Are you looking for new partners in Europe or interested in transnational co-operation with countries outside the European Union? The project “Tandem” makes it possible for cultural institutions from all EU member states to get a profound insight into the cultural scenes of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. The project “Tandem“, which was developed by the European Cultural Foundation (www.eurocult.org) and MitOst (www.mitost.org) is carried out together with Centre for Cultural Management Lviv (www.kultura.org), Soros Foundation Moldova (www.soros.md) and Culture Action Europe (www.cultureactioneurope.org). It aims at building new and long-term collaborative relations between select organisations from European Union countries and cultural key players from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Selected institutions will send one cultural manager each, who will form a tandem with a partner from the Republic of Moldova or Ukraine. Each tandem has the task to plan a joint entry to the concluding festival. Mutual fourteen-day working visits to partner organisations offer participants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the environment and cultural practice of organisations in the partner country and get an insight into the cultural scene of the tandem partner’s city, region and country. The working visits will be completed by joint workshops and evaluation meetings attended by all project participants, creating an opportunity for exchange with other people, in addition to the tandems. The project will end with a festival each in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine in May 2012. Make your organisation a part of a new European cultural network and build long-term cooperation with a partner organisation from Ukraine or the Republic of Moldova during a one-year collaborative effort! The project will be launched by study trips to both countries for which employees of cultural institutions that are interested in participating in the project “Tandem“ may apply until February 15th, 2011. Find out more at the project’s website on www.mitost.org. Related links and documents: • Tandem website • Call for participation • MitOst