Anna Lindh Foundation

Next Page Foundation

National Network

Bulgaria

Address

60 Ekzarh Iossif Str. Sofia Bulgaria

Country

Bulgaria

City

Sofia

Street address 2

60 Ekzarh Iossif Str.

Telephone

+359/2/9833117

E-Mail

info@npage.org

Year of Establishment

2001

Contact Person1

Yana Genova

Contact Person 2

Pavlina Doublekova

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Arts

General Information

The Next Page Foundation’s main office is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. It works in close partnership with international organizations and local partners in 25 countries. The Foundation is governed by a Governing Board, an executive director and a number of advisory committees. It also cooperates with a vast network of international experts. The Foundation was founded as the first spin-off organization of the OSI Information Program. In the beginning, the Foundation was implementing a strategy largely based on the twofold strategic approach taken by the former OSI publishing programs, that is, to support content provision (e.g. translations) and to create the conditions under which quality content can be published and distributed (e.g. infrastructural projects). Since late 2004, Next Page has began positioning itself and operating more independently. This coincided with the enlargement of its geographical area of activities and entering into a new and challenging area – the Arab speaking region.

Mission and Objectives

The activities of Next Page Foundation are based on the premise that access to knowledge and information is crucial for people’s participation in shaping the societies they leave in, and for promoting intercutural understanding. The Foundation thus aims at helping the empowerment of underprivileged groups, languages and countries for an equal participation in the global dialogue of ideas. To achieve its aims, Next Page develops cultural programs and projects in the field of books, reading and translations.

Main Projects / Activities

Next Page works in 3 main areas: Arab speaking world (primarily Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan and Morocco), Roma in the world and Eastern Europe/the Balkans. The Foundation develops programs, supporting the translation flows between the languages, left at the “periphery”, prepares surveys on book-publishing and state of translations of contemporary, high-quality literature and implements projects, encouraging the intercultural dialogue through new medias, like graphic novels and comics.