quality and international significance of activities proposed, their appeal for the international audience, uniqueness and sustainability of partnerships between cultural institutions from different sectors, plans for communication and production, strategy of audience development.

Rules for becoming a Partner of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022

1. Concepts used in the rules

The Call to submit the applications (hereinafter the Call) is a document that specifies areas and priorities of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 partner projects as well as the requirements for costs and project quality, estimated outcomes, requirements for applications, project evaluation criteria, procedure for submitting the applications and other necessary documents.

Working group of partnership project evaluation (hereinafter the PEG) is formed in accordance with the decree issued by the Director of Kaunas 2022. It consists ofKaunas 2022 employees, experts of the municipalities of Kaunas City and Kaunas District as well as external experts. Its aim is to evaluate the projects taking into consideration the project evaluation criteria, suggest amount of the budget allocated for the coproduction of Kaunas European Capital of Culture programme, prepare project application evaluation reports and submit information about project evaluation to the Director of Kaunas 2022 VšĮ.

Application of partnership programme is a document submitted by the applicant that aims to become a partner of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 programme.

The Applicant is a legal entity that plans to implement the project in cooperation with Kaunas 2022 VšĮ.

Project – the entirety of purposeful activities taking place within a specified period of time, the aim of which is to