“CHOICE – Cultural Heritage: Opportunity for Improving Civic Engagement” is kicking-off with a workshop and the project steering committee at ALDA’s office in Vicenza on 2-4 September. The partners – EuroBelarus International Consortium, Centre for Cultural Management from Ukraine, ICOM Moldova National Committee, Millennium Foundation for Education and Research from Armenia, and the Belarussian Public Association Centre for Social Innovations – joined us in our offices to talk about cultural heritage as an opportunity for conscious and engaged citizenry.
The project aim is to enhance the civil society’s role and to build its organisational capacities to develop a heritage-friendly living environment in Belarus, Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine and across the Eastern Neighbourhood in general. The partners will be engaging local CSOs through a subgranting scheme. It will be a great opportunity for the interested organisations to gain new skills and develop new expertise as agents for socio-economic change in their communities. They will also receive a chance to develop their organisational change plan thanks to the assistance of the project country teams.
The project is going to run for almost another two years and it is going to finish off with a regional CSO forum, which is going to gather the cultural heritage professionals from across the Eastern Partnership countries to discuss and approve policy recommendations.
