Participatory practices and initiatives designed to protect the environment and to conserve the natural and historical heritage take place within the CIVIC FEST 2015 in Butuceni, Orheiul Vechi, on September 26. The NGO Fair staged within this event informs the participants about the successful local and national projects and the experience of social entrepreneurs. The event involves representatives of civil society, state institutions, central public authorities and of the business sector, IPN reports.

CIVIC FEST 2015 aims to promote ecological culture within communities. According to the organizers, Butuceni was chosen not accidentally because this village represents a visiting card of the country and a model that encourages the more active participation of people in community development. A number of civic initiatives designed to protect the environment, promote ecological culture and conserve the natural and historical heritage will be launched here.

CIVIC FEST promotes the most successful projects implemented by civil society organizations from Moldova and the EU, which obtained international recognition and can serve as useful practices in such areas as social entrepreneurship and social integration, comunity development by civic initiatives, sociocultural transformations and social responsibility.

The festival is an integral part of the Civil Society Days that are organized in partnership with FHI 360/Moldova Partnerships for Sustainable Civil Society. The event is staged by the public association "Synergetica Eur/Est” with support from the East-Europe Foundation with the resources provided by the Government of Sweden and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.