Bulgaria

“Public Achievement educational network””-funded by Operative Programme “Developing of human resources” through European Union-European Social Funds
"First steps to an Active citizenship"
"Civic skills Academy"
"Let's introduce and document our cultures"
"Bad habits"

Dimitrovgrad Public Library named after Penyo Penev is the largest contemporary informational, educational and cultural center in the municipality.
The main activities of the library are as follows:
- Assembling, processing, organizing and storing library assets – books, periodicals, graphical editions, musical notations editions, audio recordings in Bulgarian and foreign languages;
- Circulation of paper and non-paper information sources for satisfying the needs of the readers;
- Bibliographical and information services;
- Research, storing and provision of information about the Municipality of Dimitrovgrad. Archive of the local newspapers;
- Automation of librarian activities – an automated librarian system with 9 computers is in place.

Forms of action:
Annually participate with its own projects by the Program "Culture" at the Sofia Municipality for realization of various initiatives related to preservation and popularizing of the cultural identity of the district, traditions and rituals.
- Feast of the district "Lozenets" - Spassov den - a festive concert and presentation of different customs, their exhibitions on traditional Bakery Products, etc.
-Residents of Sofia - 17th September – celebrate the Day of Sofia traditionally with a rich cultural program - concerts, exhibitions, children's representations and others.

Establishing Country-Based Mechanisms for Assisting Victims of Traffic in human beings and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Victim assistance vs. Survivor assistance
We re-affirm our goal of achieving full implementation of these principles as a matter of urgency and commit to:
1. Develop organization-specific strategies to prevent and respond to traffic in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse.  These would include time-bound, measurable indicators of progress to enable our organizations and others to monitor our performance.
2. Incorporate our standards on traffic in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse in induction materials and training courses for our personnel.
3. Prevent perpetrators of traffic in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse from being (re-)hired or (re-)deployed.  This could include use of background and criminal reference checks.
4. Ensure that complaint mechanisms for reporting traffic in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse are accessible and that focal points for receiving complaints understand how to discharge their duties.   
5. Take appropriate action to the best of our abilities to protect persons from retaliation where allegations of traffic in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse are reported.

Main activities of “Ecological Manifesto – ManEco” are:
- raising awareness events such as movie screenings, photo exhibitions and discussions;
- projects – environmental education, sustainable tourism
- research on topics such as climate change, conflicts, ecological diplomacy, recycling, sustainability, circular and shared economy, youth;
- consulting on topics like climate change, carbon footprint, just transition, circular economy and green entrepreneurship
- work with youth – trainings, youth exchanges

The main projects and activities of the EMCCCD are grouped arround 9 fields of action: Euro-Med Peace Academy; Euro-Med Human Rights Education Laboratory; Euro-Med Art Space; Euro-Med Initiative for Gender Equality; Euro-Med Migration Platform; Euro-Med Volunteering Centers. More details on those activies can be obtained from the Annual Report attached.

- Fighting the radicalization of Islam: what school communities can do against it? Comparative study of the cases of Bulgaria, Morocco, Romania and Spain (financed by the programme of EU against the violent radicalization, 2007 budget line). The project is included in the National Plan of Bulgaria for the Alliance of Civilizations - Educational modules for teachers in cooperation with Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Preparation of a book Civilizations: chock or cooperation (supported by Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and included in the Second national plan of Bulgaria for the Alliance of Civilizations) - Creation of Modules for teachers "Alliance of civilizations, contact of cultures" to be presented in the Summit of the Alliance of Civilizations in Istambul, 6-7 April, 2009

A basic part of our principles are collaboration, mutual trust, freedom of expression and opinions, enterprising, creativity and innovations. We had the opportunity to put them into practice through the elaboration of our first project – “Volunteering can be fun. The project was a response to the need for more active actions in the field of volunteerism, given that the latter is declared priority of the European Commission for 2011. Moreover, it was in line with the priorities of the “Youth in Action” programme for cultural diversity and for promoting youth participation in public life and democratic process. The project created a favorable environment for international exchange of volunteer skills and practices among young people, keen to promote European values. The participants had the opportunity through non-formal educational methods to develop their own skills for preparing European projects, which they applied later on local level through their organization.

In order to achieve its goals, the association may develop any activities permitted by law, performing organizational and informational consulting, translation and legalization .Development, coordination and implementation of projects and programs for regional economic and social development financed by European and international programs. The association is currently a project partner in project : "Strenghtening the entrepreneurship culture and collaboration in the eligible area" funded by the Interreg V-A Greece-Bulgaria Programm.