4image Association has been established in 2003. aiming to evolve a Croatian culture, revolve and promote Croatian identity throughout the country and abroad. Association 4image has been active since 2003. Our main objective is to promote the development of applicable culture in Croatia, as well as to promote Croatian cultural identity in country and outside national borders.  From very beginning of the creation, 4image has gathered a small team formed by art historians, historians, artists and linguists professionally involved and engaged in creation of cultural programs, strategics and  development in their  locally  based cultural institutions.  Essential idea was to expand the availability of "art" and cultural events among art enthusiasts, but also to indirectly expand network by including new consumers making art accessible to all. Given the rich cultural and artistic heritage that Croatia has, we think that it would help in spreading awareness and knowledge about value of cultural heritage, and the strengthening of local and national identity. We believe that by organizing various cultural events (exhibitions, lectures, workshops) the people have the opportunity to acquire new knowledges and practices, which are indirectly transferred to everyday life and wider range of education in community.


Our previous projects were focused on non-formal education  and development of culture and creativity in community, which makes us closely related to questions addressed to this project - improving life for youngsters in urban areas and in small cities. Until now we have organized several artistic exhibition  and workshop projects  nationwide ("Downtowners Trogir" on the Adriatic cost and Zagreb). In 2008, we founded Art & Art Trade Web Portal "Maidendoo".  Croatian accession to the EU has allowed us to develop partnerships and project network outside Croatia through life long learning project (Folk art),  and hopefully  soon youth projects. From very beginning our organization has established a broad network of  formal institutions  partners (Primary and secondary schools, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Drama Academy, Faculty of Landscape Architecture) as well as partners from informal structure, which supports a high  implementation capacity for our artistic event management activities.

Also 4image was working  on project with a group of youngsters in Trogir (island of Čiovo) dealing with isolation problems (especially in winter) with Local Government and School partnership, aiming to encourage young people for more active role in community integration process. Our youngsters (10 of them) are also involved in Youth in action project with Rocher de Palmer, Bordeaux organization in project called Youth Urban Participation. It deals with video and interwiew with people participating in big events on local level to understand how we can use public spaces, and what does it means for young people.

Association 4image is involved in Grudtving project called Folk and art with 4 partner countries (Hungary, Portugal, Finland, Lituania) in which we are working on organizing photo exibitions, making film and video, collaboration with local community on island Hvar. And all our good experience we want to share in sphere of youngstters, to help and provide them better possibilities in urban eviroment.