Ortaklaşa brings together municipalities and civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the field of arts and culture in Türkiye to produce local cultural policies in equal dialogue and collaboration with one another. The links extending to Europe unite the experiences of varying scales within a common ecosystem and open the conception of cooperation to the actual needs of the field.
In its first phase, the Ortaklaşa Sub-Grant Programme was met with great interest from across Türkiye. We received 252 project proposals from 44 cities involving 187 local governments ranging from metropolitan to district municipalities.
In this process, we provided a total of 1.3 million euros in sub-grants to 13 projects realised in collaboration of 13 CSOs and 18 municipalities. These partnerships on the local level sowed the first seeds of a new working model based on trust.
