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Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest:
Located in Bucharest, Romania, Institutul Cultural Roman (ICR - the Romanian Cultural Institute) is Romania's official organisation which promotes Romanian culture and civilisation worldwide. Its Patron is the President of Romania and its Chairman is H.-R. Patapievici. ICR is a non-profit, non-political organisation, open to engage in any form of collaboration and partnership project-work: from government agencies to NGOs and individual artists or cultural promoters. We offer Romanian Courses for foreigners taught by highly qualifed personnel. The Institute is essentially the Romanian equivalent of the British Council or L'Institut Francais for instance, only much younger! Having been set up in 2003, following the restructure of Romanian Cultural Foundation, the Institute has since opened 16 centres worldwide.

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The mission of this centre is to promote Romanian literature abroad, and it achieves this through a variety of means.

About us:
The Romanian Cultural Institute acts as means through which foreign audiences can experience the products of Romanian culture. Cultural exports from Romania are, for the most part, facilitated by the institute’s 16 foreign branches, located in Berlin, Brussels, Budapest (with a subsidiary in Szeged), Istanbul, Lisbon, London, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Venice, Vienna and Warsaw. These are tasked with organising high-visibility cultural events adapted to suit the tastes of foreign audiences, while at the same time ensuring that a balance be maintained between their uniqueness and an international appeal.

The Romanian Cultural Institute has developed extremely close ties with Romanian minorities in neighbouring countries as well as with the Romanian diaspora. It aims to facilitate their efforts to preserve their own cultural identity while living abroad.
Not only does the Romanian Cultural Institute target cultural circles abroad, it is also very much involved in supporting cultural activities in Romania. It achieves this through non-refundable financing programmes, scholarships and courses in Romanian language and culture. These include the CANTEMIR Programme, the ‘Constantin Brâncuşi’ and ‘George Enescu’ scholarships (which take place at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris), residency programmes, scholarships for foreign cultural journalists and research scholarships.

In June 2007, the National Book Centre was set up under the auspices of the Romanian Cultural Institute.

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