PROJECT NAME: CRAFTS – NETWORK for joint initiatives for their protection, promotion and turning them into tourist attractions
Programme: Interreg-IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Bulgaria – Turkey 2014–2020
Lead Partner: Lalapasa Union for Delivering Services to Villages, Turkey
Partner: Euroclub Woman, Bulgaria
Duration: 15 months (July 2019- September 2020)
Main Objective: This project is aiming to seek and implement impact on large groups of people through initiatives for mutual learning and the formation of a common interest towards the cultural heritage of the two nations, separated by the border, by networking for greater involvement and turning the crafts and their products into tourist attractions. This could intrigued the citizens and tourists from both countries, as they see the crafts and their products form another point of view- as tourist attractions, as source of information, new knowledge for the nation that live on the other side of the border.
Project Activities:
- Project press-conferences for start and end of the project
- Information research-survey and analysis
- Information Brochure ” The crafts and their products – historical heritage and tourist attraction in the cross-border region Bulgaria – Turkey”
- Organization of two networking trainings in three traditional crafts in each country
- International exchange visits in Yambol,BG and Lalapasa,TR
- International conference in Yambol, BG
- Promotional materials
- TV, radio participation
- Website of the project