BIRN training - How to Write for the Culture Watch Online Magazine

The journalists' active involvement will help establish a positive environment for policy makers both in-country and abroad to create policies that speed up the region’s European-oriented transition.

Training continues tomorrow, while on the last day, March 19, a conference - Culture in the media - will be held.

The Balkan Culture Watch Strengthening Project, BCWSP, funded by European Cultural Foundation, is a 'build-on' project that complements the existing 3-year BICCED programme (funded by the Swiss Cultural Programme, SCP).

The project brings together different stakeholders (editors, trained journalists and other cultural associates) aiming to better connect regional cultural institutions and journalists, highlighting activities and key issues through analysis and the dissemination the information at a regional level through local media outlets and internationally, online.

This project aims to involve government officials and policy makers and work to improve the situation in the region by strengthening cultural life and cross-cultural cooperation as an important element of a participatory, open, and dynamic civil society.