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We are planning to accomplish our goals trough:
1. Improvement of general and specializes level of knowledge and business skills trough different kinds of training, research and analyses
2. Professional affirmation of young people and women
3. Promotion of Montenegrin natural heritage and beauty and speed up development in accordance with ecological standards
4. Promotion of science, art and culture of living
5. Enhance the culture offer of Montenegrin cities and create terms for practicing different attractive and interesting hobbies
6. Making connections and cooperation with organizations from Montenegro and abroad
7. Promotion of regional experience and European practice

Activities of NGO Niegreda are realization of projects in the field of creative industries:
- Advertising,
- Architecture,
- Photography,
- Design,
- Fashion,
- Film,
- New media,
- Music,
- Performing arts,
- Education,
- Publishing,
- Television and radio,
- Cultural management.
The first project of NGO Niegreda was organization of 88th Travelling Exhibition of The Art Directors Club from New York, that took place from 19th April till 1st May 2010 in Podgorica.

So far, since January 2008. NGO NOVA has carried out following projects:
- Women in Media Mirror: Media Literacy and Gender Equality, chrestomathy,
2008.
- Culture is Feminine Gender - the film Pillar of Salt, 2008.
The projects currently under way:
- Culture is Feminine Gender - workshops “Am I a Feminist Artist”
- The History of Gender Representations in Montenegrin Media
- Montenegrin Women’s Private Life History
- Montenegrin Women’s History Museum

Some of our activities are:
• Charity actions ’Share, Together We Can Do More’, during which we collected and distributed clothes, school books and school supplies, toys,... to the socially disadvantaged families in whole Montenegro.
• In cooperation with the Dnevne novine daily we started the initiative ’Introduce Podgorica Maternity Ward to the 21st century’, during which we introduced the
public to the deficiencies that exist in that healthcare institution and the problems which their users face on a daily basis. 
• School for Parents project which gathered parents, who attended the classes led by a psychologist. The project helped parents prepare and face with different challenges of parenting. The funding was provided trough the Fund for Active Citizenship (FAKT), financed by the EU through the EU Delegation in Montenegro.
• NGO Parents initiated a campaign for improvement of conditions in public preschool institutions named ’Children Deserve the Best’, focusing primarily on Podgorica, Bar, Budva, Herceg Novi... where the problem of overcrowding in the public preschool institutions is the most pressing. The campaign resulted in providing eight new schoolrooms within the existing facilities. Our association also launched a donor campaign to which eight companies responded, procuring necessary equipment and toys to the Podgorica based kindergartens. However, not pleased with the accomplished results, the Association carried out collecting signatures to an e-petition to the government that called upon the government to build new facilities. The government undertook building of 6 new kindergartens, with the funds obtained through the Council of Europe Development Bank’s grants.
• We are offering free legal counseling in the form of helping and advising pregnant women and new mothers on how to fully realize their labor law rights since September 2013. This started as a project financed by the US Embassy, but later on our members continued helping on a voluntary basis.
• The Parents Association has been very active in the field of promotion of breastfeeding in Montenegro. We have been celebrating the World Breastfeeding Week since 2012, and the National Breastfeeding Promotion Week.
• We have been a partner to company Telenor on their project Conquer the Internet, Surf Smartly for the last two years.
• We carried out a project Pripovjedaonica, with the aim of developing a support program that would promote tolerance, nourishing differences and valuing friendship among the preschool-aged children, within which we organized 13
workshops in preschool institution Djina Vrbica in Podgorica. The project was financed by fAKT.
• Through a project financed by fAKT, supported by the EU Delegation to Montenegro, the NGO Parents created with the Ministry of Health the national breastfeeding guidelines that define protocols and activities of medical workers regarding
breastfeeding. The lack of adequate and timely counseling has been recognized by mothers, but also by the authorities, as something that in the biggest part influences the low breastfeeding rate in Montenegro. The guidelines should help medical workers in giving right advice, and mothers to know what adequate advice should be.
• NGO Parents has established the first peer counseling breastfeeding group, consisted of mothers who are being trained to help other mothers to overcome problems with breastfeeding.
• NGO Parents also initiated the action of restoring old and building new playgrounds under the name “Return Playgrounds to Children”. It was initiated in Podgorica, where we restored, together with the citizens and companies, two playgrounds. In the meantime, the action spread to
Budva, Niksic, Cetinje, Ulcinj... In those activities out primary partners are companies that donate playground toys, but also other NGOs and foundations.

