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The
first European Information Center opened in Lutsk
Lutsk. April, 21. The first European Information Center was
opened. Its goal is to spread the information about the EU,
economics, politics, and cultural traditions of the EU states. The
creation of the European Information Center is made in the framework
of the Build Europe Together Program, the initiators of which is the
Nasha Sprava Center and the Nowy Staw Foundation (Lublin, Poland).
Besides, other guests in presentation took part chairmen of
Lublin public organizations. Among them were the partners of Nasha
Sprava – Jan Fedirko, the board member of the Nowy Staw Foundation,
Pawel Bobolowycz the chairman of the Mloda Demokratia Foundation.
Alina Shpak, the director of the European Information Center, during
the presentation said about the first-need objectives of the Center.
The main are to make the cooperation with diplomatic representatives
of the EU states in order to get the information and to spread it
among the public of the region. The activity of European
Information Center have two parts: organization of information
campaigns and giving the consultations. The main accent is put on
cooperation with mass-media and educational institutions of Lutsk
and the Volyn region.
We remind that in the framework of the Build Europe Together Program
the European School Clubs are created in schools of Volyn region,
four of them are in Lutsk. The citizens of Lutsk and the guests had
an opportunity to get to know with the ESCs activity during the
public organizations Fair, that was held in Lutskon April, 20-21.
As Vladyslav Stemkovskiy the chairman of Nasha Spava Center said,
“the strategic aim of the European Information Center is working out
of Ukrainian experience model of European integration and its
spreading in other regions of Ukraine”. Now it is taken as example
the polish model of how to inform the territorial communities about
EU. “So, the experience of tratsformation of polish neighbours to
Ukrainian realities will promote the increasing of territorial
communities motivation to European community”, think the organizers
of the European Information Center.
Program “Build the Europe together!” is realized
in support of Polish-American
Fond of Freedom (Program RITA) and Fond of S.Batory (Warshawa).
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