The Delegation of the European Union to Moldova on December 10 launched the European Union - Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Program. The program addresses the stages of project management, cultural leadership, communication abilities and cultural journalism and covers statistical and cultural studies and advocacy activities, IPN reports.
“We will pay attention to the cultural policy reform and will stage a series of workshops in Moldova. There will be promoted cultural leadership. We will also organize seminars. A fact-finding visit will be paid to Poland within the program,” said the program’s director Tom Williams.
Attending the event, the EU Ambassador to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola said the cultural and creative industries play an increasingly important role. In such countries as Moldova, these industries deserve to occupy a central place.
According to acting minister of culture Monica Babuc, the project is designed to develop the institutional capacities and performance of the actors from the field of culture. “Besides the talent they have, they need to adjust themselves to the European realities, to know the economy in culture, to deal with marketing in culture, to know to do cost-efficiency calculations and to know to become involved in this international European cultural movement so as to be first of all competitive,” she stated.
Initiated in February 2015, the three-year European Union - Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Program aims to support the cultural and creative industries in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The budget of the program is €4.29 million.
