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A new project on the power ofSlavonic culture and innovation

PRESENTATION MAGAZINE

International Network for Slavonic Cooperation

SLAVONIC EUROPE · INVESTMENT MEMORANDUM

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SLAVONIC EUROPE - 13 COUNTRIES

MIND & EMOTION

SLAVONIC HOUSE

BENEFITS - WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

INSTRUMENTS - HOW TO ACHIEVE IT?

OUR TEAM

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #9829978 / Sergey PetrovBallet of Mariinsky Theatre from St. Petersburg (Russia) in Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

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The Slavs are the biggest language family on the European continent encompass-ing around 312 million people, totalling more than 20 ethnic groups and counting 13 Slavonic countries. On an international scale, there are more than 360 million Slavs living around the world. They are the only cultural group in Europe whose coun-tries are situated in substantial numbers both inside and outside the boarders of the European Union having even the vast majority of its population outside of the EU boarders. This specific geographic position gives to the Slavs the potential of natural mediators in Europe between East and West and their cultural richness as well as cultural unity in diversity the role of natural cultural integrators of the Eastern part of the European continent.

The Slavonic Europe movement wants to highlight this potential and contribute to it. It wants to present the Unity of Mind & Emotion which lies at the hearth of the Slavonic culture and show its full variety. Without geographic or political bor-ders, the Slavonic Europe movement strives to emphasize the peaceful power of the Slavonic culture as well as its sense for community and endeavours to give back to the Slavs – and hence to whole Europe – their full identity.

Its main purpose is to give the floor to Slavonic thinkers and artists in order to reveal their Unity of Mind & Emotion as well as their sense of cultural cooperation as a specific feature of the Slavonic culture and togetherness. Based upon this unifying quality, Slavonic culture offers multiple ways to acquire humanity as mutual respect and mutual solidarity between individuals and nations – contributing to building up in our times a bridge between East and West and thus a more human and integrated Europe in the 21st century.

In this sense – inspired by Slavonic culture through presentations of spiritual, artistic and scientific creativity – Europe becomes a MASTERPIECE.

Slavonic Europe is a European initiative on Slavonic culture and innovation – a move-ment consisting in connecting Spirit & Arts – Mind & Emotion to acquire humanity as mutual respect and mutual solidarity while aiming at a threefold objective:

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #406943773Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Russian military aircrafts fly in formation, Moscow, Russia

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #430330030 / Agata KowalczykBrass padlock with eternal love declaration in russian hanging among other padlocks on the railing of Love Bridge in Gdansk. Gdansk, Poland

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #276041009Scenic view of bridges on the Vltava river and of the historical center of Prague: buildings and landmarks of old town with red rooftops and multi-coloured walls.

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #144923695Monument to founders of Kiev: Kiy, Schek, Khoryv and Lybid

Creating Slavonic consciousness

To foster the inherent sense of Slavon-ic togetherness and to enhance among Slavonic nations the consciousness of their common cultural heritage and Slavonic identity: Only if its individual parts are stronger integrated, the whole European continent can be more inte-grated – Unity in Diversity.

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Raising international awareness

It is the aim of Slavonic Europe to high-light to the other cultural groups in Eu-rope and around the world the Slavonic cultural richness, diversity and unmis-takable common streak attracting their interest and increasing mutual cooper-ation.

Building bridges across the continent

To contribute via cultural and scientific initiatives to a stronger consolidation of the Slavonic family in Europe and to build on these fix points bridges across the European continent between East and West – while the way to a European togetherness leads by Culture.

SLAVONIC EUROPE – 13 COUNTRIES MIND & EMOTION

Its motto calls on everybody:

CULTURE IS ENERGY!


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The Slavonic Europe project will connect Slavonic and other European people via artistic events, conferences, seminars, workshops and trainings in the Slavonic House which will be located in Brussels, the capital of Europe, in the centre of the European Quarter;

Slavonic Europe will be structured as a Belgian non-for-profit organisation - ASBL;

The above can be depicted as follows:

1. Used as HQ on a rental basis2. In due time, ad hoc events will be organized with ad hoc international partners3. In due time, ad hoc loans can be obtained from ad hoc international partners

SLAVONIC HOUSE

SLAVONIC CONSORTIUM

BALANCE-SHEET PROFIT-LOSS-ACCOUNTASSETS COSTS

Slavonic House 1

Various events 2

13 Slavonic countries Belgium HQ of Slavonic Europe

Operation costsRental costs

Administration costs

EquitySubsidies

Loans 3

Other

Event proceedsSubsidies

Rental incomeSupportive partnerships

income

LIABILITIES REVENUE

FOUNDING PARTNERS

START-UP FINANCING SLAVONIC EUROPE ASBL

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10 SLAVONIC RESTAURANT

9 SLAVONIC EUROPE OFFICES

8 SLAVONIC EUROPE OFFICES

7 SLAVONIC LIBRARY

6 OFFICES: SLAVONIC COMPANIES



3 CONCERT HALL

2 MEETING ROOMS

1 CONFERENCE ROOMS

0Floors ENTRY-RECEPTION

SLAVONIC HOUSE

SIGHTSEEING TERRACE: “SKYLINE OF BRUSSELS”

