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Contact Person (1):

Ms Cvjetana Plavša-Matić (Director)

Contact Person (2):

Mr. Pavle Schramadei (Cooperation & Development Projects Officer)

Address:

Štrigina 1a 10000 Zagreb

Telephone (1):

+385 (0)1 23 99 100

Fax:

+385 (0)1 23 99 111

E-mail (1):

alf@zaklada.civilnodrustvo.hr

The mission of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development is to promote and support civil society development in Croatia.

Through its activities the National Foundation strives to achieve active citizenship in the development of a modern, democratic and inclusive society in the Republic of Croatia.

The values on which the vision of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and its goals are based are: respect for human rights, the public nature of its work, the responsibility of all participants in the development of the community, cooperation and dialogue between all participants in the development of society, availability of information, tolerance and respect for variety and non-violence.

The core activities are:

- Encouraging citizens to action, involvement and participation in community development;

- Building the capacities of civil society; - Developing cross-sector cooperation and collaboration between civil society organisations;

- Increasing public influence and visibility of the work of civil society organisations;

- Developing of social entrepreneurship and employment in the non-profit sector;

- Increasing the influence of civil society in the process of adopting public policies.

The Foundation provides logistical and operational support to the National Network in Croatia through the Network Strategic Development Scheme (NSDS). For more information, please refer to the document “NSDS Step 4” under Resources column on the right. This document highlights the main responsibilities and services to be provided by the Network Coordinator for the members until 31 August 2011.

Under Resources you can also find other important documents for the Network, such as: Network Internal Rules, Members List and Member Survey Results 2010.

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Network Internal Rules	111.9 KB
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Members List	130.01 KB

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Faces from the Mediterranean - a photo Exhibition

Mon, 26/04/2010 - 17:18 — Press Office

National Network:

Croatia

The exhibition 'Faces of the Mediterranean', a project prepared under the Common Operation scheme in cooperation with National Networks from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon and Montenegro, is kicking off at the end of April.

The 'Faces of the Mediterranean' photo exhibition consists of simultaneous open air photography exhibitions that will be held in popular places of the capital cities. Photographs of faces, scenes from everyday life, scenery, monuments and traditions of the common Mediterranean heritage will be presented to youth, migrants and the public at large, in order to improve perceptions regarding the EuroMed space by encouraging openness of the societies involved.

The exhibitions aspire to improve perceptions, celebrate cultures and de-construct stereotypes of the Mediterranean south and the countries of origin of their migrants as a way to promote social cohesion. This will be accomplished through simple interactive participation techniques – visitors will be encouraged to write their impressions on provided blackboards about provoked feelings, thoughts or ideas of the location of a respective photo.

In essence, the exhibitions will bring to the people the face of the Mediterranean, by providing them with the opportunity to visualize, to wonder and to learn about the ‘other’ and by encouraging dialogue especially among young people.

The opening in Zagreb will be on Saturday 24 April at 11AM until 2PM. With the exhibition, we have arranged short courses of the following, less known/spoken languages in Croatia: Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian and Hebrew. Everyone will get an already prepared dictionary with a few basic phrases.

Later that day, the exhibition will be placed at the French Institute in Zagreb until 3 May.

After Zagreb, the exhibition is moving to the cities/towns of Pula, Rijeka, Petrinja, Omis, Velika Gorica, Dubrovnik, Delnice and Zadar. The National Foundation as the HoN has prepared the promo material.

The link of the preview film of the exhibition:
http://vimeo.com/10975716

http://zaklada.civilnodrustvo.hr/

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