/ world as we speak information/ “Solidarity in Tradition” is the identify of the brand new program of Sofia Municipality, which offers monetary help for artists and cultural areas in Sofia. The proposal is made by the chairmen of the teams of GERB Malina Edreva, “BSP for Bulgaria” Kaloyan Pargov and “Patriots for Sofia” Carlos Contrera, in addition to the municipal councilors from GERB Silvia Hristova, Botyo Botev and Georgi Georgiev.
This system offers impartial artists the chance to understand and current on-line initiatives throughout the months of Could and June, for which they may obtain funding within the quantity of BGN 1,000. The second route in this system is oriented in the direction of groups that handle non-public cultural areas. The monetary help for them will likely be within the quantity of as much as BGN 10,000. The preliminary funds of this system is BGN 150,000, to which will likely be added an extra quantity from the remuneration of the members of the supervisory boards and the administration boards of SUSOPF, SOAPI and the Assure Fund for Small and medium-sized enterprises for the interval of emergency.
All the challenge submission and approval course of will occur on-line. Among the many necessities that impartial artists should meet are to have a everlasting or present tackle in Sofia not less than 6 months earlier than the declaration of the state of emergency and to have labored within the metropolis for not less than 1 12 months. Individuals managing cultural areas will need to have a lease for the area, appointed staff on a contract of employment, have canceled occasions for the interval of emergency, and have been beneficiaries or companions of initiatives funded beneath the packages of the Metropolitan Municipality within the final two years. The anti-crisis measure, aimed toward one of many sectors most affected by the state of emergency, is made on the idea of European expertise and foresees quick, lightened and versatile procedures to satisfy the wants of the sector. As a way to assure help for accepted initiatives from the Capital Program “Tradition” and Calendar of cultural occasions of the Council of Ministers, further circumstances are proposed. The cultural operators who’ve received initiatives beneath these packages and haven’t been capable of implement them as a result of declared state of emergency, can have a two-week interval to suggest modifications to them. It’s allowed to carry the occasions on new dates within the second half of the 12 months or to adapt the cultural product for on-line presentation. Expenditure on unrealized initiatives incurred previous to the declaration of the state of emergency can even be recognised, in case they can’t be recovered. As an extra help, the proportion for administrative prices for the initiatives can be elevated from 10 to 25% inside the already allotted funds. As a result of state of emergency and restrictions world wide, the implementation of the second session within the discipline of “Mobility” is suspended, however the third is anticipated to be held. The proposals will likely be voted on on the extraordinary assembly of the municipal council subsequent week and have the help of the GERB-SDS, “Patriots for Sofia” and “BSP for Bulgaria” teams.
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