This year the Foundation has given the financial support for 25 astonishing proposals with focus on culture from across the EU for a Research and Development Grant. ULA submitted its proposal “Library-Supported Tourism in Kiev” on international Idea Camp that took place from 23 to 25 October 2014 in Marseille (France) and further was offered to be awarded with grant to support the project.

There were 25 awarded applicants including us that have been selected among the 50 participants of the contest. Thus, ULA will fulfil the project aimed to develop customised Kiev city tours in 2015. The State Youth Library of Ukraine will serve as a co-working space to host the task force charged with the design of contest for walking tours as well as the virtual ones.

The project will provide tours content development in Ukrainian and English for local residents as well as Ukrainian and international tourists, guides’ training and modern library utilization as “the third space” with a task force charged with the project implementation using the available library resources.

Keep up with information as far as the new project is concerned on the ULA web site and social networks, join us and we’ll gladly meet you on new and interesting tours!

The project is expected to go beyond Kiev and comprise other regions of Ukraine as well where the caring ULA members are concerned with the further development of library-supported tourism.

We wish the new year would bring success to the project team!

Such project implementation by the Ukrainian Library Association (ULA) could become possible due to its winning in contest of projects by the European Cultural Foundation, ECF. The project is directed towards the tourism development in Kiev and has information support by the Tourism Department of Kyiv Municipal State Administration.

The participants of the creative session were divided into the four teams and each of them submitted the tourist route that would be developed during February-March 2015 using the available library resources.

As a result the following 4 tourist routes have been selected:

- “Lost in time” (ethnographic tour-adventure). District: Shevchenkivskyi. The group supervisor: Uralova Olexandra (travel agency “Mysterious Kiev”).

- “Pankivshchyna”: from Latin Quarter to Ukrainian Parnassus” (sightseeing local tour). District: Shevchenkivskyi. The group supervisor: Polyova Victoria (ULA administrative office).

- “Terra Incognita in Kiev center” (cultural and art tour). District: Shevchenkivskyi (Tatarka). The group supervisor: Hrebelnyk Nataliya (Library named after T. Shevchenko of Central Library System of Shevchenkivskyi District).

- “Knowledge getting over the turns of the centuries”. District: Holosiivskyi District. The group supervisor: Vynohradova Lyudmyla (State Youth Library of Ukraine).

In April 2015 there will be on-line service providing information about tours and registration for tourist routes.

Project partners: Tourism Department of Kyiv Municipal State Administration, Daryna Zholdak Foundation.

Click here to find the event photos (https://www.flickr.com/photos/51235748@N04/sets/72157650260371708/).

Keep up with information on the Ukrainian Library Association web site www.ula.org.ua.