About CAMINO
CAMINO: Twenty years of cultural enrichment in reunified Europe is a project initiated by the University of Latvia, which aims to celebrate the 20 years of membership of the countries that joined the European Union in 2004 in an innovative, interesting and international way.
CAMINO project has united higher education institutions across the Eastern, Northern and Central Europe in a joint attempt to educate about defining experiences in modern European history and to commemorate EU enlargement by celebrating the year 2004 EU accession. Project aims to enhance the understanding of the Union, its origins, purpose, diversity and achievements and to raise the awareness of the importance of mutual understanding and tolerance for better European integration.
Throughout the year 2024 CAMINO project will deliver a set of events such as an international student photo competition and exhibition; public events for EU20 Celebration; international flashmob “Ode to Joy”; production and screening of a Documentary film on the importance of cultural diversity; development and piloting of a lifelong learning open course on Intercultural Communication and developing a Network of European universities, university culture centres, student unions and other similar units, supporting the participation of university students and employees in different non-formal art and culture education programs and maintaining the presence of culture within the university and local community. The Network will be designed with the aim to expand it across the EU countries and to develop cooperation also with other stakeholders from cultural and creative sectors in order to promote a wide range of quality cultural activities and events, open opportunities for all to take part and to create, strengthening links between culture and education, social affairs, urban policy, research and innovation, etc.
