BRIEF SUMMARYThe CBC Incubator project aims to establish a joint common space in the Romanian-Hungarian border area that is suitable for connecting the cultural institutions, artists and cultural professionals – mainly in connection with the theatre culture. The project facilitates mutual understanding, stimulates creativity, and contributes to the enrichment of our cultures. Cultural exchanges and artistic creation strengthen the close links between the different culture, cultural organisations, artists and cultural professionals – these processes result in promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. The common Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cultural incubator for performing arts promotes the mobility of artists and professionals in the cultural field and the circulation of artistic expressions beyond national borders. The cultural incubator will play an important role in supporting and fostering creativity that is also the basis for social and technological innovation, and therefore an important driver of sustainable growth, competitiveness and jobs in the border area. The improvement of partnership in performing arts has a direct and measurable effect on the attractiveness of the Romanian-Hungarian border region – both during the implementation of the common cross-border cultural activities planned within the project and after the project completion. OBJECTIVESThe main overall objective of the project is to strengthen the attractiveness of the Romanian-Hungarian border area by creating, using and promoting common values in performing arts.Specific objectives:- Increasing cultural mobility in Romanian-Hungarian region- Strengthening the joint cultural image of the Romanian-Hungarian region DIRECT AND INDIRECT RESULTS- Improved conditions of tangible and intangible elements of the joint cultural heritage- Increased touristic attractiveness of the affected cultural facilities- Underpinning a joint and integrated tourism destination, attracting visitors both internally, and also from outside the eligible area- Increased number of visitors and visitor nights- Strengthened tourist industry of the Romanian-Hungarian border areaJUSTIFICATION - COMMON CHALLENGES TO TACKLEThe theatrical culture of the border region is traditionally very strong. The Romanian-Hungarian border area has a very important role in the performing arts: it can be named as a “contact zone” of different types, approaches and initiatives of performing arts. All county seats have at least one theatre with high-quality performances. Performing arts are significant elements of the common cultural heritage that is artificially divided by the border. Recently, there is not any cultural institution – meeting point – that are able to ensure appropriate infrastructural and professional background to mutually protect, develop and share common values of performing arts. The cooperation between theatres operating in the border area are partially random, nonformalized, although performances create a unique opportunity for getting to know each other's culture. This lack of interconnection between theatres hinders not only the mobility of artists cultural professionals, but it reduces also the number of cross-border theatregoers.Culture plays an important role in EU-level policies and partnerships, although it remains a responsibility of Member States – especially therefore, it has a particular importance to focus on creating and sharing common cultural values involving the whole Romanian-Hungarian border region.TARGET GROUPS AND IMPACTSKey direct target groups can be divided into two main categories:- cultural professionals can actually use the cross-border cultural incubator and its services for creating new performances, learning new methods and sharing knowledge especially relating to performing arts;- general public can be defined as consumer of culture: they can be different groups of tourists, local inhabitants, population of the entire Romanian-Hungarian border region.BUDGETThe total eligible budget of the project (including Concept Note and Full Application) is € 7,481,743 (ERFD amount: € 6,359,482), from which Municipality of Debrecen has a budget of € 5,917,800 €, Csokonai Theatre € 593,550 and Szigligeti Theatre € 970,393.MAIN ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUTSCN phase: main task is the common elaboration of the Full Application with every detail of the implementation (schedule, investment, management, communication and other activities, detailed budget, liquidity, etc.) and related supporting documentation,FA phase:- establishing Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cultural incubator for performing arts in Debrecen,- infrastructural development of Szigligeti Theatre in Oradea,- implementation of common cross-border cultural activities coordinated by the Csokonai Theatre (e.g. cross-border workshops for minority theatres of the Romanian-Hungarian region improving competences in amateur dramatics, exchange of plays between theatres operating in the border region, Romanian-Hungarian video archive for performing arts, cross-border workshops for screenwriters and actors, conferences and interactive exhibition about theatrical culture),- project management, communication as well as other compulsory and/or complementary activities to achieve the project’s objectives.Based on this well-grounded intervention logic, the activities and outputs clearly contribute to the achievement of the project specific objectives and definitely link to the program output indicator: number of visitors in the affected cultural attractions will be at least 18,428 for the year following project completion.