Of library services to people.

Kirtimai Culture centre organizes a lot of alternative music concerts with local and international music bands. Some of them are held inside, others, such as Musical Picin, outside.
Other activities are projects managing. There are some annual projects, for example Worlds’ Lithuanians Unity Day, which is celebrated  at International Vilnius Airport. Other projects depends on finantional support from  Lithuanian Council for Culture. Mostly projects are connected with variuos forms of art. The main goal usually is to enclude communities or people with fewer opportunities and to share our experience and ideas with them. 

In 2014-2015 in cooperation with the volunteering center "Deineta" the Library has been implementing the project "Youth voluntary service" which according to the EU voluntary  service program „Youth in Action“ creates a similar youth volunteering model in Lithuania. The project contributes to a more active involvement of young people into the labour market.

During the period of 2014- 2015 Siauliai city municipal public library branch „Saule“ has been running computer literacy training course according to the project of Lithuanian Labour Exchange under Social Security and Labour Ministry „Be sure in yourself“. The Project  helps the young people  16-25 years old who are not motivated to study, work ar participate in social life.
In the period  of 2011-2013 the Library carried out  Education Exchange Support Foundation project  funded by the Leonardo da Vinci partnerships program  "How museums, galleries, libraries and archives can contribute to lifelong learning." The project involved organizations and institutions from different EU countries (Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Italy, Portugal) in order to clarify the role they play in supporting life-long learning, and its aim was to attract socially vulnerable groups: seniors, the disabled, the unemployed, needy families,  people experiencing serious illnesses or disabilities. The library has helped  to many  people to start participating in lifelong learning process. This helped them to promote their different skills, increase participation in community life,  develop their artistic expression, reduce  computer illiteracy.

On the initiative of the Vilnius employers’ organisations, the Tripartite Council of Vilnius City bringing together social partners was established in 2000, followed by the Tripartite Council of Vilnius County established in 2001. The Association has two members on each of these Councils. Discussions held in these councils are concentrated on city and region development, occupational employment, training and enhancement of professional qualifications, training courses for businesspersons, etc. In addition, meetings of the Tripartite Council of Vilnius County are held in district centres as well.
In its activities, the Association pursues the following priorities: improvement of business conditions, industry and business infrastructure development, enhancement of corporate competitiveness, improvement of professional qualifications and training, market protection against unsafe and poor-quality products, and environmental issues.

Main activities: coordination of cultural activities in the municipality; promoting art lovers activities, fostering and organization; cooperation with societies, non-governmental organizations; ethnic cultural activities and development; various festivals and cultural events organization.

"Step into new year with a new book" - donating new fiction books to school libraries. Most of rural schools cannot afford to buy new books, neither children parents. The books we donate are often the only ones kids can access. This project is going for 15 years and we have spent ~€1M
Leadership, business, art programmes - we choose talented students from rural school and bring them to the camp in capital or near sea, where they can work and study with best proffesionals in respective field. We see this opportunity not only as developing skills and get some actual practice for students, but also as a motivational time, where kids from distant locations can understant what they can achieve in the future.
Renovation of stadiums/sport halls - working hand to hand with "Coca-cola" we had significant part in reconstruction of infrastructure in 7 rural schools. Most of these stadium and sport halls are built and not renovated since 80's or even older times.
Wide scale educational games - our this year project to encourage students to read books. Big game on internet platform involving mistery story written by known fiction writter and students performing different task which could be acomplished only with consulting books.

 Nordic Baltic Mobility program for public administration. Historic greenery in Scandinavia and Lithuania, 2011  Nordic Baltic Mobility program for public administration . Cultural heritage in Scandinavia and Lithuania: knowledge and experience, 2012.  Nordic Baltic Mobility program for public administration. Application of cultural heritage objects to public use,2013

Every year Sirvintos District Education Centre implements from 5 to 20 projects of various levels for non-formal adult and children education. We work with youngsters quite a lot. We had many projects for youngsters such as “Motivation of young and active people, leaders of young people’s organizations, teachers education and sociality in Sirvintos district” (leadership, project management, public relations trainings, 2012), “Incentive of citizen” (incentive of public spirit iniciatives, 2011-2012). “From stage to screen” (creativity workshops for film making and life skill development, 2011). Also, we train facilitators, who later volunteer in various camps. Also, Education center prepares and implements qualification programs for teachers, the institution is accredited to develop pedagogical qualification. It is obvious that we have practice working with young people (developing their life skills and encouraging their self-reliance, independence), organizing various workshops devoted to art developmet (film making, plein-air painting), developing pedagogical qualification.

Main annual projects:
“Loftas Fest” (since 2012) - the only urban festival in Lithuania, which connects art, music, workshops, exhibitions and a lot of creative people. Attendance – over 6000 unique visitors.
“What’s next?” (since 2013) - a unique international two-days conference of creative industries where culture, technologies and business meet in one event.
Concerts - up to 40 individual concerts anually.Kelis , Xzibit, Hot Chip, Nicolas Jaar, Ellie Goulding , The Editors, Moderat, Jazzanova, Crystal Fighters and many others already performed on LOFTAS stage.
Summer terrace – a place for live and electronic music performances, day activities, movies, workshops, games, kids zone. Embodied LOFTAS vision of fulfilled urban lifestyle.
Christmas factory  LOFTAS - Cristmas market with a unique concept - Last Minute Market, involving christmas Tree Town,  Pop-up cafe, creative workshops, Kids zone and live music concerts.
Young bands competition (since 2014) - a project, focused on fresh music incommers in purpose of pushing young peoples musical careers.
Professionals from music industry evaluate, consult and teach young musicians basics of self marketing, public relations, positioning in market.
Insanitus - a closed spase festival of light, sound and interdisciplinary arts.

In Evergreen Organization we work on building the capacity of the youth through training and workshops, we try to provide them with the essential skills of a healthier environment.
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Working with women is one of the most important aims we have, empowering women in all the fields possible as they are the givers of life and love.
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And as we believe, environment is not only trees, oceans and climate, environment is everything that surrounds us, living in a healthy environment where men and women are equal, youth are employed, women are heard and the world is green. That is called Evergreen.