cities and cultures, helping to better understand the development of the city of Kaunas and its District.

Things to be considered when evaluating the project: how does the project contribute to the development of understanding and mutual knowledge of different city cultural communities, European cultures and countries as well as the cultural diversity, participating ethnic communities, artistic quality of projects.

Heritage programme Modernism for the Future (field of the Call)

The aim of the programme is to promote the relevance of modernist architectural heritage in Kaunas, Kaunas District, Lithuania and Europe, becoming an active member of the European modernist city network; increase awareness of local people about the modernism; rally the local community and professionals and join the international networks in order to present and open to Europe the modernist heritageof Kaunas and Kaunas District; create a contemporary vision of the city and its District through various creative means of heritage interpretation.

The title of the European Capital of Culture has given Kaunas and Kaunas District a powerful stimulus to create a success story of modernist heritage protection. There are over 6000 modernist buildings remaining from the interwar period in Kaunas and its District, yet a large part of it is in poor shape and does not receive the attention neither from the public nor the private sector. What can we do to change it? First of all, we have to strengthen the emotional connection between the City and District residents and the heritage, include small communities into the process of creative interpretation of architecture and the search for