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5296 Kostanjevica na Krasu
Slovenia
- International/Cultural relations
PROJA Institut has an executive and a supervisory board, presided by a president. It had 2 part time employees in 2022, with a budget of close to 15.000 eur, mainly received through small donations and own services. Proja also had been partner on a EU project in Palestine, with another Slovenian NGO - Humanitas and is occasionally working also with Apis and Vitaa, also from Slovenia. Proja is member of the Voice of the people, a movement for democracy and civil rights in Slovenia. Through our senior staff, we are cooperating with Maydan - a movement working for the concept of transnational Mediterranean citizenship, registered in Italy.
We organize workshops, exchanges and arts/cross-cultural events at our location in the village on Slovenian/Italian border.
PROJA aims to explore and present the potential of each individual, as well as groups of likeminded people, for our common future. It is environmentally sensitive and strives to protect the human as well as other beings' rights and looks for alternative models of lifestyles, in tune with the other and with ourselves.
The main objectives are to offer spaces of encounter of different cultures and to present and develop, through various means, audio-visual, story telling, activism as well as advocacy for rights, the good practices that we believe will bring a better understanding between the people and more equality of opportunity worldwide.
From 2017 on, we implemented the "Walk for Palestine" project and were partners, in 2018 and 2019, in the EU project - "Bringing Culture to Marginalized Palestinians", together with the Palestinian Vision from Palestine and the association Humanitas from Slovenia. Between 2017 and 2023, most importantly - the MED Land project took place - which explores the Mediterranean area, its identity and stories, through video and photo production.
In 2022, the institute participated in several photographic events and publications of works, in cooperation with the Vitaa association in the preparation of short informational films. One of the most important events was the exhibition on Venice, which explains this place as the cradle of the new world through the photographs of Bojan Brecelj and the sketches of Marko Pogačnik. In cooperation with SAZU and the Italian Cultural Institute, we also presented this project in a book. In 2022, the institute also participated in the Voice of the People movement, where it contributed audio-visual content (Voice of the People on the Ground) and worked to promote active electoral participation, especially in local elections. We also managed a small project for psychosocial assistance to girls in Palestine and employed one person from Palestine. In the months of February to May, the institute hosted 7 international volunteers who participated in the construction of spaces for public events as well as in cultivating the land and growing fruit.
Proja and its staff has years of experience and references in intercultural education as well as in arts and culture events. Few NGOs in Slovenia are active in the more rural areas and we have an advantage to be located in the border area, also an area of migration trails and in any case rich in different cultures. The expertise of PROJA's president, Bojan Brecelj, a renown photographer and story teller, and Eva Marn, director, a human rights lawyer and activists, with years of experience in development and humanitarian work, can be, in itself, a guarantee for useful contributions.
The Mediterranean is its specific geographis focus of PROJA, please see https://medland.life/, and as explained above, our objective is intercultural exchange and awareness. We are looking forward to cooperating with other organizations, within the ALF network and with the similar objectives as ours.