ARI Literature Foundation is partnering with EU Creative Europe Dilemma Academy Project
The main objective of the Dilemma – Dialogue Mobile Academy program is to create a platform that answers the need for a new format for exchange and co-creation between Central/Eastern Europe, Caucasus and other European countries and to fully use the potential of culture as a source of ideas and a means to create new solutions, reinforce social links, forge new solidarities and strengthen our ability to better face current and future challenges. It’s main goals are to:
1. Emancipate, re-define and decolonize the concepts of Central Europe and Caucasus through encouraging the
production and promotion of new artistic and intellectual concepts, narratives and approaches.
2. Develop new practices, expressed through artistic and educational activities involving both ‘people of reflection’ (intellectuals, scholars, writers) and ‘practitioners’ (NGO activists, community leaders, artists, cultural animators).
Dialogue stands for a need for conversation, confrontation and open discussion about the issues and problems that we don’t have ready solutions for, that require common effort and courage to be addressed. Academy means an interdisciplinary space for educational and artistic activities, combining reflection and intellectual ferment with creation of literature and art. Mobile because we carry out the program in different places, getting to know local contexts and creating a fabric of interdependence and co-creation.
Concept of Dilemma Academy has been initiated by the Borderland Foundation but worked out together with cultural organizations and individuals (writers, scholars, cultural managers, translators) from Central European countries and the Caucasus.
The project is supported by EU Creative Europe in the frames of the Dilemma Academy 2025-2026 program. The partners of the project are Borderland Foundation, the Institute for Central European Strategy, PEN Armenia, Literature Initiative Georgia.