International Youth Meeting Centre leads educational events aimed at bringing together youth who speak different languages and hold different world views. The European Academy, directed at adults, offers training sessions and workshops for various professional and social groups. It organizes international conferences on political and cultural issues of modern Europe, serving to deepen Polish-German understanding and dialogue between East and West. Our third project, the Memorial Place, strives to present opposition movements in the 20th century and commemorate the moral heritage of the Kreisau Circle. We also coordinate a partnership programme between twin-cities Wroclaw and Lviv and participate in EVS projects.

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During numerous projects we have been working with artists from all around the world.
The BSCC is an organiser of the Festival of World Cultures “Window onto the World”. The main goal of the festival is to create a meeting spot for people of all nations and cultures, a place where they could freely exchange experiences, share thoughts and ideas. We are convinced that an honest dialogue between multicultural artists and the publicity is necessary to build a society of solidarity and understanding.
Among our biggest undertakings there is e.g. the SEAS, a cross-cultural project connecting artists and intellectuals from the Baltic and Adriatic Sea Regions. The BSCC had been involved in the SEAS platform since 2002 until the termination of the project in 2005. Overall budget included 2,4 mln EUR.
Since 2004 it operates the ARS BALTICA Secretariat (www.ars-baltica.net)

The aims of the Foundation are carried out mainly through organizing Photomonth in Krakow - one of the leading European photography festivals and one of the largest ongoing cultural events in Poland, and through preparing exhibitions displayed in our gallery Zpaf i S-ka in Krakow, Poland. In May 2010 the 8th edition of the festival will take place, including over 30 individual and collective exhibitions presented in the best galleries, museums, and post-industrial spaces in Krakow. Foundation for Visual Arts is also active in publishing market – we publish albums and books about Polish and European visual arts scene. The Foundation is actively cooperating with over 40 cultural institutions and galleries from Europe and USA, and participate in and present its achievements at international art fairs and festivals: Art Forum Berlin, PhotoEspana, Edinburgh Art FestiVal, Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, PhotoLondon, Art Basel, Paris Photo, London Art Fair, Venice Biennale, Month of Photography in Bratislava.

Young animators of culture - We help young leaders from small communities to gain knowlage and experience how to organise cultural life in their communities. Thanks to workshops and small donations they realise their first project. Over 50 project were implemented.
Film "Preschool" - the project invite young pepople (13-20) intrested in making their first real documentary film.
For Tolerance - program was created to support all activities which stimulate tolerance and openess to cultural diversity. In this project ngos can applicate for donations to create cultural and educational project which realise those aims. There were already II editons of the project, 47 projects were impelmented.
Poland 8/18 - in more then 20 communities we were implementing photo workshops for young people (8-18). The result of the project will be also photo album and special workshops in Warsaw for most active participants.

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Coordination of UNESCO ASP in Poland: participation in i.a. Baltic Sea Project, Great Volga River Route project, UNESCO/Daimler-Chrysler Mondialogo project;
Euro-Arab Dialogue Programme: participation in study on image of Arab world in European schoolbooks and vice versa;
Cooperation with Association Arabia.pl in preparation of intercultural Euro-Arab workshops for youth “Let’s talk about the future”;
UNESCO/Poland Fellowships for young researchers from Africa;
9th UNESCO Summer School in Zamosc (Poland) on cultural heritage protection;
Encouraging celebration of World Philosophy Day in Poland and other UNESCO/UN Days, Years and Decades.
Cooperation in awareness campaign in Poland on safer Internet.

Active People – people from various environments, including children and youth, who know and value natural and cultural resources of the Place, they live in, and want not only to co-decide but also to contribute to its development by creating brand products and services based on local heritage.
To support all aspects of regional development Foundation MiLA operates in four thematic areas:
Local entrepreneurship
Social participation
Active youth
Heritage tourism
More inforation on www.mila.org.pl

Within the last 10 years Institute of Slavonic Philology at the Jagiellonian University has organized and co-organized many projects such as:
* In search of New Canon. Reinterpretation of the cultural tradition in post-Yugoslav countries after 1995/ W poszukiwaniu nowego kanonu. Reinterpretacja tradycji kulturalnej w państwach postjugosłowiańskich po 1995 roku. (http://postjugo.filg.uj.edu.pl/index.htm)
* Common project with Interfaculty Institute of Ecumenism and Dialogue (MIED) Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow "Ecumenism and Dialogue Library" (http://upjp2.edu.pl/strona/5qfvkdgxbw)
* Students Journey to Bosnia, October 2009: European Bosnia - Oriental Bosnia/ Bośnia europejska – Bośnia orientalna (http://bih2009.wordpress.com/)
* International conference Interpreting Slavdom [(Wy)tłumaczyć Słowiańszczyznę], devoted and the art of translation of the literature of Slavonic languages organized with Villa Decius Association; every two years since 2008 (http://www.villa.org.pl/index.php?nr2=322)

“OpenFora” gather people from all over Europe at different European locations to create a lively political debate by similarly well-informed, not essentially like-minded people who are willing to get involved in the present and future of society. “MyEurope” is an annual film contest that invites active Europeans, artists and filmmakers to reflect and create their views on Europe. Selected films are shown during a Europe-wide film festival at several places across the continent. “Art Interventions” is an interdisciplinary programme convening local, national and European artists and scholars at disadvantaged communities to identify socio-economical-political processes that are taboo in the community and find, through community participation, innovative ways to deal with them. “Training for Europe” is a series of training seminars. They either combine elements of project conception with work on intercultural and team leading skills or train people in non formal methods of citizenship education in a European context.

Organizing of exchange programs for young people and professionals in youth and social work within Europe, between Europe and the Mediterranean countries and developing Projects within the co-operation with developing countries.