Poland

Our most important event is international light festival Bella Skyway Festival, which is held every year since 2009 and provides a unique combination of beauty, architecture, art, light and scientific, mainly astronomical, inspirations — is the largest outdoor cultural event in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie region and one of the most highly rated cultural events by the domestic audience. We are also the organizer of other international festivals such as The Art of Fact Festival and Street Theatre Festival and o a national-level festival: The Festival of Film Songs and Ballads
Toruń Cultural Agency has a long-standing record of participation in European Voluntary Service programmes, as well as of facilitating local cultural activities. Our European Voluntary Service (EVS) programmes included projects with volunteers from Spain, Macedonia, Hungary and Portugal. Support for local artists and cultural activists is provided by “Mikrowsparcie” (Micro-support) programme of small grants, enabling beneficiaries to publish or promote their work, as well as to organise free of charge events addressed to the public.
Our international projects have included, among others:

“Lightbridge” (Polish-Norwegian light art project),

“Lux Scientia” (British-Polish-Estonian light art project),

“Spectrum 2014/2015” (Portugese-Slovenian-Finnish-Czech-Polish light art project),

“Mixdoor” (Hungarian-Greek-Croatian-French-Polish street dance and theatre project),

“ALIPI — Advancing Light-Driven Public Interactions” (Czech-Dutch-Polish- Slovenian light art project), “COOLture Freshmaker” (youth project connecting people from Poland and Czech Republic), 

“At Home in Europe” (youth project connecting people from Poland, Latvia, and Portugal).

The most important events that have recently been organized and co-produced by TAK are: International Short Story Festival (since 2007, co-produced with the cultural centre Zamek in Wroclaw), Kultuba (for the Wroclaw-European Capital of Culture 2016 office), Kindness Day (for the Wroclaw Promotion Bureau), TIN Weekly (for the Culture and Art Centre in Wroclaw), RadioWroclove.com (for the city of Wroclaw), Wroclaw Sound Festival (for the IMPART Art Centre), Survival Art Review (for the ART TRANSPARENT Foundation), “What are you reading, Madam?” film cycle (together with Polityka weekly). In 2011 our association acquired financial support from the Visegrad Fund for which we organized V4 project in the Polish-Czech-Hungarian-Slovak partnership: its subject was the development of international communication through literature. In 2012 TAK has also acquired additional grants for the “November with Adaptation” festival which will be organized in Kłodzko – it is co-financed by the Lower Silesian Marshall Office. We have also started another project for the Visegrad Fund which will be international V4 Liternet Television.

The Equality and diversity – in practice Project
Coordination of the Coalition for Anti-discrimination Education
Report "Significant absence - anti-discrimination education in the formal education system in Poland"
Institutional capacity building of the Anti-Discrimination Education Association
The „Equals = quality” Project

The aims are accomplished by the following forms of activities:
- conducting courses concerning education and improvement within different fields of knowledge and skills
- organizing lectures and talks
- organizing training courses and workshops
- organizing conferences, seminars and discussion meetings
- publishing activity
- scientific and research activity
- educational tourism
Main activities:
- adult education (women,unemployed etc)
- teacher trainings
- International youth exchange
- volunteering 50+ and 60+
- projects in the field of global education
- international partnerships (Grundtvig, Leonardo da Vinci and bilateral projects with NGOs from Belarus and Russia)

