The workshop was a part of the project “Creative Youth Action”. The aim of the workshop was to motivate the young and creative participants of the project to become better informed about how their critical thought and critical theory can factor in their daily work, by employing creative practices that have bearing on contemporary social circumstances. The workshop was led …

Training for traditional skills and values, by instigating the creative practices among the younger population, thus encouraging self-employment and economic growth through tourism Aim of the project The Project’s primary aim is to implement an approach that foregrounds creativity and self-initiated activities as the basis for personal and social economic growth, whilst raising awareness among the younger population about the …

The Project aims at examining what Macedonian print media understand under the term ‘European values’ and their representation. The Project, thus, encompasses a research aimed at gathering data on the way/s in which the European Union and the system of European values in general is portrayed in Macedonian daily print media: Дневник, Нова Македонија, Утрински весник, Вест, Вечер, and the …

Aim of the project The primary aim of the project is to gather knowledge/s on the bond between culture, creativity and the economy, i.e., meanings on the social inclusion aspects of the creative economies. The project, thus, aims at presenting and acknowledges the concept that foregrounds the cultural and creative resources and potentials as the basis of economic growth rather …

Survey: The European Educational Space and Higher Education in the Republic of Macedonia The increased engagement (at the state level) in the Republic of Macedonia, particularly in the field of education, prompted Professors Suzana Dzhamtoska-Zdravkovska, Mishel Pavlovski and Loreta Georgivska-Jakovleva to carry out research dedicated to the question of whether (and how) the Macedonian higher education system contributed to the …

March 21st 2013, in Skopje, saw the book launch for Marta Markoska’s collection of poems, Headfirst Toward the Heights (in the Macedonian original: Стрмоглаво кон височините) by Marta Markoska. This collection was awarded the Aco Karamanov Award for 2012. Promoters included Loreta Georgievska-Jakovleva and Slavica Gadzova. This collection marks Markoska’s forth book. The multi-media promotion included a video and poetic …

The Gallery Osten held the first event of the 2013 annual program of the Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) titled “Culture as a Lifestyle: a meeting with novelist Goce Smilevski”. The novelist spoke about literature and exile in the work of playwright Goran Stefanovski, as well as the subject of intercultural communication. CCCS’s program is set to continue …

During 2013, the Center for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) organized cultural events, as part of its “Culture as a Lifestyle” program. Its contents equally focused on the promotion of contemporary art and the advancement of cultural heritage/s. A part of the activities were directed towards organizing debates on topics otherwise marginalized or often left undiscussed and/or unreseached. The program …