Despite the important systemic changes that have been made in recent years at the level of public policy in the field of cultural support, cultural civil society organizations face a long-standing problem of limited institutional development opportunities. Thereby the permanent challenge of sustainability of its activities. This is mainly because the vast majority of financial support are defined mostly for the support of artistic creation or its presentation.
The main project activities are the process of strategic planning for A4 - asociácia združení pre súčasnú kultúru development, strengthening the core capacity of the organization, creating a case study of the process and sharing it through workshops with actors networked in the local and national network of cultural organizations. The first objective of the project is to build up sustainable institutional capacity through an appropriate format of strategic planning and implementation of its results into the development and professionalisation of internal planning, decision-making and management processes and job development. The second objective of the project is a transparent sharing of positive and negative experiences in the capacity development planning process with other similar actors at the local and national level and creating a case study. The third objective is to systematically promote proposals and changes in the field of public policies and support instruments to enable cultural civil society organizations to develop their institutional capacities and their sustainability.
The target groups are civil society actors in the field of culture and representatives of public administration.
The role of the partners, Anténa - sieť pre nezávislú kultúru and KU.BA - Kultúrna Bratislava, will be coordinated cooperation with the project applicant in the area of submitting and commenting on public policies at the regional and national level.