Project

The project "Book Paths and Mobile Libraries from Northwestern Bulgaria to Scandinavia" aims to unite the efforts of the Regional Libraries "Mihalaki Georgiev" - Vidin, "Hristo Botev" - Vratsa and Norwegian cultural operator in the mission to create an innovative and attractive way to access culture and art outdoors. The aim is to rise the interest in library services by reaching out to audiences on spot, applying original methods of cultural entrepreneurship in neglected urban areas and people with limited resources to access cultural products, including members of the minorities. It is planned to develop a strategy for sustaining the interest of the audiences through innovative library services.

The project is expected to allow the creation and testing of a new, innovative for the region cultural information service on spot, as well as access to cultural exchange centers - libraries, public literature events and the integration of potential audiences - target groups, through modern methods and facilities. These are: the digital platform BOOKPATHS.EU in three languages ​​- Bulgarian, English and Norwegian; realization of an innovative cultural attraction "Traveling Literature Stage" through a closed type electrical facility. There will be also an exchange of literature practices between librarians from Bulgaria and Norway, as well as an international workshop "Diversification of cultural information services and sustainable development of audiences".

In order to provoke audiences, artists, designers, art managers, readers, writers from Bulgaria and Norway will be invited and to stimulate the debate about the positive effect of reading, a demonstration land-artistic installation "Book Fjords" will be built.

The project is a concept that follows the main priorities and objectives of the "Cultural Entrepreneurship, Heritage and Cooperation Program" and the general objectives of the FM EIP and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism by creating and disseminating innovative cultural information products and initiatives that directly support economic and social differences reduction. The main goal of the project proposal is to build a basis for broad cooperation between organizations and individuals from donor and beneficiary countries and aims to contribute to a greener, more competitive and socially inclusive Europe by increasing the role of literature heritage as an engine in local and regional development with a focus on employment, social inclusion and entrepreneurship in the field of culture. The project focuses on improving the conditions and the quality of presentation of the rich cultural heritage by applying interactive and modern digital methods to create innovative entrepreneurial ideas in the field of cultural information services and products of libraries and other cultural operators to create wider interest in contemporary literature work and generate revenue. The specific objectives of the project demonstrate a clear link between the overall objective of the project and the objectives of FM EEA and the overall objective of the program and it contributes in a concrete and consistent way to achieve the target by implementing specific activities in the thematic areas of Result 2 "Improved acces to culture and art".