The group decided that apart from the Steering Committee River//Cities Platform needs coordinator - Agnieszka Wlazeł was asked to take the position again.
The group decided that the most important for the Platform in the coming months is to attract new partners and to examine the possibilities for the platform formalization. We need to do two steps: 1. Strengthen the platform, form the association, 2 reach the point where the R//C stands alone, with fees etc.
ECF grant will help us to do so. Budget has been a bt reversed to be able to pay for coordinators work, lawyers consultancy, financial/applications advice.
New presentation material should be first available by the Culture Action Europe General Meeting in connection with the European Cultural Forum – 29-30 of September and used on other conferences later (e.g. Poland).
What the various partners can do:
Stockholm: Nordic regional meeting in the autumn.
Venice: solicited by various partners, new interest on a regional scale, Veneto region. Also on a regional administrative level there is interest to promote new identities of small and medium sized cities.
Vienna: November meeting
Odessa: a few organisations from Lithuania, Belarus and Georgia interested, more to be said in August.
Gdansk: working on application to finance the meeting-conference in March.
Berlin: investigate possible partners in Germany
London: Rivers of the World is a potential infrastructure to collaborate with, help with locating artists etc.
Skopje: would keep contacts and develop the western Balkan region contacts.
Partners decided to join Culture Action Europe network.
Next R//C meeting is going to be held in Vienna – 19-20th November.
Gdansk conference 2nd half of March 2010: general theme - Private investment/public space.
The Memorandum of understanding should be send to
Chrissie Faniadis Intercult
Nytorgsgatan 15
116 22 Stockholm, Sweden
next deadlines for partners:
7 August: website notes from the website working group
11 September: translation of Memorandum in local languages.
18 September: deadline for promotional material in time for Cultural Forums (Polish and European).
