HomeEUROPEAN PROJECT FAIR
OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF CULTURAL CENTRES (ENCC)
cultural centres between
european integration
and cultural diversity
VIENNA, 3|4|5 NOVEMBER 2006
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European Project Fair brings cultural centres from Eastern and Western Europe together
The European Project Fair of the European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC) band together around 80 participants from 16 countries under the topic “Cultural centres between European integration and cultural diversity”. Around 30 already realised, current or planned projects from cultural centres of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland and Romania were presented and discussed.
The event was organized by the ENCC in collaboration with the German and the Austrian national networks, respectively the „Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentren e.V.“ and „IG Kultur Österreich“. Financial support was given by the European Union, budget line “Support to organisations which promote European culture”, and the commissioner of the German Government for Culture and Media (BKM).
The participants underlined the importance of personal contact and exchange and the ongoing process of networking between cultural workers beyond European boarders. Only by doing this, ideas of joint projects can be developed and realised, and the intercultural dialogue could gain sustainability.
Especially middle and eastern European cultural centres, which were the main target group of the ENCC’s European Project Fair 2006, would like to expand and to strength the potential of ambitious networking for their future activities. They expressed their interest to establish an annual project fair and therefore ENCC has already planned the next one for the beginning of October 2007 in Riga/ Latvia.
Christa Prets, Member of the European Parliament, and Sabine Frank from the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH) emphasized during the panel discussion the importance of intercultural work, which is promoted and recognized by the European Union through the declaration of the year 2008 as the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. They mentioned that especially the cultural centres are qualified locations for the dialogue between people from different backgrounds and nationalities Europe wide.
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