Intercultural exchange publication Subotica

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Call for participation in straw art making

Fifth Festival of Slama art, 17-22 August 2010.

Village of Lug in Baranja county, Croatia

The story of Slama (straw) has from the beginning been a tendency to for “higher grounds”, for the sculptural monumentality. The whole lowland spreading around us in some kind searches for greatness as it silently calls elevation. How else would all those tiny wheat seeds, which sprout so fragilely, grow up so high, like thousands of small cathedrals, like the strong Slavonia oak tree. The human being itself distinguishes oneself by the upright walk; all these big and small constructional miracles of nature keep in their own and fascinating way persisting gravity.

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Calendar of intercultural activities – city of MOSTAR

July

- City of Mostar administration / Municipality -”Mostarski ljetni festival” (“MostarSummer Festival”) – the festival of cultural manifestation including 3 traditional events:

1. Šantićeve večere poezije (“Poetry readings of Šantić”) (Šantić is the famous Mostar poet) 1. i 2. 07.2010. (Muzej Hercegovine and srpsko kulturno drustvo Prosvjeta

2. Anale crteža BiH – (Annual Exhibition of drawings) - Traditional exhibition of drawings, of the competitive character, organized in cooperation with the Cultural Center - Jelka Kebo (08.07.2010.)

3. Blues festival - international blues festival, organized in cooperation with the music Center Pavaroti   (http://mostarblues.com/prva_eng.htm)

8th Mostar Blues Festival -the main performers

July 16th - Deborah Coleman & Band (USA)

July 17th - Zdenka Kovačiček & JJ Band – Tribute to Janis Joplin (CRO)

July 18th - Partibrejkers (rock group from SERBIA)

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The second Project Steering Group meeting was held in Osijek

Participants in the meeting were:

1. City administration of Subotica: Ms. Erika Kudlik, City Councilor for international/regional co-operation, Ms. Melinda Kis Eres, LED Office Project Coordinator; Mr. Aleksandar Lovcanski, Mayor’s Office
2. ALDA: Ms. Stanka Parac, Partnership Support Manager,  Project Manager.
3. Wolverhampton Light House Media Centre: Mr. Frank Challenger, Executive Manager, Ms. Nerina Villa, film production manager
4. LDA Subotica: Ms. Olga Perusic, Delegate, Ms. Marija Jonjev, Financial manager, Mr. Massimo Gobbato, Internee, Milan Bosnjak, Local coordinator;
5. LDA Mostar: Ms. Dzenana Dedic, Delegate, Maja Vejzovic, Local coordinator,
6. LDA Osijek: Mr. Miljenko Turniski, Delegate, Ms. Branka Paskuljevic, Project coordinator, Ms. Kristina Babic, PR communication agency, Osijek; Ms. Tatjana Skrbic, Local project coordinator,

Meeting started with an overview of the activities implemented in Serbia during the first year of the project (training seminar for local authorities and NGO-s on diversity management, round table on ethnic communities and cultural heritage, study visits to Subotica in August 2009., during the harvest days and inter-ethno festival). Specific attention was given to some follow-up exchanges that took place among the participants from Mostar, Subotica and Osijek. Presentation of the activities was prepared by Ms. Stanka Parac, Project manager.

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The Project second Steering Committee meeting

Subotica, 15th March 2010

The Project second Steering Committee meeting will be held in Osijek, Croatia, on Friday 9th April 2010, 
in the premises of the Local Democracy Agency Osijek,  8b Setaliste Franje Sepera Street

The Meeting will start at 10.00 and the Agenda includes:

Introductory presentation on the activities implemented; evaluation of the training seminars, round table and study visits to Subotica. Preparations for narrative reporting prepared by Stanka Parac, Project Coordinator

Partners activity reports (LDA Subotica, LDA Osijek, LDA Mostar)

Presentation of visibility actions and publications (webpage, call for written contributions, newsletters, project publications)

Presentation of the documentary film 1 background – in Croatia (Wolverhampton Light House Media Centre)

Concluding session, recommendations and evaluation  by Ms. Erika Kudlik, representative of Lead beneficiary.

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International Call for Written Contributions on Good Local Practice in Intercultural Governance

Subotica, 26th January 2010

LDA Subotica and its Partners announce an international call for written contributions on the theme “Good Practices in Intercultural Governance”. The writing languages, the translation and the final editing of the publication will comprise English, Serbian and Croatian. The paper will be presented during the School of Local democracy which will be held in Mostar in 2010. The set of Papers will be collected and evaluated during the final part of the implementation of the above-mentioned Project and further disseminated in follow-up actions. This publication will serve at identifying some of the key conditions of an effective and efficient public service delivery in a decentralised legal, administrative or fiscal environment for ethnically diverse local communities. The main aim is the development and the updating of the concept of responsive and transparent local self-government as a key actor to improve equal access to public services. Given this mainstream, several contributions on the processes of the management, organisation and administration of service delivery from the point of view of the responsiveness to different ethnic groups will be chosen. The research wish to include as well areas which traditionally are considered neutral and technical such as urban service management.

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School of Local Democracy 1

Training seminar on Intercultural Governance
Subotica, Serbia, 21-25 August, 2009

The School of Local Democracy has been a five day residential training seminar for local government officials and civil society organisations held by intercultural governance workshops. The participants came from partner organisations of LDA Subotica, local authorities included in ALDA network both from EU and the Western Balkans, local civil society organisations and multiethnic municipalities from the Vojvodina Region. Participants from Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, UK, Spain were also present at the event.

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1st MEETING OF THE STEERING COMMITEE

Subotica, 8th August 2009

The Steering Group, composed by the Representatives of each Partner of the project, was held in Subotica in August. The first step necessary to implement the action was the appointment of the Project Team who will be in charge of the assigned tasks as determined in the original project description. The project Partners appointed the following members of the team: Mr. Ben Oram (Wolverhampton Light house Media Centre), Mr. Miljenko Turniski (LDA Osijek,) Ms. Dzenana Dedic(LDA Mostar), Ms. Olga Perusic (LDA Subotica), Ms. Erika Kudlik (City Administration Subotica), Ms. Stanka Parac (ALDA, Project management).