Online Hub artiviststafete.hub

2021-2023

“ARTIVIST STAFETË'' is a project funded under the grant for Support to Active Citizenship by the European Commission and is funded by the European Union. The project is implemented locally by Dutch organisations MasterPeace and Stichting art.1, in partnership with Open Mind Spectrum Albania (OMSA) and ACT for SOCIETY Center. This project aims to improve the environment for active citizenship and civic participation by providing civil society sector organisations (CSOs) with tools to grant marginalised groups and side-lined voices in Albania with instruments to infiltrate the mainstream narrative and democratic dialogue at a local, Albanian and European level. Furthermore, the project seeks to stimulate activism through capacity building, and by creating a nation-wide network of civil society organisations advocating for increased democratic representation of minorities.
The project will have both an online component as well as a physical component. Part of the latter, is the ONLINE HUB, a multi-disciplinary space in which participants of training, CSO employees, and the general public can produce, disseminate and interact with the project’s creative, intellectual and dissemination outputs and activities. As such, the ONLINE HUB space is essential to the project’s effective execution and successful completion. The space is projected as a meeting and mingling space for actors from the civil society sector, activists, artists and the general public. All participating organisations connect through the online creative hub platform which enables them to share experiences, bond and work, equipping themselves in soft skill competencies through access to our toolkit with filmmaking and podcast features, as well as key editing software (Adobe Premiere for film, Audacity for podcast and Canva for Walls of Connection). Thus, all participating organisations engage in an online user-friendly platform which functions as both archive as well as forum for the project. The realised products (films, podcasts) will be also hosted on the platform, driving traffic to it from diverse dissemination tools. Also, the online hub is open for any individual, activists, artist or CSO in Albania who wishes to partake in it.