ABOUT US

From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

Nobel Prize Winner Ivo Andrić ''The Bridges''

 

    BalkanKult foundation is the first regional cultural foundation in the Balkans. It has been made out of a need expressed through the work of cultural practicioners and artists in order to create new cultural environments. It is founded on the experiences of the BalkanKult Association, established in 1999 in Sarajevo.

 

 

 Goals

 

•  Promotion of international cultural cooperation

•  Support mobility of people, ideas and expertise

•  Development of cultural diversity

•  Development of creative industries

•  Enlargement of cultural market

•  Research and publishing activities

 

 Mobility fund

 

•  We established the fund which support artists and practitioners, including policy makers, to trevel in order to show their works and exchange experiences with colleagues from Europe and world and make long term contacts

 

 Main projects

 

•  Problems and Opportunities For Cultural Cooperation

    inside the Balkan Region - SWOT
•  Euroregions – cutlural cooperation in Euroregions in the SE Europe

    especially in the field of cultural tourism
•  Creative Europe
•  Present and Future Role of Foundations in Cultural Funding and

    Policy-Making in the Balkans, Belgrade
•  Against the cultural boredom – international programme – culture in small towns
•  Preserving the intangible culture, music and customs through

    cultural and rural tourism and networking the cities in the Balkan region
•  Models for the Protection of Rights in the Field of Literature
•  In the sounds of the places – music festival and cultural tourism in SEE
•  International relations and perspectives of cultural diplomacy
•  Mobility Matters 
•  Mobility of Artists and Cultural Professionals for the European
•  Council of Europe’s Regional Programme on Cultural

    and Natural Heritage in South East Europe
•  Development of private museums in Serbia
•  Norden Balkan Culture Switch was a long term (2002 – 2006) multilateral

   programme of culture cooperation and networking between cultural institutions,

   practitioners and artists from Nordic and Western Balkan region.

   Programme is coordinatet by The Nordic Council of Ministers and

   Balkankult Association (continuing by Foundation). 

   It has so far consisted of about 40 different projects

   and included more than 30 different institutions from the both regions. 

   As a follow up of this project, new initiatives took place, such as Days of

   Icelandic culture, Days of Lapland culture, Days of Serbian culture in Iceland…

 

 

BalkanKult has successfully realised numerous cultural invents by which the cultural bridges have been initiated:

 

 â€¢  In the sounds of the places – music festival and cultural tourism in SEE

 â€¢  Nordisk panorama, film festival

 â€¢  Against the cultural boredom – culture in small towns

 â€¢  Days of Dutch film in Belgrade

 â€¢  Lapland in Serbia

 â€¢  Zajecar Philosophy School

 â€¢  Danish Film Festival in towns of Serbia and region

 â€¢  The Days of Nordic Culture

 â€¢  Graphic workshop – Belgrade Meetings

 â€¢  Days of Icelandic Culture in Serbia

 â€¢  Days of Serbian Culture in Iceland

 â€¢  Days of Irish Culture in Serbia

 â€¢  Exhibition Eastern Serbia - Undiscovered Culture

 

 Main partners and financers

 

Nordic Council of Ministers, Stability Pact for SEE, Council of Europe,  Italian Institute for Culture, European Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Kopinor, Institute ERICarts, Les Rencontres (European Association of Cities and Regions for Culture), Goethe Institute, Embassies of Nordic countries, Zentrum fur Kulturforschung, Association Progetto Musica, Company Actavis,  Company Carlsberg , Delegation of the European Commission in Belgrade, Ministry for Culture of Serbia etc.