CTA - Closer To Asia Association (Stowarzyszenie Closer to Asia)

CTA - Closer To Asia is a non-profit organization founded by a group of people connected by a passion for Asian countries - their culture, society, history, politics. CTA members include University graduates, travelers and businessmen. Our main aim is to promote understanding among people, cultural and scientific institutions of Poland/European Union and Asia.
We are experienced in preparing numerous events. For three years we have been preparing New Year Festivals in association with a Kung Fu school. We organized several times The Arab Days in Kraków, lectures about Middle East or Arab poetry readings. We made also Asian Culture Festival bringing together cultures of China, Japan and Indonesia. The members are also experienced in the field of science, they have been publishing articles and giving lectures.
The aims of CTA - Closer To Asia are, beside organization cultural events, spreading knowledge about Asian culture in European Union (especially in Poland) and scientific and scholar activity - co-organizing of inter-university scientific conferences and publishing a periodical. For example we co-organized an international science conference "Change and Stability. State, Religion and Politics in the Modern Middle East and North Africa" (Krakow May 28-29 2009), which gathered many scientists from whole Europe, United States, Middle East and India.