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Angola Contemporary Dance Company Project receives EU funding

The Association of the Contemporary Dance Company of Angola was chosen by the Diversity initiative - an activity that is part of the project "PALOP-TL PROCULTURE - Promotion of Employment in Income Generating Activities in the Cultural Sector in the PALOP and East Timor", financed by the European Union - to receive funding. This amount, which can go up to 20 thousand euros, aims to promote "cultural projects that aim to produce goods and services with economic value and social and cultural meaning".

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"23 applications were submitted to the competition and the jury unanimously approved the granting of financial support to the project of the Association of the Contemporary Dance Company of Angola," reveals the Alliance Française de Luanda, in a statement sent to VerAngola.

The Angolan dance project was approved with a score of 75 percent, indicates the score.

The jury was composed of Telmo Gonçalves, representative of Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center, Gabriele Stiller-Kern, representative of the Goethe Institut and Paul Barascut, representative of Alliance Française Luanda.

The Diversity initiative allows grants of up to 20 thousand euros to projects or actions that make use of "creativity, heritage and cultural knowledge and intellectual property as resources to produce goods and services with economic value and social and cultural significance.

The funding is guaranteed by the European Union under the PALOP-TL/EU Programme for 2014-2020, which is confined and managed by Camões, IP and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In Angola, the Diversity program is managed by Alliance Française de Luanda, in partnership with Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center and the Goethe Institut.

The note also indicates that anyone can apply for this funding: "may be individuals, companies or organizations, from the public or private sector, with or without profit, or partnerships established between them, provided they have been resident or registered in the PALOP or East Timor for at least two years and are actually active in these countries and in the cultural sectors".

You can learn more about the applications here.

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