe programme.


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Desk at “art+science:makers” Conference

06/11/2018

On the occasion of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab project start, the Centre for the Promotion of Science is organising the “art+science:makers” conference in Belgrade, on 14th November at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (20 Bulevar umetnosti St).

More than twenty artists, scientists, makers and representatives of reputable organisations and institutions, such as Ars Electronica from Linz, universities in Vienna, Barcelona, Brussels and Bristol, and the most important domestic actors will present new insights and inspirational examples of inter-disciplinary cooperation between science and art. The very nature and various models of art+science collaboration, the question of audience development and blurring the border between disciplines, and also integration of innovative and creative practices in formal education processes will be considered under the umbrella of makers culture.

Within the opportunity making programme of the conference, Creative Europe Desk Serbia will present opportunities offered by the Creative Europe programme for the development of art&science projects.

Participation in the conference is free and it will be enabled only based on applications and a returned confirmation. More information on the conference and the way of applying can be found here.


Artistic Initiatives

Art Biennial in Pančevo

02/11/2018

Exactly thirty-seven years ago the organising of Art Biennial was started under the name Pančevačko Exhibition of Yugoslavian Sculpture. Several years earlier (1976), the organiser of Art Biennial, Cultural Centre of Pančevo, established the Gallery of Contemporary Art, which was located, all the way to 2011, in the premises of the Military Headquarters building, on King Petar the First Square. The exclusive gallery space suited the intention of founders of Biennial to organise big exhibitions and complex events of Yugoslavian character. During those years sculpture, as an art discipline was strictly determined in relation to other artistic disciplines. The beginning of this manifestation looked like this, while today it adopted numerous changes of the concept and the form. Geopolitical changes in Yugoslavian federation, changes in the development of contemporary art, and strong influence of modern technologies had an impact on Art Biennial as well.

The observation of several decades long success and importance, closely following the Biennial, a large archive was preserved including: documents, photographs, audio-visual material – rich archive material, and a solid collection of art works, today kept partly in the depo of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, on a new address, and partly, unfortunately, in an inadequate space that was offered as a temporary solution due to the lack of space in the Gallery. Over the decades of its existence Art Biennial has been successfully establishing clear articulation between contemporary art tendencies, audience and expert public. National, but also international importance of this manifestation, representing a contact with contemporary expression, was very well documented and archived, and available to researchers, thus being a significant part of contemporary art scientific material during the past three decades.
Visual identity of the history of Art Biennial was presented as a part of the Creative Europe Forum 2018 in the premises of the Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade. This will enable a visual overview of the Biennial to artists, but also admirers of contemporary art coming from abroad who didn’t have the chance to see this manifestation, and it will offer them an opportunity to follow the historical evolution of Biennial in fragments.


Artistic Initiatives

Vitesse

02/11/2018

Vitesse is a musical duo from Brussels, part of Boutique Electronique, Plein Sud and Crevette Records. Polé and Guillaume have been working together since high school. Their cooperation started with playing records and DJ-ing in a youth club, bars, and small clubs where the shared interest in the music industry was developed and they started organising parties. They published the first EP videos in 2017 labeled under Crevette Records, and a few months later they received a phone call from the Red Bull Elektropedia to let them know they received the award for the most reliable artistic duo together with Témé Tan and Blackwave.

You can find out more about them here or on their YouTube channel.


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Young Writers from the Region

02/11/2018

We presented young writers from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia during the Creative Europe Forum 2018.
Edin Bajramović (Zenica, 1986), a writer. After quitting mechanical engineering studies, he enrolled to the departments of Comparative Literature and Literature of the People of BiH at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He received the first short story award of the magazine “Oslobođenje” in 2015 for his first published story “Miš”. He won the same award in 2016 as well for the story “Pismo iz Slobode”. For his story “Jutro kada su nestale lubenice” he was awarded by magazine “Oslobođenje” the second award for short story in 2017. He lives and works in Zenica, where he is currently completing three novels (“Kaputt”, “Crno ogledalo” and “Gradnja i rušenje”) while also creating his first collection of stories (“Hypermetamorfosis”).

Luiza Bouharaoua, born in Split in 1985. She graduated from the departments of Croatian Language and Literature and English Language and Literature. She is writer and a translator. She translated Rachel Kushner’s novel The Flamethrowers to Croatian (“Bacači plamena” (Profil, 2017). She published short stories in The Split Mind, Fantom Slobode and portals Kritična masa and Nema. Her stories were also broadcast on Channel 3 of Croatian radio. She was enlisted in the regional collection of papers “Izvan koridora – najbolja kratka prica” (VBZ, 2011.) and in the anthology recent Croatian fiction “Bez vrata, bez kucanja” (Sandorf, 2012). She was a finalist of the Festival of European Short Story competition in 2016 and 2017. She also won the award Ulaznica for a short story and the award Prozak for the best fiction text of authors under 35.