Radomsko realizes many Project In cooperation with international partners that refers to intercultural dialog In many aspects of understanding. Our aim is to show many dimensions of this dialog and look for most possible ways of communication.
1. Family Matters Project is concerned with the influence of emigration and immigration on communities and families, the role of volunteering in supporting families, the accessibility of services for children, the work of selected youth representatives, best practices and various methods which could be used by every local government.
2. „Golden ideas for creativity” - the objective of project is to create capabilities of cooperation and participation in building more opened Europe through tightening contacts and mutual understanding. This will be provided by forum for discussion about various aspects of creativity of cities shaped by activity of their inhabitants. The two-day conference consists from plenary part with general speeches of invited guests, as well as workshop part in four thematic groups. Project will allow to exchange experiences between cities representing.
3. Twin Towns in Action – the main purpose of the project was to promote activeness as a one of the most important aspect of living on the local and European level. Our aim was to promote activeness among European citizens, involving the local community considered on two fields: personal and social.
4. "Key to Identity" - project is directed to 50 people represents of different areas of activity (egg. authority, institution, ngo's). Project is aimed on building common European identity on local level and active citizenship participation. So, we will concentrate on our experience in EU, our potential and new possibilities to cooperate. The project provides four-day event relating to the main theme, which is building sense of European community.

1/ GENERATIONS IN ACTION 2009: a big project for women, with computer courses, English courses, Wendo trainigns, legal advice, psychological adivce, job advice.
2/ WE, THE WOMEN OF MURANÓW: a project where women aged 50+ meet to explore the history of our district, learn about its history, acquire new skills (eg photography) and create an amotional map of the district.
3/ ACTIVISATION: a project on cyber empowerment of women aged 50+
4/ EXPERIENCE TRANSFER - from Daughters to Mothers: computer classes for older women (supported by OSKa Foundation: the concept of individual work in pairs (young volunteer – older beneficiary) appears to be very efficient; this project can serve as an example of our approach: it enables the meeting and cooperation of young women, mostly queer and/or feminist or anarchist, with older women from different social groups).
5/ QUEERMASH I. Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer Empowerment Project (September – December 2008): supported by Embassy of Kingdom of Netherlands and consisting of fundraising workshops, WenDo self-defense course, coming out, relationships, sexuality workshops, improvisation theatre, creative writing, photography, movie and visualisation workshops, discussion series, integration events such as poetic slams) = 300 hours in total.
6/ ZEBATKA - bike fixing workshops for girls and women

Our projects: “What Keeps Us Together, What Sets Us Apart” - journalism workshops * (September 2005) “Cultural Diversity in Society - overcoming conflicts and taking the chances” - training for youth workers on conflict management (November 2006) “Neighbours Meet Neighbours” - training for youth workers on project management for cross-border areas (February 2007) “EULE-Life and Development” * (February 2007) “Together for Coexistence” * (March 2007) “Shaping the Future of Europe” - contact-making seminar for Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries (May 2007) "Youth opens the space" - UNESCO Youth Forum - open space conference for youth trainers, youth leaders and youth workers from 33 countries (July 2007)

We are looking forward to start new projestc about intercultural dialogue connected with improoving the security of the countries and international organisations. We are aware that the mistake of the EU is the looking on the international relation just through the aspect of finances. But especially in the contacts with the North African and Middle East countries we should look also on the other aspects. For us security, antiterrorist prevention can be managed by intercultural dialogue. To do it we have to improove intercultural skills of the european citizens and clear up our own culture to the "others". For the author of this application such cooperation between our departments is especially intersting as he is willing to go into the euromediterranean issues and to write habilitation (scholar work post doctoral) about this subject. Egypt in this issue should be according to the author of this application the key player and on this country (where Alexandria has a special meanning) should be placed accent of the cooperation between european part of the partnership and the south and east part of it.

core programmes:
- Thursday Gatherings - events on a regular basis to connect innovators
- Trend House - innovators club
- District Hall - open to the public center for innovation in Warsaw
- Innovation Visitors Bureau; inclusion of foreign innovation into Warsaw’s ecosystem.
- Corporate Innovation Playbook - a collection of good practices and ideas for implementation of innovation in a corporate environment. A handbook with ready-made paths for identifying needs and implementation innovations that meet these needs in the shortest way possible.

The Association conducts international workshops, conferences and meetings about intercultural education, multiculturalism and the building of civil society.
The Association supports initiatives in the following program areas:
- arts and culture
- integration and education
- civil society and human rights