Moldova to host workshop on cultural exchange between Eastern Partnership countries

Baku, April 16 (AzerTAc). The Regional Monitoring and Capacity Building Unit (RMCBU) of the Eastern Partnership Culture Program will hold its 1st Culture Policy Exchange Workshop in Chisinau, Moldova for culture professionals from the six EaP countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) on April 17-20. The workshop aims at the elaboration and the assessment of culture strategies and policies that shall motivate culture policy reforms and the identification of common strategic interests in the field of culture of the six EaP countries. During 2013 and 2014 the RMCBU organizes two cycles of Culture Policy Exchange Workshops. The Workshop Cycle 2013 is dedicated to strategic thinking and the elaboration and the assessment of policies and strategies. The three workshops of the cycle will be held from 17-20 April in Chisinau, Moldova, in July 2013 in Gori, Georgia and in October/November 2013 in a venue to be confirmed in Ukraine. Trainers from the EU and trainers and participants from the six EaP countries will share expertise and best practices while working on policy reform projects. The participants of the workshop represent national and local authorities, public cultural institutions, civil society organizations, cultural industries and individual actors from different sectors of culture. The Open Session entitled “Strategies for Culture and the Approach of Moldova” will discuss strategies for the development of the culture sector in the context of the process undergone by the Republic of Moldova in recent years and will present the actual status of the country strategy development for the cultural sector. The Workshop Cycle 2014 will focus on the implementation of strategies and policies and will be held in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus.