We wanted to equip local community organisers and stakeholders with the knowledge and toolkit to organise local communities’ events, activities in challenging times: a good answer has an effect on the mental health of the community, also contributes to the community cohesion. Our project focuses on community organisers from the field of culture, but knowledge can be used in other fields as well.
COVID brought unexpected challenges in every aspects of our lifes. For the subject of our proposal we chose cultural activities, because during COVID lockdown these activities had to be redesigned in a significant level. During the project implementation we were focusing on these changes. Although COVID lockdown and crisis seems to be over, but we have a lots of lessons learned from this crisis: - Lack of experience for handling unexpected crisis situations by both the goverment/local governments and the local communities. - Local communities have fast and flexible reaction at local level - There is no "best answer" for the crisis situation, but there are several very good answers. In this project we collected all the lessons learned during COVID crisis, good practices for answering the needs of local people during crisis, and also we created a learning content for similar crisis situations. During the project implementation we faced two new crisises: war in Ukraine and economic regression with energy crisis.