Cultural Innovators Network

What is CIN Cultural Innovators Network is a cross-sectoral and cross-cultural network of young activists from countries north and south of the Mediterranean. CIN composed of artists, cultural managers, civil society professionals and activists who are seismographs of the situation in societies, and they are motors and incubators of transformation. Our network promotes mechanisms of democratic, inclusive discourse, exchange of working experiences, acceptance of innovative approaches, and mutual consultation and cooperation. All this was initiated and supported by the strong relations and infrastructure of the Goethe-Institut and the Transformation Projects initiative that is financed by German Federal Foreign Office. CIN has organised Learning Journeys as the initial part of the project, and organized 3 big regional forums. Currently CIN is running through more specified activities such as developing projects, Cultural Innovation Days, CINnovation Journeys. The methodology of the organization is based on participatory setting in the decision making processes. Open space methodology is the core of all the project/Program development processes. CIN members are reaching a wider audience on the grassroots via CIN projects and activities in the Euro-MENA region. CIN in numbers: 109 members 30 countries 9 Steering Committee Members 30 Projects CIDays CINnovation Journeys Mentorship and Monitoring Program Communication Strategy 2000 + people in our public events 30 000 + people online. Recognition for CIN projects -1000 and 1 Realities, European Parliament European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2013, April 2013 (Italy country winner); -Equal for Equal, The International Innovation Award, August, 2014 (3rd place) -Amy Goodman - winner of the often so-called "alternative nobel prize" and founder ofDemocracy Now! gave a speech in Cultural Innovation Day (CID), Berlin 2014 -CIN members and CIN was the incubator and first supporter of the projects which put important impact for social changes: Tunisian Youth Parliament and Citizenship Academie initiated by CIN. Network Partners: -Goethe Institut Cultural Innovators Network is supported by the Goethe-Institut as part of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership and is financed by the German Federal Foreign Office. -European Alternatives -Kadir Has University, Center for International and European Studies  Projects Partners: Algeria SAYKA, Constantine TEDxCasbah, Algiers Belgium OralSite Canada Canadian Council for International Cooperation, Ontario Croatia Association of Social Workers Zadar, Zadar Cyprus TheatrEtc, Nicosia Egypt Arab Origami Center, Alexandria Mahatat for Contemporary Art, Cairo EU European Alternatives EURO-MENA Anna Lindh Foundation, Cairo Germany Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Bonn German Dance Archives, Cologne Landesvereinigung kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. , Magdeburg Spring Lessons im Aufbau Haus, Berlin The Ashoka ChangemakerXchange, Munich Youth Bank Germany, Berlin Greece 3 137 Artist Run Space, Athens Artivist e-magazine Dynamo Project Space, Thessaloniki Plays 2 place, Athens Iraq Tolerancy International Italy Associazione culturale Fabbrica Europa – Centro di creazione e produzione di cultura, Florence European Borders, Milan Moving’Up, Torino OneYouth Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome Jordan Jordan Open Source Association, Amman Lebanon Civil society movement, Beirut UNHCR Lebanon, Beirut Morocco Fawda trio Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE), Rabat Netherlands European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam Utrecht University, Utrecht Palestine Al Hannouneh Society for Popular Culture Al-Hara Theatre – Bethlehem, Bethlehem Ashtar Theatre, Ramallah Dar Al-Kalima Theatre, Bethlehem Filistin Ashabab Markez Baladi Threshold towards Art (Atabet Fann) Serbia ARTIKAL, Belgrade Civil Association ARTIKAL, Belgrade ELEKTRIKA Association, Belgrade Nebograd, Belgrade Slovenia Tribun, Institute for Culture, Research and Development, Ljubljana Spain Generación Espontánea, Alcobendas Nautarkia, Barcelona Sudan “I’m Sudanese” – Campaign Gesr Center for Development, Khartoum Tunisia JISER Reflexions Mediterrànies, Tunis Turkey CSR Turkey, Istanbul Gençtur, Istanbul Masterpeace, Istanbul TEGV, Istanbul The Center for International and European Studies (CIES), Istanbul Yaşayarak Öğrenme Merkezi (YAŞÖM), Istanbul United Kingdom British Council, Manchester De Montfort University, Leicester USA New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York USAid, Washington