Lublin 2016 – Appendix - Kultura Enter

Lublin, whose growth was always dependent on East-West contacts, has great hopes for this process.
Transformation in Russia and the Eastern Partnership countries needs time; therefore, we believe that
cultural cooperation, by building mutual understanding and respect for distinctness, provides the most
desirable foundation for the idea of common Europe, and opens the doors to genuine partnership in
many other fields.
Cultural Development
Strategy
We want for the bilateral relations between East and West nurtured in Lublin to coincide with rapprochement
between the North and South of Europe, between affluent and severe Scandinavia and the
Baltic region and poorer yet effervescent cultures of the Black Sea. We believe that Lublin, as it was
the case in the past, can bring together and integrate these diverse influences; it can also be a junction
for the movement of cultures and provide space for their creative dialogue, thus remedying the effects
of many decades of mutual isolation.
Culture of Knowledge - means a cultural challenge resulting from both the development of new technologies
and a cognitive crisis arising from excessively „sectoral” focus of today’s science and too narrow
scholarly specialisations that increasingly stifle creativity. We believe that culture, when created
by means of new tools, can provide a platform for the integration of different areas and provinces of
knowledge, at the same time offering the environment that promotes innovation in the approach to satisfying
individual and collective needs that respect ecology.
Lublin is a large university centre of comparatively traditional nature. The symbiosis of science and
culture opens new windows of opportunity for successful outcomes in both these fields. This, in parallel,
strengthens the city’s offer in terms of „creative industries”.
In order to achieve such ambitious objectives, we accept six interdependent operational AREAS of
the cultural development strategy:
Participation
Financing
Availability
Governance
Offer
Space
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