Slađana Kavarić was born on 15th February 1991 in Podgorica. She writes poetry and short stories. She published poetry collections “Sjećanje” (2010) and “Ljudi niotkuda” (Žuta kornjača, 2016). Kavarić’s creativity was translated into English. Her story “Odlazak” was published in the prestigious American literary magazine World Literature Today, and her poems were translated for the British magazine Balkan Poetry Today. She is a doctoral student of philosophy and the focus of her interest is primarily praxis philosophy.

Marija Pavlović (1984, Leskovac, lives and works in Belgrade) holds an MA in English Language and Literature, she is writer employed as a Senior Copywriter & Digital Strategist. As the winner of the Award on the competition “Prva knjiga” of Matica srpska she published her first book, Horor priče svakodnevice (Matica srpska, 2014). She is a short story author (Američki san, Diskopolis, Disco inferno, Sve je u redu), author of the audio-visual performance Čudni slučaj Gospođe Džekil i Doktorke Hajd (UK Parobrod, Beograd), and a songs (Imperativi). Roman 24 (Partizanska knjiga, 2018) is her second recently published book. She participated in regional festivals and initiatives such as the short story festival Kikinda Short, UN project Writers for the Future realised in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the festival Literatorija in Montenegro.


Artistic Initiatives

Jovana Sudimac/ Love

02/11/2018

I use every space available for promotion: the Internet, the street, my room, my house, gallery spaces etc., to promote the company Nike. I try to wear at least one piece of clothing branded as the company, bought or made, authentic or not every day. Results of this act are similar to an advertisement but they are also different because they don’t follow the demands of the market and political correctness, but instead they are created by free choice based on personal affinities. This is how a meeting point of different social groups linked by common interest in Nike products and identities was created through four years long collecting of various content related to this company. The entire process is recorded on my Instagram account.


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Desk at the Regional Innovation Forum UNLIMITED 2018

01/11/2018

During the panel discussion “EU Funds foster innovation? Tell me more!”, on Monday 5th November at the Kino Meeting Point in Sarajevo, Branko Vučijak, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering BiH, Elona Goma, Albanian Investment Development Agency (AIDA) Albania, Darko Ivanović, Civic Alliance Montenegro and Dimitrije Tadić, Head of Creative Europe Desk Serbia will speak about securing funds that can be used to build and create innovation.

The panel will be focussed on national and regional stories about best practices coming directly from users and contractors who are either currently implementing or intend to implement EU projects in the future. A special emphasis will be on cross-sectoral cooperation, community development and youth entrepreneurship. The panel is laid out in the form of panel stories which will emphasise lesser-known stories from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. Participants will be encouraged to tell their own success stories and practical information about the application process with a focus on EU funds promoting innovation.

The moderator of the discussion is Mirela Rajković, SEEYN from Montenegro.

You can find out more about the event here.


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BiH and Serbia – Establishing Cooperation Through Creative Europe Programme

01/11/2018

A workshop entitled “Preparation of Applications for Cooperation Projects 2019” is taking place on Monday, 5th November in Sarajevo, organised by Creative Europe Desk Bosnia and Herzegovina. The occasion for the event is the recently opened competition for European cooperation projects, inviting all representatives of institutions, organisations and companies in the field of culture from Bosnia and Herzegovina intending to apply.

Within the programme of the workshop, Dimitrije Tadić, the Head of Creative Europe Desk Serbia will present opportunities to establish cooperation with Serbian organisations within projects of European cooperation, previous results of participation of Serbia in the Creative Europe programme and support instruments implemented by Creative Europe Desk Serbia.

Workshop programme:

14:00-14:10 – Opening speech, Biljana Čamur- Veselinović, Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH

14:10-14:30 – Projects of European cooperation – general information, thematic priorities, directions for filling the electronic form, help in searching for partners – Aida Kalender, the Head of the Creative Europe Desk BiH

14:30-15:00 – Examples of positive practices: projects awarded in Creative Europe competitions in Serbia. Active search for partners in the Creative Europe competition in Serbia – Dimitrije Tadić, Advisor at the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia and the Head of the Creative Europe Desk Serbia

15:00-16:00 – Practical advice for applicants on the competition for projects of cultural cooperation for 2019 – questions and discussion

Participants:

Nihad Kreševljaković, Director of JU Theatre Festival MESS, an institution awarded on this competition in 2018
Dimitrije Tadić, Head of Creative Europe Desk Serbia
Aida Kalender, Head of Creative Europe Desk BiH
The workshop is realised in cooperation with the EU Info Centre and the Creative Europe Desk Bosnia and Herzegovina, with support of the European Commission and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH. Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to the email address: aida.kalender@kreativnaevropa.ba at latest by Friday, 2nd November 2018 at 5 p.m.


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