ARS DOR Profile

General data: ARS DOR is a non-governmental, non-political organization, founded in 2002 and registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova under number 2111.

Mission: ARS DOR is a Centre of Art and Professional Development that promotes culture as an important factor for political, social, economical and cultural reintegration of Moldovan society to the European platform. The mission of ARS DOR is to contribute to development and promotion of the cultural sector of the Republic of Moldova, bringing it in line with the European standards.

Vison: We believe that in 2015 ARS DOR will be a leader in cultural life of Moldova becoming a Centre of Art for Professional Development:

Focusing on Black Sea Region
Providing consulting services and training programmes for cultural actors
Elaborating and implementing cultural policies
Initiating and coordinating international cultural projects
Being a regional European platform providing information and analysis on culture

Area of specialty: ARS DOR carries out activities meant to consolidate the cultural sector of the Republic of Moldova, promoting the modern decentralized cultural policies, as well as projects meant to involve the cultural sector in resolving social and economic problems of the community and society. The Association offers trainings and education in professional development, organizes advocacy and lobby campaigns, public discussions, provides consulting in the field of cultural policies and art management for the cultural sector and the local administration bodies, holds international conferences, trains artists in the field of art promotion by means of information technologies, organizes creative camps, exhibitions, workshops, social charity campaigns etc.

ARS DOR Association unifies and presents a new generation of Moldovan culture experts, art managers, curators, artists, trainers and intellectuals. Starting from 2002, ARS DOR has been implementing socio-cultural projects meant for the society revival through culture, creating an alternative for the youth from various cultural fields.

Context: ARS DOR provides consulting and develops training and education programs in the field of cultural management. At present, the training market offers a wide range of development opportunities, since the niche of culture services is almost free. There is an opportunity to develop new products in terms of the EU extension and access of the local organizations to the European funds, while ARS DOR affiliation with various European structures and networks enlarges our area of interests, experts and information resources. The elections of July 2009 and coming to power of the democratic forces brought visible changes to development of the Moldovan cultural sector, thus encouraging non-governmental organizations in the field of culture to participate in development and implementation of the cultural policies and strategies.

In June 2006, ARS DOR Association with the support of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (UNESCO) launched the International Project “Eurointegration through Art” with the mission to contribute to the process of the European integration through art. Artists from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia and Latvia were selected to become Ambassadors for Eurointegration through art and to express their view of the role of artist and importance of culture in the process of European integration.

The Project was nominated for AEBR Cross Border Award “Sail of Papenburg” 2006 – an example of the intercultural dialogue and trans-border cooperation, while the European Parliament and Heinz-Schwarzkopf Foundation (Germany) nominated it for the “Young European of the Year 2006” award.

ARS DOR shall become a leader on the Moldovan market of training services in the field of culture due to its experts, technical resources, well-thought strategy, strong advertising campaign and flexible pricing policy.

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Planul Strategic al Asociatiei ARS DOR

ARS DOR este un Centru de Artă şi Dezvoltare Profesională ce promovează cultura drept o resursa importanta pentru re-integrarea politică, socială şi economică  a societăţii Rep. Moldova la platforma europeană. ARS DOR are misiunea să contribuie la dezvoltarea si promovarea sectorului cultural din Republica Moldova ajustindu-l la standardele europene.

In anul 2010 a fost definitivat lucrul asupra Planului Stratetegic de Dezvoltare al Asociatiei ARS DOR. Acest Plan este rodul unui proces participativ si interactiv al Asociatiei ARS DOR implicînd membrii organizaţiei, ai stafului, a bordului etc. Planul Strategic este conceput pe durata  2010-2015 si va fi revizuit constant pentru a evalua şi monitoriza scopurile strategice in concordanţă cu mediul şi factorii interni şi externi. Un aport deosebit in procesul elaborarii teoretice si practice a Planului Strategic l-a avut  proiectul-pilot ”Viziuni de viitor: politica culturală a Republicii Moldova de la schimbări la viabilitate” (01 ianuarie 2007 – 01 septembrie 2010) şi proiectul ”Consolidarea capacităţilor de dezvoltare în Moldova prin fortificarea sectorului cultural” (1 octombrie 2007 – 31 decembrie 2010) realizate de Fundatia Soros Moldova in parteneriat cu Fundatia Culturala Europeana cu sprijinul financiar al Programului MATRA al Ministerului de Externe al Olandei. In procesul elaborarii Planului Strategic Asociatia ARS DOR a beneficiat de asistenţă, instruire si consultanţă a numeroşi experţi naţionali si internaţionali în domeniul politicilor culturale si a art managemetului: Irina GRABOVAN (Moldova), Victoria TCACENCO (Moldova), Veaceslav REABCINSCHI (Moldova), Claudia CRĂCIUN (Moldova), Corina RĂCEANU (România), Lidia VARBANOVA (Canada), Johanna KIEVIET (Olanda), Antonio RUSSO (Spania), s.a.. Trainingurile de instruire, seminarele si conferintele au avut loc atit in Moldova cit si în Olanda, in perioada iunie 2007 – Decembrie 2010 contribuind esential la cristalizarea metodologiei si conceptiei acestui Plan Strategic.

Conceptual si structural Planul Strategic al Asociatiei ARS DOR are la baza manualul Dr. Lidia VARBANOVA: ”Planificarea strategică pentru organizaţiile din sectorul cultural”.

In acest sens am dori să aducem sincere multumiri Fundatiei Soros Moldova, Fundatiei  Culturale Europene si tuturor pertenerilor, trainerilor, expertilor pentru contribuţia adusa la consolidarea capacitatilor Asociatiei ARS DOR şi la dezvoltarea sectorului cultural din Republica  Moldova.

Ghenadie Sontu

Presedinte ARS DOR