Wednesday,13/12/2017

PRESS RELEASE

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / General Directorate of Antiquities and CulturalHeritage / Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities organized the kick-off meeting within the approved project "Integrating Bulgaria-Greece cross-border significance historical and archaeological assets into one sustainable thematic tourist destination - BORDERLESS CULTURE", supported by Cooperation Programme "INTERREG V-A Greece-Bulgaria" 2014 - 2020. The kick-off meeting was hosted in the amphitheatre “Stefanos Dragoumis” of the Museum of ByzantineCulture, 2 Stratou Avenue, Thessaloniki Greece on Wednesday 13 December 2017. The meetingstartedat10:30 andendedat14:30.

Theprojectinvolvesthefollowingparticipants:

Lead Beneficiary:         HellenicMinistryofCultureandSports/GeneralDirectorateof Antiquities and Cultural Heritage / Directorate of PrehistoricandClassical Antiquities

Project beneficiary 2:Ministry of Interior (Sector of Macedonia-Thrace)

Project beneficiary 3:Municipality of Amphipoli

Project beneficiary 4:Faculty of Arts, South-West University "Neofit Rilski" (Bulgaria)

Project beneficiary 5:Municipality of Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria)

Project beneficiary 6:Region of Central Macedonia

Project beneficiary 7:Life Long Learning Level2 Center of Region of Central Macedonia Regional Unit of Serres

 The main objective of the project is to preserve historical, archaeological, and cultural assets of the cross-border area in order to develop an integrated cross-border thematic destination that will allow to improve tourists mobility within cross border area and achieve sustainable tourism development utilizing cross-border significance historical heritage. This will be achieved through small infrastructure interventions in order to be rehabilitated the archaeological findings.Moreover, the development of a new approach on managing and integrating cultural assets will indicate a number of actions and good practices (workshops, training, events, street events), where some of them will be pilot implemented in Amphipoli’s and Blagoevgrad’sarea.

During the kick-off meeting, all project beneficiaries' regal representatives introduced their background, presented their deliverables, discussed and planned the actions that they will implement in the next 6 months. Finally, they defined the milestones and argued that each project partner should plan the time framework for the actions to be implemented in the start-up period of the project and the events' timetable. The kick-off meeting was also attended by the coordinator of Joint Secretariat, Mr. Kiriakos Fotiadis, and the Project’s Officer from the ManagingAuthority, Mrs.EmiliyaDoncheva-Tzivanopoulou.