Interfolk
GARANT, 2009
BRIDGES, visit to The Cultural Centres in Denmark
at Vartov, September 2009. Tatiana Burieva, Deputy Director present GARANT.
BRIDGES, visit to AKKS – Amatørernes Kunst & Kultur Samråd at Vartov, September 2009. Marina Mikhaylova, director exchange experiences.
BRIDGES, visit to the Association of Folk High Schools in Denmark at Nytorv, September 2009. Meeting with Thor West, chief consultant, FFD.
Study visit from the Russian NGO-centre GARANT
Interfolk was in September 2009 host in Copenhagen for a study visit from the Russian NGO-centre GARANT in Arkhangelsk, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers' NGO-programme for Nordic-Russian cooperation.
Presentation of GARANT
Garant was registered March 1998 as NGOs Support Centre and its activity was and is aimed at training and developing NGOs and civil servants as well as building-up an infrastructure of the Third sector.
Garant implemented more than 200 social projects on the regional, nation-wide and international levels. In the period of 2000-2010 Garant organised several conferences and workshops focused on collaboration of Russian NGOs with Sweden and Finland, to ensure matchmaking process for NGOs of different countries.
See Regional charity NGO Arkhangelsk Centre of social technologies “Garant”
With the mobility grant from Nordic Council of Ministers' NGO-programme for Nordic-Russian cooperation, Garant intended to develop their contact to Danish NGOs, and they had been recommended to contact Interfolk as host.
Porgramme of the visit
During the 3-day visit in Copenhagen the group of five staff members from GARANT had meetings with more organisations with mutual introductions and exchange of experiences as well as dialogue about possíble future cooperation.
The programme included visits to and dialogue with::
- AKKS – Amatørernes Kunst & Kultur Samråd, with office at Vartov
- Cultural Councils in Denmark, also with office in Vartov
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The Cultural Centres in Denmark, also with office in Vartov
- Danish United Nation Association
- and not least good contact and dialogue with Interfolk
Follow-up
The years after in 2012 and 2013, the leader from Interfolk and deputy director from Garant made two unsuccesfull applications to the Nordic Council of Ministers' NGO-programme for Nordic-Russian cooperation.
But in 2016 we were succesfull and got support to the ambitious and successfull Nordic-Russia cooperation project, BRIDGES, where we developed a new online database for Nordic and Russian NGOs that wanted to be engaged in cross-border cooperation. See
