Leading Strategies of the 'DAC People' Program in Budjak

• Author: Tatyana Shevchuk
• Pages: 458-461

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives. Proceedings 2016

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Leading Strategies of the “DAC People” Program in Budjak

Tetyana Shevchuk1

Abstract: The article deals with the prosp ects of the international activities of Izmail State University for

Humanities as a Danube academic consortium partner. The project of DAC pilot implementation o f the

programs “Innovation is Hope” and “Sky is the Limit” within the framework of “DAC People” in Budjak

is presented in the article. Its key components include th e following information: data about the

prominent creative community in Budjak; the project of Budjak Art Center of Craft Excellence of Euro -

regional importance (BACCE) as its integral unit; the challenges of the project and its geography; the

people, involved in the implementation.

Keywords: project; project of Budjak Art Center of Craft Excellence of Euro -regional importance

(BACCE); international activities

This year Izmail State University for Humanities has become the member of the Danube academic

consortium (DAC), the activities of which are aligned with the objectives of the EU Strategy for the

Danube Region (EUSDR). This important partnership of Universities and Corporate partners with

different expertize profiles form the unique Euro-regional integrated ecosystem in the area of the

Danube Delta for integral innovation in the business and academic world. Two main DAC activity

directions are focused on Applied Arts and technologies in dynamically interacting network of

academic institutions, which take into account both single markers and cultural diversity of “Lower

Danube” Euro-region.

Izmail State University got a proposal to develop and implement the program of “DAC People”, based

on the interaction between the creative communities of our region with the academic environment.

The project “DAC People” has two basic components: the program “Innovation as Hope” and “The

Sky is the Limit”. The format of the first one assumes the involvement of the target students in

achievements of the regional creative community to gain the attainments of artistic thinking and craft

skills at the regional level. The second program is aimed at cooperation with children's institutions of

different levels to involve the gifted children to university projects.

The prominent creative community in Budjak is Izmail Municipal Organization of National Union

of Artists of Ukraine (Guide of the Izmail Municipal Organization, 2013). Having been created in

2008, it unites the highly qualified specialists in fine arts and craft of the Southern Bessarabia (Kara,

Mitaki, 2015, p. 211-213). It is an integral part of all-Ukrainian Creative Organization (Guide of the

National Union, 2013) which consists of professional artists accepted in accordance with the strict

expert criteria. Its Legal form is: Creative Community (840); Legal activities: 91.12.0 – activities of

1 P rofessor, PhD, Izmail State University for Humanities, Ukraine, Address: 12, Repin St., C. Ismail, Odesa reg., 68600,

Ukraine Corresponding author: shevchuktat@mail.ru.