The organizing committee for the candidacy of Belgrade for the European Capital of Culture 2020 will officially present its candidature to the European Commission in Brussels by the end of its term, which expires on December 31, committee's chairman and deputy city secretary for culture Aleksandar Pekovic announced.
At the Thursday presentation of the Belgrade 2020 project strategy, he said that in modern history, Belgrade has not had a significant strategic project in the field of culture.
“The initiative for Belgrade to run for the European Capital of Culture 2020, which is the most important European project in this field, was unanimously supported by the Belgrade City Council late last year. The first recommendation of the European Union was that the candidacy project should provide a consensus, since it takes a long time and there will inevitably be a change of political factors,” Pekovic said.
According to head of the expert team Milena Dragicevic Sesic, the realization of a “Belgrade's cultural model” will begin as early as next year. The strategy for long-term development of Belgrade's culture until 2020 is divided into ten thematic units comprising all art disciplines, both traditional and contemporary.
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