- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Heritage
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Religion
The mission is to develop and improve the civil society and to address local community issues through project implementation, trainings, education, conducting seminars, professional meetings and all kinds of rostrums dealing with up-to-date information and cultural flows.
The main objectives are: to support development of democratic civil society in Bulgaria and promote local philanthropy; to establish partnership for cooperation and joint activities in interregional and intercultural exchange; to protect the rights of the marginalized groups and assists their social integration; to promote education and training to gain competence and knowledge in different fields; etc.
The projects implemented for: increasing public understanding and active participation in decision-making on global key issues; raising public awareness respect for differences and appreciation of non-discrimination; establishing partnership for interregional and cross-border civil initiatives; building capacity for self-help among vulnerable group; involvement of socially vulnerable groups to active participation in the social life, training, socialization, integration; involving the youth in the cultural life; organizing different trainings; dissemination of information on local level in the form of information and consultation services, networking.
The CALE organizes series of thematic focus-meetings with main stakeholders for discussion of the numerous problems in the region: The culture as an expression of civil position and intercultural exchange; Participation of citizens in the local self-governance; Medicine and healthcare; Regional economic development; Youth and education.