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1. Existence of a national strategy

2. Scope and contents

3. Responsible authority for the implementation of the strategy

4. Revisions/updates

Existence of a national strategy

A Strategy for Culture and National Heritage have been drafted for the period 2014-2020 and reviewed in 2016 for the period 2016-2020, including objectives to raise youth participation to culture, to support young creators and cultural entrepreneurs. However, the Government never adopted the strategy formally. Informally, the strategy was used to guide the cultural policies until March 2020, the beginning of restrictions generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Youth Strategy 2024-2027 inclus a specific objective facilitating and supporting young people's access to quality cultural activities

Scope and contents

The specific objectives of the National Youth Strategy 2924-2027 in the area of culture includes the following planned measures:

• Stimulating the interest of young people in capitalizing on the cultural and tourist potential of the country;
• Supporting, stimulating and rewarding the creativity and performance of young people in various fields of art, culture and creative industries.

Responsible authority for the implementation of the strategy

The Ministry Labour, Family, Youth and Social Solidarity is the main government authority responsible for the implementation of the National Youth Strategy 2024-2027, but cooperation is planned with the Ministry of Culture.

Revisions/updates

Before the current National Youth Strategy 2024-2027, the National Youth Strategy 2015-2020 included two specific objectives in the area of culture: to facilitate youth access to quality culture and cultural creation

• to improve funding of cultural activities

Planned actions included:

1. Boost youth interest in exploiting local cultural traditions, including through training in traditional trades (arts, crafts);
2. Stimulate youth interest in reading and literary creation;
3. Support and stimulate youth creativity and performance in various creative industries (advertising, visual arts, performing arts, research and development, software, etc.);
4. Promote, support and reward the work of young talented artists and technical-scientific innovators; encourage intercultural education both through traineeships and learning experiences in other countries (youth exchange programmes) and by providing opportunities for getting to know the culture of national ethnic minorities;
5. Protect children and youngsters from the risks posed by new media usage, particularly through relevant skills development, while recognising the benefits and opportunities that such media can offer to young people;
6. Facilitate access to quality culture for rural youth through special measures aimed at local cultural participation;
7. Offer support to youth-oriented forms of cultural expression, reflecting young people’s concerns and interests;
8. Grant youth NGOs  projects that tap into the tourist and cultural potential of the country;
9. Enhance media and online (social media) promotion of non-formal training and education opportunities;
10. Encourage the private sector to contribute to the financing of cultural events;
11. Launch national programmes aimed at discovering and promoting highly creative young people in cultural-artistic areas and at granting scholarships to valuable young artists;
12. Ensure profitable financial arrangements for the participation of talented young people from disadvantaged background in the activities carried out by professional arts training institutions;
13. Provide financial support to the establishments which promote cultural and artistic activities for youth (youth centres, student cultural centres, youth NGOs) in order to ensure better and more attractive conditions for youth participation in such activities.