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The EU GERIS project has been a fascinating two-year journey that has looked at the gaps in community and state interventions around the role of religious groups in reducing conflict. It has been a pleasure to meet so many different organisations from different faiths with a like-minded approach to making positive change.

Armenian Artists can get support to commercialise their work with the business Incubator ArtBox.
Application deadline early 2022.

Artbox Creative Incubator launch event Introducing ... Artbox! Creators across all art fields are invited to join us on November 23 at 7pm (Yerevan time) for the digital launch of our cutting-edge...

It has been fascinating to write a consortium tender for the EU4Independent Media EU framework call this past month with consultancy firm DAI. The Programme will cover the six Eastern Partnership countries and provide support to independent and investigative media outlets, entertainment and children's programme production companies with a welcome emphasis on supporting media management and media finance.
(Photo below is Georgia's first ever newspaper printing press).

It's very nice to be invited onto the editorial board of the Batumi Arts University's fifth international scientific conference on contemporary culture and art 23-24 October 2021.

It has been a fascinating week as facilitator of six global conversations for the EU's GERIS programme exploring religion in society across a wide range of topics, including Living Together, Diversity in Education and Resolution and Transitional Justice.

It has been a privilege to learn about the work of so many faith and non-faith activists around the world.

It was great to attend the EU's Global Exchange on Religion in Society launch today. Projects-Direct produced the text of the winning tender and will lead some of the global discussions next week on the themes of Living Together, Diversity through Education and Reconciliation.

🙂 Spent a great morning workshopping 20 Romanian creatives in project design, budgeting and proposal writing. Many thanks to Tribul Artistic in Timisoara for facilitating the event. https://tribulartistic.ro

Link to our UN report:

Evaluation Reports | UNECE All UNECE evaluation reports, management responses and progress reports published after 1 October 2014 are posted below. Programme-wide Issue Date Evaluation Title Terms of Reference (ToR) Report Link Management Response Progress Report July 2019 Gender Mainstreaming in UNECE ToR Report Management R...

Our second UN report will be uploaded to the UNECE open website later this month.
It includes an evaluation of the UN's view of how COVID-19 has impacted trade in: Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Ro Moldova and Serbia.

As part of our work for the UN, I attended the presentation of the report: Impact of Covid on Armenian Cross-border Trade today. It was interesting to hear how MSMEs are coping under the current pandemic and how they are being supported.

I attended an informative Zoom Conference today to mark the end of the EU-Turkey Intercultural Dialogue with the Yunus Emrei Institute.
It’s been an honour to be part of the training programme.

I held a great live Zoom training session today with the Yunus Emrei Institute offices across Europe on identifying good entry points for cultural development programmes.