The first European Information Center in Ukraine has been opened in Lutsk, at 13b Molodi Avenue. Its task is to disseminate information among the territorial community of Lutsk and the region about the principles of functioning of the European Union, the economy, politics, and cultural traditions of EU member states. The opening of the European Information Center took place within the framework of the implementation of the "Let's Build Europe Together" Program, initiated by the Center of Public Organizations of Volyn "Our Cause" and the "New Stav" Foundation (Lublin, Republic of Poland). On this occasion, the heads of Lublin public organizations who are partners in cooperation arrived in Lutsk: board member of the "New Stav" Foundation Jan Fedirko, and head of the "Young Democracy" Foundation Pawel Bobolovych. Director of the EIC Alina Shpak, at the time of the opening, outlined the priority tasks of the Center's work. Among them is the establishment of cooperation with diplomatic missions of EU member states for the purpose of obtaining a complex of information for its dissemination among the community of the region. The work of the Center is built in two dimensions — the organization of information campaigns and the provision of consultations for those interested. The Center will place special emphasis on cooperation with mass media and educational institutions of Lutsk and Volyn. Let us recall that in the course of implementing the "Let's Build Europe Together" Program, 15 School European Clubs operate in educational institutions of Volyn, 4 of them — in Lutsk. Lutsk residents and guests of the city had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with their activities during the fair of public organizations that took place in Lutsk on April 20-21. Considerable attention in its activities will be paid by the European Information Center not only to disseminating information about the EU in Volyn, but also to presenting the region in the institutions of the European community with the aim of creating a positive image of the oblast. As noted during the presentation of the Center by the head of the CPOV "Our Cause" Vladyslav Stemkovskyi, the strategic task of this organization consists in developing a model of the Ukrainian experience of European integration and its further dissemination to other regions of Ukraine. Currently, the Polish model of informing territorial communities about the EU has been taken as a basis, and Poland, in its time, took German developments as a basis. Thus, the transformation of the experience of our Polish neighbors to Ukrainian realities should contribute to the growth of motivation of territorial communities toward the European community — believe the organizers of the European Information Center.
The first European Information Centre in Ukraine has opened in Lutsk
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