Bulgarie

1.Democracy and Human Righst education Seminars, Networking, Partnership Building Activities.
2. Europe and the World
Youth Exchanges
3. Local and international Internships (Lifelong Learning Programme LLP, Youth in Action Programme YAP)

Main activities of the organization are in the following fields:

Research & Development

Training

Consulting

Publishing

Networking
ISA team is now working on the preparation of a few projects intended for application under national and international programs.

Оur team  provides the student communities informational support to assist with development opportunities such as: national and international academic and non-academic scholarships, internship programs, non-formal education projects, and volunteering opportunities. ICCS involves university students in international trainings, youth initiatives and intercultural exchanges which serve to extend their understanding of European Citizenship and to critically develop their sense of European identity.
Institute  for Creative Civil Strategies works also as EVS sending organisation actively searching for European voluntary  service  placements abroad for Bulgarian EVS candidate volunteers. Currently we have two volunteers undertaking their placements in Slovenia and Hungary.
The ICCS’s host  EVS project  „Art Reporters Without Borders“ seeks to enhance the creativity of young people in Arts, New media & communication. It promotes a concept for ‘youth access to culture’  that  goes  beyond  accessing  cultural  products,  attending  spaces  and  receiving  information, but about  a  first-hand  experience  empowering  the  EVS volunteers personal  development  &  employment. Our two EVS volunteers began their year-long project ‘2014
The short term grupe host EVS Project "YOUNG SUSTAINOPRENEURS: Active Citizenship through Wind and Sunshine" project aims to raise awareness on sustainable living and other environmental subject involving young volunteers in the eco-building activities of the building of small youth educational center. The project will be implemented in the spring of 2015 with the help of 16 EVS volunteers from : Belgium, Croatia Great Britain, and Spain.

The main areas of activity of the Organization are development of civil-society participation in government; elaboration and application of controlling and accounting instruments designed for public institutions, and implementation of new practices and models in connection with public administration.
Some of our projects:
“Civil Monitoring Over the Process of Creating of New Election Rules in Bulgaria”;
“Civil monitoring over the used by the Government mechanisms for managing the sources of the EU structural funds”;
"Buying votes" or the Death of Local Democracy";
"Civil Monitoring Over the Activities of the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission";
"Development of Internal Controlling System at Municipal Levels";
"Civil Monitoring on the Program for Realization of the Strategy of Anti- Corrupt Fighting within the Judicial System";
"Formation of youth volunteers network on the territory of Sofia municipality", etc.

The Bread Houses Network (BHN) (first website in Bulgarian, available at www.bread-art-house.org), as a major program of the International Council for Cultural Centers, has the mission to experiment with and develop a network of innovative culinary-cultural community-building programs and social enterprises that operate simultaneously as a bakery and cultural center. The BHN aspires to revive traditional bakeries and turn them into cultural centers, and to build community wood-fired ovens in particular in marginalized areas around the world (BHN's Ovens for Peace Program). The Bread Houses strive to revive the concept of the communal baking house (furna/four/horno/forno, etc), offering breads from across the globe, and building community through collective bread-making events, integrating diverse and disadvantaged people while creating quality jobs (at the Bread Houses social enterprises).
BNH already coordinates BHN educational and community-building programs in twelve countries, and envisions a sustainable social enterprise whose profits will support bread-related community-building programs and social enterprises in the USA, Europe, and developing countries.
Some of the Bread Houses in the global BH Network that has been growing since 2009 were established after local people and organizations were inspired by the model and thus their Bread House was based on the Bulgarian BH model since its inception: these houses are designated below as “Bread Houses” . Those houses that are organizations or local bakeries that have decided to get associated with the BH Network and implement the model of community collective bread-making and arts are designated as “BH associates” to denote that the organizations already existed locally and added to their activities the BH method.
The International Council for Cultural Centers is planning to launch the First World Summit of Community Arts Centers and Networks in 2014 in the old historic city of Veliko Tarnovo.
The realization of the First World Summit is under the official patronage of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Rossen Plevneliev. We are expecting the participation of about 50 countries.
I3C officially established partnership with Harvard-based Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, founded by Dr. Doris Somer who developed the Pre-Texts Methodology for Engaged Learning.

IPCP works on :
- strengthening of European integration in different geographical areas;
- active citizenship and citizens' participation;
- fostering of equal opportunities and young people;
- sustainable economic development;
- employment policy, quality of work and social inclusion
The IPCP's working method is based on:
- decentralized and multilateral cooperation: cooperation between local, national and international partners;
- fostering of partnerships: partners exchange best practices and create common projects to reach common benefits;
- technical assistance and training addressed to local authorities, associations and NGOs (capacity building).
It does this through the exchange of experience, ideas and information and supports members to strengthen the quality and effectiveness of the sector.
All our projects are published at www.ipcp.eu as well.

Main implemented projects:
In the 2012/2013 period, IS implemented (as applicant and lead partner) the project "Rural youth for sustainable communities", funded by the Youth in Action Programme of the EU (YiA). The project assisted young people and relevant civil society groups in 3 European, 1 Asian and 2 African countries in building their civic leadership and community development capacity in the sphere of sustainable rural development and poverty reduction (project website: www.rural-youth.eu/).
In the capacity of partner, IS also implemented YiA projects focused on intergenerational solidarity and gender equality.
Main focus areas of IS activities: active citizenship, culture, intercultural dialogue, European cooperation, sustainable development, youth, social inclusion, ICTs, etc.
Main types of implemented activities:
- informal education and training;
- research (on topics within the focus areas);
- awareness raising and advocacy campaigns and events;
- conferences, discussion forums and seminars;
- exchange of good practices, participation in networks.