LEVER, 2016 - 2018

The three year NGO development project, entitled “Voluntary culture as leverage of cross-cultural activities in sparsely populated areas” (LEVER) is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ NGO programme for the Baltic Sea Region.

During the last years, we have seen more political and public interest for reviving the rural and sparsely populated areas in the Baltic Sea Region.

In this project, we intend to develop new methods and approaches to revive the areas and secure sustainability by applying the ”citizen help citizen” or “peer to peer approach”, where civil society associations and their volunteers from the cross-cultural sector of amateur arts, voluntary culture, and heritage are engaged to provide available and involving arts and culture activities with an added value for civic and democratic participation and community bonding.

See the website of the LEVER project here: http://culture-lever.net