In the period between 26-th and 28-th September, in Ohrid, we organized the important Workshop on "partnership and creating team"

This workshop had the priority for the project, for the partners and the publications "Towns in Macedonia", publications that are the key for fulfilment of the aims for active participation of the partners and colaboraters throughout the country.

The workshop had two aims:
- to provide trainning for the basic concepts about the partnership, creation of the team and to make a space the members of Kontrapunkt and the local partners to mutually perform the joint activities connected with the project.
- to provide trainning for the practical skills of editing and publishing a magazine, and to provide the members of Kontrapunkt and the local partners to create a vision in the further development of the activities devoted on every single day (it's transformation into (local monthly or weekly magazine).

The workshop was guided by three trainners: Ivan Dodovski, expert for team work trainning, Marijana Ivanova and Viktor Shikov, experts for journalistic skills and genres that should be applied in creating a clearer picture of the cultural, social and the political landscape of the country. Besides the team from Kontrapunkt (Iskra Geshoska, Nikola Gelevski, Robert Alagjozovski, Elena Veljanovska, Bojan Ivanovic and Vladimir Jankovski) there were 23 other participants from Ohrid, Struga, Tetovo, Gostivar, Bitola, Negotino and Veles. According to the level of inclusion and the end results from the two days workshop we concidered that we made very important linking of the individuals and the NGO from eastern and western Macedonia and clarifying of the motives for cooperation. All the dillemas were solved and the obligations were precised in details. The teams from the towns mentioned aboves and several others are to make publications about their own local community, especially providing analysis of the conditions, the people and the events that would provide a special, critical racourse of the existing values and to offer a model for further functioning. What is most important and which we offer to the seminar attendees is the pleasure and the responsibility for one serious mini project and also the awakening of their own initiativeness suggesting that they have the chance to manage the further destiny of the magazine, for which we would now provide a financial and every other support. This peculiar engagement that provides vision about the future steps, built trust among our partners in our aims and intentions. It is also important to mention that after long discussion among the partners we agreed that the special publications on the towns should not come out of print as a supplement of Margina, but to appear independently, thus aquiring much attention. But the Kontrapunkt will keep the further responsability for the distribution and the promotions of the publications.