Public funding
Budgets from the Albanian Ministry of Culture181 including donations from mainly international organisations and programs:
Ministry of Culture, Total Budget for Ongoing Expenses and Capital Investments
Indicators
The Ministry of Culture182 in 2014 initiated participation in international programmes such as Creative Europe and Traduki183. TRADUKI is a European network that connects Southeast European countries with each other and with the German-speaking world through the means of literature, namely books, translations, festivals, workshops and residency programmes for authors and translators, enabling independent operators and dependent institutions to apply with projects on the same platforms as their counterparts in western states. The total funds absorbed in the last 5 years by independent operators from these two programmes, is € 1,618,425.
The European Commission, based on the Albania- EU agreement, decided in 2014 that Albania’s artists, culture and creative organisations could participate in the Creative Europe programme, Culture and Media subprogrammes. Since 2015, the Albanian Ministry of Culture has paid its yearly membership of 55,000 Euros for the Culture subprogramme and 95,000 euros for the Media subprogramme. The EU has reimbursed this amount by giving 80% of the annual fees until 2020, and for the European Cooperative projects a total of 940,000 euros by supporting 12 literary translation projects with 660,000 euros, and another 280,000 euros to 1 project leader and 3 partners 184
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