BASEMENT


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In order to be able to achieve in an optimal way its fixed objectives, the Slavonic Europe project will need strategically designed and situated headquarters. It is for this reason that Slavonic Europe favours a specific and autonomous structure – the SLAVONIC HOUSE. It should be located at the heart of the European Quarter in Brussels and enable the Slavonic Europe project to deploy its maximal effectiveness: Conference and meeting rooms, Slavonic Concert Hall, business and administration offices, the Slavonic Library and the Slavonic Restaurant will become the pivotal points of the Slavonic Europe project in the middle of the Brussels European Area.

The Slavonic House will be the first phenomenon of its art and unique in the world: It will be the coordination and organisation centre of all Slavonic Europe cultural and scientific activities as well as the hosting place of Slavonic companies and as-sociations from all 14 Slavonic nations. In this sense, it will create important syner-gies between culture, science and business resulting in a mutual win-win situation. Moreover, the Slavonic House will open to the whole Slavonic community worldwide and host the Slavonic International Network – physically and virtually.

Finally, the Slavonic House will be a Slavonic Think Tank in Europe developing new and far reaching ideas and forward looking visions for the Slavonic people as well as the whole mankind contributing herewith to the evolution of the overall human-ity. An example might be the initiation and creation of the Slavonic Athletic Games (SAG) – a new international sports competition on purely individual and non-com-mercial basis inspired by the ancient Greek tradition.

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1. Geographically

Being located in the centre of Europe and with key cities like Brussels (capital of Europe) and Antwerp (2nd biggest port of Europe and n°1 diamond hub), Bel-gium is a preferred headquarter location for numerous multinational both insti-tutions and corporations

Belgium is situated in the West of Europe, bordered to the north by the Nether-lands, to the east by Germany and Luxembourg and to the south by France. Its location made it the economic and urban nerve centre of Europe

As a member of the European Union, the EU provides Belgium with a market of more than 500 million customers

Belgium o ers a reliable socio-economic environment for investors Belgium has an open economy and a pro-market government, which makes Bel-

gium an attractive base for many companies active in the European markets Highly skilled multilingual resources and high productivity Belgium is characterized by a large linguistic diversity Being close to numerous instances of the EU, Brussels is an excellent and unique

hub for lobbying and networking purposes High quality of life and good work-life-balance Good legal protection Very attractive expatriate tax regime and tax ruling practice to sustain and further

develop the attractive- ness of Belgium in the international tax scene Belgium o ers attractive tax incentives for certain investments Etc.

BENEFITS WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

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AMSTERDAM2H20

LONDON2H00

PARIS1H20

KÖLN2H00

FRANKFURT3H20

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2. Thanks to the Slavonic Europe project, excellent market perception as key project partner supporting and enhancing its objectives: “Culture is Energy”

The Slavonic Europe project which is focused on culture & science highlight-ing human & peaceful values is the ideal businesscard for an economic partner showing in the centre of Europe beyond its market oriented attitude a rich and multifunctional cultural potential. A “soft power” in the middle of the EU Internal Market.

3. The Slavonic House will be an excellent and unique platform for networking purposes at the heart of the Brussels European Quarter:

Lying ideally at the heart of the European Quarter, the Slavonic House would be-come a First Address Platform in Brussels where in the framework of cultural & scientific events high level European decision makers could meet in a casual and non-formal setting exchanging their views, sharing impressions and even pre-paring new and far reaching initiatives.

4. The Slavonic Europe project will increase your visibility physically, strategically and in Social Media:

Through the Slavonic House and its location in the centre of the Brussels Euro-pean Quarter, your visibility in Brussels and Belgium will substantially increase showing your ambition and open-minded communication approach. Moreover, you can make use of the Slavonic Europe’s Social Media facilities which will be opened for your and will reach thousands of multipliers in the Brussels City area.

5. Allowing for attractive Brussels office rental in a brilliant environment: Relatively cheap office space to rent compared to London, Amsterdam, Paris

and Frankfurt embedded in a fully integrated and exclusive framework of the Slavonic Europe cultural project.

6. The Slavonic Partners Consortium, i.e. investors from the 13 Slavonic countries, will become the Founding Members of the SLAVONIC EUROPE Association - A.S.B.L. - with headquarters in the Slavonic House in Brussels.

