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“The innovative approach of the project consists in managing the cultural knowledge and personal stories of users by means of public libraries. Suggesting a shift from the traditional library as supplier of materials to the modern library, as facilitator for the creation of material by the users, the project offers an original interpretation to the idea of digital story and a creative rethinking of the role of libraries in the community, in terms of intervention in the cultural diversity field.

“The cultural project Theatre Dialog Box started as a response to the desire to improve access to culture and to increase cultural consumption among young people, promoting tradition, multiculturalism and equality. The biggest problem that we have identified concerns the limits of the school curriculum in facilitating the dialogue between students and the Romanian culture or cultures of other societies.

“The project has managed to reach its objective, that is to encourage the minorities of the Bucovina region to rediscover and preserve their cultural identity. Therefore, by bringing together minorities, the project successfully contributed to the welding of the relations between minorities and to establishing new cultural collaboration opportunities. Moreover, children were encouraged to proudly wear their folk garments and sing specific repertoire while parents understood to support them into preserving the cultural heritage”.

“The handbook starts from the necessity of an intercultural education policy amongst the youth as catalyzer of the dialogue between diverse cultures. (…) intercultural education, designed for promoting the idea of coexistence with the others, is attainable when constantly relating it, on the one hand, to understanding of ethnic and linguistic self-identification, and on the other hand, to the idea of accepting the relation between education and ethnic identity (…) That is why a youth integration programme is challenge in our society”.

“Historical re-enactment is designed as a new instrument to understand and value culture, as well as to contribute to the durable development of the local community. The project develops a new cultural product, the living history, by means of an educational method that is both original and facilitating the understanding of community life within the 13th – 17th historical period.”

“The Art in diversity magazine aims at fostering the interest of the public towards the art of minorities and their forms of cultural expression. Moreover, the magazine will comprise, in a most captivating manner, the cultural events of the Bucharest minorities with the purpose of promoting them to the general public, thus contributing to the consolidation of the minority rights to promote their own culture”.

“Stories incubator is set for promoting reading among the young, as one of the most beneficial and complex action that can happen to human mind. High school students will be encouraged to earn and treasure the habit of reading, and most importantly, to help those with artistic potential to write”.

“The project aims at offering those interested in traditional arts and crafts activities that are especially designed to facilitate an experience marked by unity in diversity. By selecting the most valuable and representative craftsmen we bring to the public true models for stir the interest for traditional arts and cultural diversity”.

"Dobrudjan Diversity towards European Community has fostered and consolidated the understanding of the Dobrudjan cultural diversity, contributing to the enlargement of the cultural audience and the education of the majority population regarding ethnic minorities”.

The Project Management Unit from the Ministry of Culture, acting as Programme Operator for PA17/RO13 Promotion of diversity in culture and arts within European cultural heritage, announces the depletion of the available funds within the Fund for Bilateral Relations – Measure B, round 2.