ReCulture

Re-branding of Cultural Institutions in the Western Balkans

The ReCulture project aims to build the visibility and modernise the appearance of Western Balkan cultural institutions by supporting cooperation between the cultural and creative industries within the Western Balkans and EU Member States.


The specific project objectives are:

  • Capacity building of cultural institutions from the Western Balkans through reconstructing their visual identities and developing new skills in strategic audience development and communication practices;

 

  • Offering new professional experiences and building the expertise of young Western Balkan designers; acquiring and practising new design skills between EU and Western Balkan design professionals and

 

  • Promoting new marketing and audience development approaches and testing new models of revenue for Western Balkan cultural institutions through education on new business skills, production of a limited series of souvenirs and development of online souvenir shops. Four cultural institutions from the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia) will be familiarised with best practices in modern communication and audience development from the EU, receive a new visual identity and skills to strategically develop and maintain new communication and audience development approaches.

Coordinator

BA

Kulturni centar Trebinje

TRG PALIH BORACA 1
89101 TREBINJE

Partners

Rs

Fakultet dramskih umetnosti

AT

Fiels og

RS

INK fest

BA

Muzej savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske

ME

Umjetnička Kolonija Danilovgrad

fr

Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la méditerranée

Start

01/01/2021

end

30/04/2024

grant awarded

466.852€

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