Since its establishment until now, Progress Foundation has developed a lot of projects, locally as well as nationally and internationally. Click here to see our organizational annual report and find out more on our projects in 2020.

During 2011 and early 2012, Progress Foundation facilitated the participation of 14 librarians from 12 Romanian counties in the digital storytelling training course (DigiTales ToT) organized by Goldsmiths College in the UK. Upon their returning to Romania, the librarian trainers trained in turn seniors in their communities and so we were able to achieve three […]

„Schollar performance no matter the social level”, a winning project proposal submitted in the RSC competition “Raiffeisen comunitati”, was implemented in the school year of 2013 – 2014 to help 60 students in classes VII and VIII of the Secondary School “Lucian Blaga” University and the Gymnasium No. 7 from Viisoara – Bistrita – with […]

Silver Stories is a project funded by the European Commission, Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation program, which follows-up the DigiTales – Extending creative practices project (2011-2012, financed through Grundtvig program) and the national program DigiTales, financed by IREX (2013). The main objectives of the project are to create a new digital storytelling course and to deliver […]

My secret Bistrita, a winning concept promoted in the framework of the Casa Ema vrea sa te miste project competition, was implemented from June to November 2014. The project goal was to create a collaborative map of the city by collecting selfies made by fellow citizens in various town parts that they’re found of. In […]

According to the tradition of Transylvania villages, the community caterers (socăcițele) are present to all the major events in the village life – weddings, christenings and almsgivings. The objective of the project “SOCĂCIȚELE – Community Caterers” is to contribute to the discovery and promotion of community catering art (socăcit) of the upper Somes Valley, mainly […]

Third place for active citizenship (in short, The Third Place) project is financed through EEA Grants 2009-2014, NGO Fund programme. The project goal is to set up a comprehensive system that facilitates citizens’ participation in practicing democracy by forming active citizens, creating spaces that protect and promote democratic values (“democracy nests”) ​​and by conducting integrity […]

The idea proposed by the “The third space of the community” concerns the formation of active citizens and the arrangement in 6 public libraries in the Republic of Moldova, of spaces – nests of democracy – that encourage the learning of civic behaviors, debate local issues and take initiative to solve them. The nests of […]

Through the New Challenge for Public Libraries (New Lib) project, we aim to create a transnational community formed around active public libraries in the European countries involved, to share good practices in testing the human centered design methodology, in conceptualizing innovative services and in the active involvement of citizens / audience in their creation. Period: […]

Școala de Reporteri SDG project aims to motivate and educate children from rural areas to inform, produce and publish relevant video and audio material for the localities they live in, promoting the 17 Global Objectives from the 2030 agenda. Thus, they discover what the Global Goals, SDGs are and why are they important to their […]