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Five prizes of this year edition of Civil Society Gala have been awarded to projects of Mihai Eminescu Trust Foundation, Association for Local Development Ivan Krevan and Save Bucharest Association, organisations supported, directly or in partnership, through NGO Fund.
The First Prize of this edition and the Award for Art and Culture Section were awarded to Mihai Eminescu Trust Foundation, from Sighisoara, for the project Whole Village Project.
Established in 2000, by the British non-governmental organization Mihai Eminescu Trust, the foundation from Sighisoara aims from its very beginning, through the Whole Village Project, to revitalize the economic and social life of the villages, through the conservation and valorizing of the natural and cultural patrimony.
The results of the Whole Village Project program are impressive. There were repaired and restored over 600 buildings in more than 25 villages and towns, schools, churches, sheds, mills etc., over 130 natives were trained on traditional techniques and trades, lots of natives were involved in restoration projects.
On 1st December 2009, Mihai Eminescu Trust Foundation, in partnership with Local Council of Mosna Commune, County Direction for Culture, Cults and National Cultural Patrimony Sibiu and Norsk Institutt Kulturminneforskning (Norwegian Institute for Research in Cultural Patrimony Field), launched the project The Whole Village. A rural development pattern for preserving and valorizing Alma Vii patrimony, project supported through EEA Financial Mechanism – NGO Fund, Cultural Heritage Component (2nd Round).
Part of the Whole Village program, the project with a total budget of 144,500 Euro, from which 74,000 represents NGO Fund contribution, consists in a series of activities, such as: arrangement and opening of an information center for patrimony in Alma Vii, Sibiu County, trainings on traditional building techniques, elaboration of a new urban plan for the village, launching a website for promoting the Alma Vii community, demonstrative restoration of a historical building and of a public space from the community, introducing statutory protection for Alma Vii as a protected built up area.
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Another prize of this year Gala, UNDP Special Award, was awarded to “Kreuleanka” project, implemented by Association for Local Development Ivan Krevan.
The project is meant to promote the Ukrainian cultural patrimony from Repedea commune, Maramures County, starting from the well-known fact that local people came to abandon the traditional Ukrainean inherited values.
The project, with a total budget of 20.420 Euro, received a 14.000 Euro grant through EEA Financial Mechanism – NGO Fund, within the Cultural Heritage component (Round I).
Among the results: 300 youth have been informed about the establishing of a folklore band in Repedea; 20 youth have been selected for the folklore band; „Kreuleanka” folklore band has been established for promoting Ukrainian traditional songs and dances; folklore Ukrainian; 50 traditional songs have been collected from Repedea villagers; the songs have been promoted through a brochure and CDs; a website focused on Kreuleanka has been launched, http://kreuleanka.com; a supporting and promoting group has been established, etc.
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“Laws count. You can involve too”, a “Save Bucharest” Association project has also been awarded the First Prize (Civic Attitude and Public Involvement category), and also the Second Prize (Budget - / Effciency + category).
The project aimed at having NGOs involved in public decisions and normative acts regarding green areas and construction and built-up areas.
“Save Bucharest” NGO has a constant preoccupation in the field of public involvement at decisional level. Another project which is worth to be mentioned is “In search of the Little Paris”, in which “Save Bucharest” is a formal partner of CeRe – Resource Centre for Public Participation, and Bucharest Association.
The project, whose main applicant is CeRe, aims at identifying and elaborating participatory solutions for valorizing Bucharest architectural and urbanistic patrimony, being also financially supported through EEA Financial Mechanism Mecanismul – NGO Fund, within Cultural Heritage (Round II), with 59.375,99 Euro.
About Civil Society Gala
This year Gala, the 8th edition, was organised on May 26, in Bucharest. 192 projects of 136 civil society structures entered the competition. Civil Society Gala is a Millenium Communications project meant to promote and award the Romanian non-profit sector projects.
About NGO Fund
The NGO Fund is part of the contribution provided to Romania, through EEA Financial Mechanism, by 3 EFTA member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The NGO Fund aims at strengthening Romanian civil society, by supporting five thematic areas projects: Consolidating Democracy; Children and Youth; Social Inclusion; Environment Protection; Cultural Heritage.
