Global initiative to foster creativity and innovation
The competition awards two prizes outside the main three: the Public Vote prize, allocated as a result of an open online vote, and the Founder’s Choice prize awarded by the Founder of BE OPEN Elena Baturina, international philanthropist and businessperson.
The international jury for Design Your Climate Action has evaluated all the entries over the categories of Raising Resilience and Adaptation, Energy of Change, and Solutions Offered by Nature, and named the winners of the First, Second and Third Prizes.
In June 27 and 28, 2024, BE OPEN Foundation will take part in the MED9 Ministerial Summit for Education for Sustainable Development and the UNECE Forum on ESD: Empowering Youth for Sustainable Futures in Cyprus, two of the most important education and sustainability focused events in the global agenda.
On the 21st of February 2024, the closing day of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability: Development and Innovations, BE OPEN took part in the culminating panel discussion dedicated to the role of international organizations in promoting sustainability aspects.
BE OPEN CHAMPIONS CYPRIOT HANDICRAFTS THROUGH WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN
Philenews
April 2024
BE OPEN FOUNDATION LAUNCHES INITIATIVE IN CYPRUS TO REINVIGORATE TRADITIONAL CRAFTS
Cyprus Business News
April 2024
ELENA BATURINA’S BE OPEN FOUNDATION LAUNCHES EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE IN CYPRUS FOR THE REVITALIZATION OF TRADITIONAL CRAFTS
Cyprus Times
April 2024
TΟ ΙΔΡΥΜΑ BE OPEN ΤΗΣ ELENA BATURINA ΕΓΚΑΙΝΙΑΖΕΙ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΑΖΩΟΓΟΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΙΑΚΩΝ ΧΕΙΡΟΤΕΧΝΙΩΝ
Cyprus News EU
April 2024
CYPRUS HANDCRAFTED HERITAGE – ΜΑΘΉΜΑΤΑ ΜΕ BE OPEN ΚΑΙ CVAR ΠΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΟΎΝ 160 ΠΑΙΔΙΆ
Cyprus Times
April 2024
ΜΑΘΉΜΑΤΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΉ ΧΕΙΡΟΠΟΊΗΤΗ ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΆ ΣΕ ΜΑΘΗΤΈΣ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΎ
Philenews
April 2024
BE OPEN FOUNDATION LAUNCHES INITIATIVE IN CYPRUS TO REINVIGORATE TRADITIONAL CRAFTS
Cyprus Business News
April 2024
CYPRUS HANDCRAFTED HERITAGE ΜΑΘΉΜΑΤΑ ΜΕ BE OPEN ΚΑΙ CVAR ΠΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΟΎΝ 160 ΠΑΙΔΙΆ
Cyprus News EU
April 2024
ΤΟ ΊΔΡΥΜΑ BE OPEN ΤΗΣ ELENA BATURINA ΕΓΚΑΙΝΙΑΖΕΙ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΑΖΩΟΓΟΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΙΑΚΩΝ ΧΕΙΡΟΤΕΧΝΙΩΝ
Showbusiness Cyprus
April 2024
Over two days of April 22 and 23, the Centre of Visual Arts and Research in Nicosia welcomed 160 schoolchildren from the public schools of both the Southern and Northern parts of the island who took part in the educational sessions organized by BE OPEN Foundation dedicated to Cyprus Handcrafted Heritage.
This initiative was devised with the aim of popularization and preservation of traditional Cyprus fabric production techniques. Each session consisted of a lecture on craft-related entrepreneurship and a master-class of traditional Cypriot weaving.
Every month of the first quarter of 2024, works by 20 emerging artists from the countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were posted at the online gallery for the public to select the Regional Artist of the Month.
In March, Yigitali Sattarov, Uzbek artist concerned about global issues, humanity and its future, has become the last of the three candidates for the Artist of the Region and the 500 euros prize, alongside Guzel Zakirova (Kazakhstan) in January and Zhyldyz Bekova (Kyrgyzstan) in February.
On February 21, the closing day of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability: Developments & Innovations, BE OPEN took part in the culminating panel discussion dedicated to the role of international organizations in promoting sustainability aspects.
BE OPEN Art, an online gallery designed by Elena Baturina’s BE OPEN think tank, is happy to announce the Artist of the Year 2023, selected by the majority of votes among the monthly ratings.
BE OPEN congratulates the talented Jean D’amour Imanishimwe, a Rwandan visual artist. A graduate of the Nyundo School of Arts. Since 2017, he is the co-founder of HUZA ARTS RWANDA gallery whose objective is to give a platform to young local artists to exhibit and sell their artworks.
Throughout 2023, the BE OPEN expert community selected those artists who best represent the artistic tradition of a certain region to feature in the BE OPEN Art gallery and offer them greater visibility. In October, the focus of the competition moved to Central Africa.
