COURAGE

povezovanje zbirk

The Keston Institute was initially founded as the Center for the Study of Religion and Communism with a mission to disseminate informed information on the conditions of religious liberty in communist countries. After being renamed the Keston Institute in 1971, the organization’s operation included the acquisition and maintenance of an archive.

The Kondas Centre of Naive Art was established in 2003 as a branch of the Sakala Centre, managed by the town administration of Viljandi. The Kondas Centre is engaged in researching and popularising naive and outsider art. Besides the permanent exhibition, where most of Kondas' paintings are presented, temporary exhibitions also take place in five different rooms.

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation was established in 1955 as the Society for Christian-Democratic Civic Education. Since 1964, it has borne the name of the co-founder of the Christian-Democratic Union and the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. The basic principles of this foundation are encapsulated in the words freedom, justice, and solidarity. Ever since its establishment, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has supported the democratic reconstruction of Germany and the firm alignment of its foreign policy with the trans-Atlantic community of values.  Since the collapse of communism, the Foundation has been a promoter of European unification, guided by the intellectual heritage of the German politician from whom it takes its name. Thus, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation supports the rule of law and the consolidation of democracy in the former communist countries. Its policy is to build partnerships with relevant organisations, groups, and individuals who are agents of change, targeting governmental institutions, political parties, civil society organisations and handpicked elites. Focused initially only the Visegrad countries, which had better chances of integration into the European Union, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation came relatively late to Romania, only in 1999, but ever since then it has been extremely active in supporting the advancement of democratic values in this country. For more on this, see http://www.kas.de/wf/en/; http://www.kas.de/rumaenien/en/