INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT j Warsaw,

Presentation plan About project participants Where are we? Planned activities

Project duration and reach May 2013 – December 2014 Voivodeships: Małopolskie, Opolskie, Pomorskie, Warmińsko-Mazurskie

Project 4 voivodeship libraries, 9 county libraries (or their functional equivalents), 36 municipal / commune libraries, in total, including branches – over 150 libraries as well as: representatives of local non-governmental organizations and cultural minorities, local communities. including: 24 libraries from 1st round of the LDP, 1 libraries from the 2nd round of the LDP, 4 libraries from the 3rd round of the LDP.

Where are we? Preliminary model Training program Training courses (action plans are developed) Multicultural activities Final model (a manual)

Where are we? Model Recruitment Press conferences Training VPL + CL Training CP Consultations for CP Activities / mini-projects Conferences – summary

Training for VPL and CP coordinators (3 groups x 2 trainings x 2 days) Małopolskie-Opolskie Group VPL Kraków, VPL Opole, MPL Gorlice, MPL Kędzierzyn-Koźle Trainer: Iwona Kusak Pomorskie Group VPL Gdańsk, MPL Człuchów, MPL Słupsk Trainer: Beata Pawłowicz Warmińskie-Mazurskie Group VPL Olsztyn, MPL Bartoszyce, MPL Ełk, MPL Gołdap, MPL Olsztynek Trainer: Damian Dec

Training for County Partnerships (CP) (9 groups x 4 trainings x 2 days) Each county partnership consists of: CP coordinator (usually municipal library) – 3 people; 3-5 CP members (municipal and commune libraries) – 4 (!) people. Each county partnership may invite to a training cycle two representatives of a minority.

Consultations for CP (for each partnership : 32 hours online and 16 hours on the site) consultations in drafting a multicultural action plan of the county partnership; consultations in implementing the activities (each library implements 4 activities); at least 2 visits of the trainer-consultant in the partnership.

Trainers-consultants for the CP Damian Dec Opolskie Partnership Beata Pawłowicz Człuchowskie Partnership and Słupskie Partnership Magdalena Popłońska-Kowalska Bartoszyckie Partnership and Gołdapskie Partnership Lena Rogowska Ełckie Partnership and Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielskie Partnership Małgorzata Tur Gorlickie Partnership and Olsztyńskie Partnership

5 Polish-Norwegian mini-projects 5 Norwegian libraries will run mini-projects in cooperation with libraries from Poland; 25 librarians from Poland will have an opportunity to participate in a study tour to Norway; 15 librarians from Norway will visit Polish libraries; participants of this module will be selected in a contest (spring 2014).

Project partners Multilingual Library in Oslo, County Library in Buskerud, County Library in Hordaland, County Library in Oppland, Public Library in Bergen, Public Library in Trondheim.

Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants and co-financed by the Polish funds.