Montenegrina.net first digital library of Montenegrin culture and Budva Ecological Festival

Activities of NGOs NOMEN are:
Education of journalists and the public in order to develop modern media based on professional rules and ethical standards;
 
Organizing workshops, courses, seminars and training for journalists, media staff and people from economic, cultural and public life ;
 
Activities on the application of new technologies in the development of the media;
 
Connecting with organizations of civil society and networking in order to achieve common goals. Developing cooperation with similar institutions in Montenegro and abroad, especially in Southeastern Europe.
 
Conducting research that aim to establish the situation in certain areas of general public importance

- Translation, printing and promotion of playwright "Blind" by Belgian Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck, published by NGO ATAK and Open Cultural Forum
- Active presentation of segment from playwright "Blind" on the military airport Golubovci with the participation of ATAK's members, Association of youth with disabilities
- Participation in the program during the exhibition "Salvador Dali" in the Public Museums and Galleries Podgorica (poetic, acting, video and newspapers)
- active literary evening with the participation of the young Montenegrin poets; topic "Mysticism of Dead Poets" in Apartment 201, Podgorica
- Program "NGO gathering in total darkness" within Erste Foundation Award, Podgorica

-2001 “Art Dulcinium”, art project with Jung artists from Ex-Yugoslavian Republics. Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia.
-2004 “Balkan Dulcinium Art”, art project with Jung artists from all Balkan countries, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Greek, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Slovenia.
-2005 “Servantes Dulcinium Art”, art project celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publishing of Servantes' "Don Kichote" the art colony was organized in Ulcinj gathering young artists from the Mediterranean region, Spain, Greek, Turkey, Slovenia, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Albania.
-2006 “Montenegro in the eyes of American artists” represents art colony with young participants from USA and artists from Serbia and Montenegro and Kosovo.
The art colony enables ‘connection’ between our country and USA as a leading world art and cultural scene.
-2008 “Euro Art Dulcinium” The art colony organized in the Old Town of Ulcinj, and it gather all the young artists from the area (Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo) and European Countries (France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, and England).
-2010 „Art of our neighborhood” The art project with artists from countries which are bordered with Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo.
NGO Art Dulcinium organized a lot of exhibition
-2002. . SKC “Studenski Kulturni Centar”, Belgrade.
-2004 . “YUBIN”, Belgrade.
-2005. “Gallery 28” Temisuara, Romania.
-2005. “Gallery of Ministry of Culture”, Pristina.
-2005. “Reale Gallery”, Ulcinj.
-2005. “Art Gallery”, KC Ulcinj.
-2006. “YUBIN”, Belgrade.
-2006 . Gallery of Fine Artsi, Tirana, Albania.
-2006. . La Carboneria, Sevila, Spain
-2006. Gellery “Frinzgar”, Ljubljana, Slovenia
-2006 Kula Balsica, Ulcinj
-2007 . “YUBIN”, Belgrade
-2008. “Kula Balsica”, Ulcinj
-2008 . Cultural Centar, Toledo, Spain
-2010 Palata Venecija, Ulcinj

Including children and youth but also women which are social cases in the organization of
1. Model revues
2. Concerts
3. Dance groups
4. The selection for the miss of the region
5. Courses for the product design and litterary groups.
6. Hairdressers and cosmetic workers
7. Dressmakers
8. Social and psychological help for Women which are social cases.
9. Some performances in the theatre.