https://www.kongres.lublin.eu/en/
Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress creates a meeting place for hundreds of practitioners of development and cross-border cooperation. It constitutes a dialogue platform for academia, cultural circles, central and local authorities, creators and decision-makers from this part of Europe. This kind of platform aims to foster implementation of partner projects from available external funding sources.
For the first time, the Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress was organized in 2012. It provided an extended approach to the idea of previous year's Eastern Partnership Culture Congress. At that time artists, cultural managers and animators, representatives of ministries, local governments, NGOs, academia and the media for EaP states, the EU, as well as Russia and other European countries produced recommendations regarding cultural cooperation between the EaP and the EU. The prominent task for the Congress became to establish a Cultural Cooperation Network for the Eastern Partnership.
The Congress is organized within the activities of the Centre for Eastern Competences (CEC), which is a programme implemented by the City of Lublin and the Government of Lubelskie Voivodeship. CEC aims at networking and initiating new undertakings, as well as co-creating the new quality in a broadly defined development cooperation.
Last editions
Last year's 6th edition of the Congress was opened with a significant event - the Council of Europe granted the city of Lublin the Europe Prize award. The city has been appreciated for its active promotion of European values and ideas through, inter alia, organization of interesting cultural and civil events of European coverage. Moreover, the 6th Congress has been one of the elements of the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of granting Lublin its city rights.
2018 thematic lines
- Regional partnerships
- Local democracy
- Business and innovation
- Mobility
- Equality
- Heritage and reconciliation
Contact:
Krzysztof Łątka, Director of The Non-Investment Projects Department, Lublin City Office
tel. 81 466 2850
e-mail: kongres@lublin.eu
For the full programme go here.