Creative Collaboration is a British Council regional project with the participation of artists, cultural leaders and creative entrepreneurs across South-East Europe and the UK. Creative Collaboration uses innovative approaches to networking in order to encourage arts and cultural leaders from different countries and different art forms to talk together, learn from each other and develop new partnerships for effective cross-border working. The project is bringing together leading arts professionals from the UK and across Europe to work on issues like public space, arts and professional development, social inclusion, cultural leadership and creative cities.


At the beginning of 2009 were announced the projects that successfully passed the Creative Collaborations selection. Bulgaria is a project partner in seven of them. They are operational in different sectors such as theatre, film, dance, literature, new media, visual art sand architecture. Further information about these projects will be announced at the time of their realization.

Children’ City Culture and Creativity Workshop
The workshop takes place in the framework of the “CHILDREN’ CITY CULTURE CONCEPT” initiated by the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia and suported by the British Council Creative Collaborations fund. The project aims at developing a new urban culture among the youngest generations through introduction of an optional module at schools, based on innovative teaching methods with topics from architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, arts and design. Participating countries are Bulgaria. Albania, Georgia, Greece, Romania, Turkey and the UK. Bulgaria is a leading partner.

Workshop participants
Participants from the partners' countries will take part as well as representatives from the Bulgarian Chamber of architects, Union of Architects, Ministry of Education, Sofia municipality, teachers, artists and students.
Bulgaria - Vesselina TROEVA – project coordinator, UACG, Roumiana STANEVA  - FIELD Сentre, Milena TASHEVA – Department of Urban Planning, UACG
Georgia - Nana KIRMELASHVILI , Art Caucasus Association, Tbilisi
Greece - Ioanna IORDANIDOU, PhD student, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of  Architecture
Romania - Codruta CRUCEANU, Free lance consultant, Alternative education through the arts
Turkey - Selcuk SAYAN, Akdeniz University, Department of Landscape Architecture, Antalya
UK - Marilyn HIGGINS, Heriot Watt University, School of the Built Environment, Edinburgh, Henry PLUCKROSE, FCP(hon). M Phil., former headteacher Prior Weston School London, Headteacher-Fellow Avery Hill College London, main consultant of he project.

Where: University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Planning, Block A, floor 3, Lecture room 316
When: 24 to 25 April 2009

Download the seminar programme in Bulgarian.