WHO WE ARE
EUNIC is the European Union National Institutes for Culture. EUNIC creates effective partnerships and networks between EU National Institutes for Culture in order to improve and promote cultural diversity and understanding between European societies and to strengthen international dialogue and cultural cooperation with countries outside Europe.
EUNIC Warszawa Cluster
is a EUNIC National Network which was established in November 2007.
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EUNIC Warszawa Home
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EUNIC Warszawa Members
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Nineteen Members and Associate Members signed up at the inauguration of our EUNIC Warszawa Cluster on 22nd November 2007 and in 2008 three more joined our cluster. Our thirteen Members come from twelve countries (AT, BL, DA, DE, FR, GB, GR, HU, LT, PT, RO, SK) and our five Associate Members from five more countries (EE, IE, PL, SE, SI). They include eleven cultural institutes and six embassies. You can see the full list on our Members page and from there you can link to their websites. We are looking forward to some more members joining us early in 2009.
Our current cluster president – whom we elected on 25th November 2008 – is José Carlos Costa Dias of Instituto Camoes. He is supported by Dorota Kwinta, EUNIC Assistant.
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EUNIC Warszawa Projects
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One of the main aims of our cluster is to develop common cultural projects and activities. These will involve at least three of our member institutes – though often more than that – and we will always seek to involve a range of partner organisations within Poland and from other countries where appropriate.
In our last meeting we proposed six projects for 2009 and we identified working groups of interested colleagues who will get together to plan them. You can see details of these projects as they emerge on our Projects page. The six projects are as follows, with their (working) titles and the name and institution of the Coordinator:
Alter Ego Phase 2 - Martin Wälde,Goethe Institute
European Day of Languages - British Council, Goethe Institut, European Commission, FRSE - "Lifelong Learning Programme"
Joint Cultural Day - Walter Maria Stojan, Austrian Cultural Forum
“Read in translation” Literary Translation Events -
Justyna Czechowska, Danish Cultural Institute
Literature and Immigration - Dorian Branea, Romanian Cultural Institute
2 day International Conference – person to contact: to be agreed
Poems on the Underground – person to contact: Anna Palonka, the Book Institute
Generation'89 - person to contact: Dorian Branea, Romanian Cultural Institute
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EUNIC Warszawa Charter
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You can read the full text of our Charter here on the website
(don’t worry – it’s only a page and a half). The key section is our objectives where we say that the EUNIC cluster will
develop common cultural projects and other adequate forms of
collaboration in cultural project activities (such as sharing of
physical premises and data for cultural events);
share good practices and expertise among cluster members on
projects, cultural policies of the guest country, organisational and
administrative issues;
discuss issues of common interest (including EU cultural policies
and strategies);
support the member state holding the EU-presidency through
innovative partnerships that demonstrate the value of
cross-European collaboration and the diversity of European
culture;
act as a communication partner for local public and private
institutions on European cultural issues of common interest;
support – if requested and appropriate – cultural project activities
of EU member states which do not have resident cultural
institutes;
act as a facilitator to bid for EU-funded projects.
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