Small Centres of the World is the program which responds to the needs and challenges of contemporary culture and education.
The problem is the anachronism of culture, limiting its activities to the narrow field of entertainment and festival events.
The problem is culture deepening divisions and narrowing the understanding of identity to sharp national or religious boundaries, thus becoming a base for fundamentalist ideologies.
The problem is the escapism of culture and its exclusive specialization, resulting in a lack of engagement with the public and demanding multidisciplinary cooperation.
As a result, in anti-crisis, development and revitalization programs, implemented both locally and internationally, culture is most often overlooked or marginalized. Also, in the European integration process, culture plays too small a role, and to make matters worse, often a negative one. The project proposes a self-critical approach to this problem, focusing not on pretensions and expectations from the outside (politicians, business, the media, etc.), but on internal and constructive proposals for changes in the environment of cultural people and their workshop of work.
