The exhibition was organized by the Slovak Republic as a presiding country of the Central European Cultural Platform in cooperation with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria. The exhibition was dedicated to the European Year for Development 2015.

The exhibition was inaugurated on May 12, 2015 with the participation of Ambassadors of the Central European Cultural Platform countries, director of the Slovak Agency for International Development, representatives of the Platform countries´ ministries, Norwegian government authorities, representatives of non-governmental and non-profit organizations, students and compatriots.

As part of the opening ceremony various national development agencies and documentary films of participating countries were presented. Large-scale color photographs documenting the development projects of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Austria were showed. Czech Republic presented its successful development projects in Ethiopia (sector of water supply and sanitation), Yemen (agriculture sector), Mongolia (sector of social infrastructure and services), in Palestine (the sector of production and energy supply) and in Zambia (sector of education and health).

The Central European Cultural Platform was founded on June 6, 2001as part of the first Foreign Minister´s conference of the “Regional Partnership” countries (Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia), 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 in 2001 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.