We have applied with CODE Kids – Program the future of your community to the Emerging Europe Awards 2022 in the Future-proof Education Initiative of the Year category and we are selected in the top III successful initiatives aimed at improving education and lifelong learning in the digital age. We need your vote to win! We want […]

Dear friends, library professionals, partners and citizens of the world, Our organization is watching with great concern the situation that continues to deteriorate in Ukraine. We must say that, at the beginning of our journey, when we first started to collaborate with libraries, CSOs, and other types of organizations that are neighboring us, in the […]

Notable representatives met and shared innovative ideas for the development of public libraries and local communities at the Librarians for Tomorrow event! The two-day online conference, organized by the Progress Foundation in partnership with the Goethe Institute in Bucharest, brought together presentations of modern projects from public libraries in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, […]

The Progress Foundation in partnership with the Goethe Institute Bucharest invites you to the online event “Librarians for Tomorrow”, on March 24 and 25, 2021, between 10:00 to 13:00. Special guest: Dr. Hannelore Vogt, director of Cologne Public Library, one of the largest library systems in Germany and a debate based on her speech at the […]

The Progress Foundation organizes within the CODE Kids project – Children are coding in public libraries, with the support of CEZ Vanzare, the GREEN TECH APP contest, in order to familiarize children between 10 to 14 years old with concepts related to technology and green energy. What do green technology and energy have in common? […]

6 libraries in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine have started the project “Public libraries as hubs for active citizenship”, implemented by the Progress Foundation, with the support of the Black Sea Trust of Regional Cooperation. This project aims to create a support network, consisting of public libraries and NGOs, which will support the […]

Romanian IT – The global community of Romanian programmers – now stands in Coding for Kids in Libraries – CODE Kid as a project partner. Romanian IT volunteers’ role is to get within local communities in which CODE Kids coding clubs run, and work with children members for new programming abilities development. Training courses will […]

On the 3rd and 4th of July, Progress Foundation facilitated “Volunteers management” workshop from National Center for Librarians Professional Excellency in Chisinau, through the participation of dr. Camelia Crișan. This event aimed at providing the necessary tools to participants which could help in analyzing community issues and finding solutions to solve them. Tackled subjects during […]

Progress Foundation participated as Romania representative among representatives from over 30 countries, at 2017 Next Library Annual International Conference held between 11-14th of June in Aarhus (2017 European Capital of Culture), Denmark. This ‘world class conference for open-minded library innovators and decision makers’ was organized by Aarhus Public Library. Being at its 8th edition, the […]

We have taken part in official events organized with the occasion of first 3 Democracy Nests opening in Republic of Moldavia, located in Law Public Library which is part of „B.P. Hașdeu” Municipal Library from Chisinau, in „D. Cantemir” Rayon Library from Ungheni, and „V. Matei” Rayon Library from Leova. The other three democracy nests […]