“Closer and Closer”: good neighborhood policy through culture

Lublin is bidding to be the European Capital of Culture for 2016. Taking power and experience from its heritage it wants to show Lublin as a city where culture plays a main role. It also wants to show the eastern EU borderland as one of most fascinating and mysterious part of Europe with a strong culture life, rich history and beautiful nature. The city has also established “Closer and closer” – the Euroregional Information and Cultural Cooperation Centre with a view to providing ongoing support to trans-border cultural cooperation of Lublin, Lutsk in Ukraine, and Brest in Belarus. The Centre operates as an entity of the Municipality of Lublin. It has an important role in bringing cultural institutions and organisations of the three towns together by exchanging information on current cultural events and organising trans-border cultural projects.