The NGO Fund is administered in Romania by a consortium made up of Civil Society Development Foundation, Environmental Partnership Foundation and Carpathian Foundation – FDEC Romania.
The First Prize of this edition and the Award for Art and Culture Section were awarded to Mihai Eminescu Trust Foundation, from Sighisoara, for the project Whole Village Project.
Established in 2000, by the British non-governmental organization Mihai Eminescu Trust, the foundation from Sighisoara aims from its very beginning, through the Whole Village Project, to revitalize the economic and social life of the villages, through the conservation and valorizing of the natural and cultural patrimony.
The results of the Whole Village Project program are impressive. There were repaired and restored over 600 buildings in more than 25 villages and towns, schools, churches, sheds, mills etc., over 130 natives were trained on traditional techniques and trades, lots of natives were involved in restoration projects.
On 1st December 2009, Mihai Eminescu Trust Foundation, in partnership with Local Council of Mosna Commune, County Direction for Culture, Cults and National Cultural Patrimony Sibiu and Norsk Institutt Kulturminneforskning (Norwegian Institute for Research in Cultural Patrimony Field), launched the project The Whole Village. A rural development pattern for preserving and valorizing Alma Vii patrimony, project supported through EEA Financial Mechanism – NGO Fund, Cultural Heritage Component (2nd Round).
Part of the Whole Village program, the project with a total budget of 144,500 Euro, from which 74,000 represents NGO Fund contribution, consists in a series of activities, such as: arrangement and opening of an information center for patrimony in Alma Vii, Sibiu County, trainings on traditional building techniques, elaboration of a new urban plan for the village, launching a website for promoting the Alma Vii community, demonstrative restoration of a historical building and of a public space from the community, introducing statutory protection for Alma Vii as a protected built up area.
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Another prize of this year Gala, UNDP Special Award, was awarded to “Kreuleanka” project, implemented by Association for Local Development Ivan Krevan.
The project is meant to promote the Ukrainian cultural patrimony from Repedea commune, Maramures County, starting from the well-known fact that local people came to abandon the traditional Ukrainean inherited values.
The project, with a total budget of 20.420 Euro, received a 14.000 Euro grant through EEA Financial Mechanism – NGO Fund, within the Cultural Heritage component (Round I).
Among the results: 300 youth have been informed about the establishing of a folklore band in Repedea; 20 youth have been selected for the folklore band; „Kreuleanka” folklore band has been established for promoting Ukrainian traditional songs and dances; folklore Ukrainian; 50 traditional songs have been collected from Repedea villagers; the songs have been promoted through a brochure and CDs; a website focused on Kreuleanka has been launched, http://kreuleanka.com; a supporting and promoting group has been established, etc.
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“Laws count. You can involve too”, a “Save Bucharest” Association project has also been awarded the First Prize (Civic Attitude and Public Involvement category), and also the Second Prize (Budget - / Effciency + category).
The project aimed at having NGOs involved in public decisions and normative acts regarding green areas and construction and built-up areas.
“Save Bucharest” NGO has a constant preoccupation in the field of public involvement at decisional level. Another project which is worth to be mentioned is “In search of the Little Paris”, in which “Save Bucharest” is a formal partner of CeRe – Resource Centre for Public Participation, and Bucharest Association.
The project, whose main applicant is CeRe, aims at identifying and elaborating participatory solutions for valorizing Bucharest architectural and urbanistic patrimony, being also financially supported through EEA Financial Mechanism Mecanismul – NGO Fund, within Cultural Heritage (Round II), with 59.375,99 Euro.
About Civil Society Gala
This year Gala, the 8th edition, was organised on May 26, in Bucharest. 192 projects of 136 civil society structures entered the competition. Civil Society Gala is a Millenium Communications project meant to promote and award the Romanian non-profit sector projects.
About NGO Fund
The NGO Fund is part of the contribution provided to Romania, through EEA Financial Mechanism, by 3 EFTA member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The NGO Fund aims at strengthening Romanian civil society, by supporting five thematic areas projects: Consolidating Democracy; Children and Youth; Social Inclusion; Environment Protection; Cultural Heritage.
The NGO Fund is administered in Romania by a consortium made up of Civil Society Development Foundation, Environmental Partnership Foundation and Carpathian Foundation – FDEC Romania.