Invitation for the exhibition „ How Central Europe Helps the World"
07.05.2015 / 17:13 | Aktualizováno: 29.08.2017 / 12:27
From 13 to 25 May 2015 at the City Hall Gallery of Oslo (Rådhusplassen 1), the exhibition of photographs „ How Central Europe Helps the World" will be held. The exhibition will be opened to the public Mondays to Fridays from 8,00 to 15,30hrs.
The exhibition is organized by the Slovak Republic as a presiding country of the Central European Cultural Platform in co-operation with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria. The exhibition is dedicated to the European Year for Development 2015.
The Central European Cultural Platform was founded on the occasion of the first foreign ministers’ conference of the “Regional Partnership” countries (Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia) on 6 June 2001, as a forum for cultural dialogue with the purpose of providing support for bilateral and multilateral cultural projects focusing on common Central European cultural interests. The main goal of the Platform is to spread information and raise awareness of cultural life in the participating Central European countries, the European Union and beyond. Since its foundation the Platform has supported more than 50 projects worldwide. Recently, the Central European Cultural Platform has focused mainly on the countries of the Western Balkans and of the Eastern Partnership. Nowadays, it is our aim to highlight the common cultural identity of Central Europe by introducing various cultural projects to the public beyond the borders of the European Union.
The exhibition „ How Central Europe Helps the World" focuses on the development aid which the countries of the Central European Cultural Platform provide. Development cooperation has become an important component of Czech foreign policy as well. Priority countries of Czech development cooperation are divided into three categories: programme countries with specific programmes of co-operation (Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Moldova, Mongolia), project countries with single cooperation projects (Cambodia, Georgia, Kosovo, Palestine, Serbia) and so called „phase-out“ countries in which Czech development cooperation is gradually ending (e.g. Yemen, Vietnam, Zambia). Bilateral development cooperation is provided in the following forms: technical cooperation, cooperation in the fields of economic and social infrastructure, financial cooperation, debt relief for developing countries, assistance for refugees in the Czech Republic, the granting of government scholarships, development guidance, development cooperation training and awareness, development research and the building of the capacities of nongovernmental organizations active in development cooperation.
More information is to be found on the web-site of the Czech Development Agency: www.czda.cz
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