ABOUT US
The Cultural Diplomacy International Institute (CDI) NGO brings together professionals with significant experience in implementing successful projects in the cultural, artistic, museum and media spheres, cultural and public figures, and proactive citizens from Ukraine and abroad.
The Cultural Diplomacy International Institute began its activities de jure in 2017, but de facto much earlier: a private cultural initiative of the Kyiv gallery “KalitaArtClub” together with colleagues representing various branches/niches of culture and different (both public and private) cultural institutions, for several years in a row cooperated to implement common
cultural events.
Such cooperation clearly demonstrated the social rather than commercial orientation of the organized projects and in June 2017 received the formal structure - NGO CDI.
The Cultural Diplomacy International Institute is an organic component of the civil society and its systematic work in developing Ukraine as an independent democracy.
The Cultural Diplomacy International Institute is an organic component of the civil society and its systematic work in developing Ukraine as an independent democracy. At the heart of CDII work is the comprehension that the developed culture is the basis of statehood, the key to its success both inside and outside the country, and the common world cultural space is a vector in which Ukrainian culture should develop.
We also consider as our duty / task to tell about achievements of the Ukrainian culture, which do not "lie on the surface" and which for one reason or another are not approached by the broader population in order to fix in the minds of Ukrainians a certain basis of the national culture. Cultural diplomacy begins within the country.
CDI activities are financed by grants, charitable donations, contributions from the corporate and private sponsors.
CDI has the experience of cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ukrainian Institute and the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, foreign diplomatic missions in Ukraine and Ukrainian missions abroad, Ukrainian and foreign NGOs, business, charitable foundations and individuals.