The Verkhovna Rada
of Ukraine has ratified an Agreement between the
Government of Ukraine and the European Commission on Ukraine's participation in
EU programme Creative Europe.
According to Vice
Prime Minister/Minister of Culture of Ukraine Viacheslav Kyrylenko, Creative Europe is aimed at supporting culture and audiovisual sector
initiatives, thus promoting cross-border cooperation, platforms, networking,
and literary translation and the development, distribution, or access to
audiovisual works among the countries of Europe.
The present stage will last
till 2020, the participants of which can be candidates to enter the EU as
well as countries which were the signatories to the framework agreement. The
programme consists of two sub-programmes: the Culture and the Media with a
budget of around €1.5 billion. Following ratification and passing all necessary
procedures, Ukraine will have an access to financial support for implementation
of projects along 18 various directions.
It is planned soon to
establish a coordinating body to perform the functions of the National ProgrammeOffice
the activity of which will be supervised by the public.
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