Programme: Regions in Growth

Common objective – promoting multicultural dialogue between Roma and other ethnicities through arts, tangible and intangible cultural heritage
Specific objectives:
•Increasing the participation of Roma people in cultural events;	
•Development of skills and capacity for cultural exchange between Roma people and other ethnicities through training and common cultural initiatives.	
The project will address the needs related to:
•Stimulating the Roma community to participate actively in public cultural life; and	
•Preserving and developing the cultural identity of minority communities and educating tolerance for different ethnicities in the community.	
Target groups to be covered are:
•people from the Roma ethnic and cultural minority, including Roma artisans, students and young people;	
•employees of the project partner organisations;	
•civil society, including disadvantaged persons and persons interested in culture and the arts;	
•persons in remote areas;	
•experts engaged in the field of art and culture, including representatives of the Roma ethnic and cultural minority;	
•representatives of local and state authorities, the non-governmental sector, socio-economic partners and Roma leaders;	
The main activities are:
•Project management	
•Enhancing the capacity of the partners of the project to work with ethnic minorities in the field of culture	
•Creative talks	
•School of Folk Dance and Singing	
•Celebration "Art and culture for all"	
•Round table "Multicultural dialogue between Roma and other ethnicities"	
•Publicity and information	
The main results to be achieved through the project are:
•Strengthened multi-ethnic cultural dialogue between children from the Roma and Non-Roma populations in Kyustendil Municipality;	
•Increased capacity of stakeholders in the municipality for the development of Roma children and young people through education, creative expression and communication through art.