As Founding Members, the Slavonic Partners Consortium will get direct influence on the association’s broad guidelines and individual programme ensuring its thematic and strategic coherence. Moreover, the Slavonic Europe association itself will serve as the investors’ best visibility mechanism and cultural business card for the outside world. Last but not least, their Funding Members statute will offer to the investors the possibility to decide on the association’s future evolution towards any other legal or social form and ramification.

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Slavonic Europe will highlight Slavonic culture and science and unite Slavonic and European people by, amongst others, periodically organized wide diversity of events:

1. Diversity of events 1.1 ANNUAL CENTRAL EVENT: BRU13PLUS BRU13 Plus will be the main annual cultural event organised during several

days in the BOZAR and other places in Brussels.

1.2 PUBLICATIONS Editions and translations of new Slavonic literature as well as

Slavonic classics; Establishment of a Slavonic library.

1.3 MUSICAL PERFORMANCES Throughout the year musical performances will be organised.

1.4 EXHIBITIONS Paintings, photographs, sculptures, etc.

1.5 CONFERENCES On culture and sciences inviting VIP speakers from Slavonic countries

and other nations.

1.6 SEMINARS Seminars on specific cultural and scientific topics and expert views.

1.7 TRAININGS For young people from Slavonic countries on EU related topics and

preparatory courses for EU selection procedures.

INSTRUMENTS HOW TO ACHIEVE THE KEY OBJECTIVES?

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Photocredits: Shutterstock / #458076814 / stoyanhSofia, Bulgaria: National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria

Photocredits: © shutterstock.com, photograph Matej KastelicShutterstock / #210012721 / Popova ValeriyaMoscow, Russia: State Tretyakov Gallery is art gallery in Moscow and is foremost depository of Russian fine art in world. Gallery’s history starts in 1856. Hall of artist.© shutterstock.com, photograph symbiot


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PRESIDENT

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR

COMMUNICATIONS DIR. MEDIA DIR. ARTISTIC DIR. EVENTS DIR. RESEARCH DIR.

HR DIRECTOR

Accounts Operations & Recruitment

Treasury

Spokesperson Web Team Events Overview Logistical Coordination Writers

Writers Graphic Designers

Staff Development

SLAVONIC EUROPE ORGANIGRAM - FULL CRUISING SPEED

3. Efficient internal organization

The realisation of the Slavonic Europe project will depend decisively on its efficient and optimally outlined internal organisation structure.

The bellow presented organigram of Slavonic Europe gives an overview over its internal organisational setting in full cruising speed.

2. Spreading Slavonic Culture around the world

At the same time, an important part of the Slavonic Europe activities will result in travelling and spreading the Slavonic culture and its products around the world. Indeed, the following key destinations are considered i.e.:

Moscow (Russia) Saint Petersburg (Russia) Carnegie Hall, New York (US) Prado, Madrid (Spain)

New Delhi (India) Beijing (China) Etc.

La Scala, Milan (Italy) Tokio (Japan) Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) Cape Town (South Africa)

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4. The perfect investor’s match

Slavonic Europe is not looking to make one-shot deals with its sponsors, but is aiming to enter into a long-term and sustainable partnership which is

based on mutual respect, trust and loyalty.

Slavonic Europe commits to find the right partners to join and reinforce the project. Therefore, it is key that a potential investor adheres to the same

genuine values and key objectives as those of Slavonic Europe.

LONG TIME PARTNERSHIP

FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNERS

SLAVONIC EUROPE

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #408666358 / CuriosoSkopje, Macedonia: Warrior on a Horse statue “Alexander the Great” on Skopje Square

Photocredits: Shutterstock / #229212448 / M DOGANAcademy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina, at dusk


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DAVID CHMELIKSE Executive Director

+32 472 34 01 09 [email protected]

KURT DE HAENPKF-VMB BrusselsSE Business Adviser


PETER MÜLLERMED-Agentur MunichSE Communications Director


TOMAS DIMITROVSE Public Relations Director


SERGE BORENSTEINKarlin Group PragueSE Real Estate Adviser

+420 226 251 080 [email protected]

WYTZE RUSSCHENAccess2EuropeSE Strategic Adviser


OUR TEAMIf you have any further questions regarding the Slavonic Europe (SE) project, please do not hesitate to contact the Slavonic Europe core team or visit our website.

WWW.SLAVONIC-EUROPE.ORG

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International Network for Slavonic Cooperation

www.slavonic-europe.org

SLAVONIC EUROPE asblDavid ChmelikRond-point Schuman 2-4Levels 5 & 61040 Brussels, BelgiumTel. +32 472 34 01 [email protected]

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