Check the AGENDA of the Festival in Greek (ελληνικά) & English!

The Cross-border Festival of Borderless Culture project in a Nutshell:

Saturday 24 August 2019

18.00: Workshop for children and teenagers (Amfipoli)

20.00: Music & Dance Night

With the participation of the groups:

• Cultural Association “Neoi Epivates”
• Cultural-Folklore Association of Thessaloniki “Friends of tradition”
• Pirin Folk Ensemble, Blagoevgrad Bulgaria
• Polyphonic group “Pentatono”
• Concert with the music group “Plagios δ.”

Sunday 25 August 2019

Cultural Info Day “Promotion of Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Local Development: From planning to implementation”

Venue: Municipal Council Hall of Amfipoli, Rodolivos of Serres

Agenda in Greek (ελληνικά) and English

20.00: Music & Dance Night

With the participation of the groups:

• Folklore Association of Vlachs and friends “Lalias” of Serres
• Association of citizens of Evros in Drama “O Evros”
• Association of citizens of Evros in Komotini
• National Cultural Association of Bulgaria “St. Cyril and Methodius”
• Concert with Sokratis Papaioannou and Persephoni

Side event

“Interactive workshop on wheels”, a VR experience through cultural videos.

(Saturday-Amfipoli, Sunday-Rodolivos)

A festival full of tradition, dances, music and culture!

The Ministry of the Interior (Sector Macedonia & Thrace), acting as Project Beneficiary 2, is organising a

Two-day Cross-border Festival in Amphipoli, in 24-25 August 2019.

The festival includes a cultural info-day, traditional dances from various cross-border groups and live music!

Details of the event will be announced in the next days so…

Poster of the Festival in Greek language.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE!

Culture, tourism and gastronomy were the main topics of discussion in the thematic event which attracted more than 350 participants on the 16^th of May 2019 in Serres. Organised by the Ministry of the Interior (Sector Macedonia & Thrace), the event was implemented in the framework of the project Borderless Culture with the participation of the project partners.

The meeting kicked off with the official speech of the Deputy Minister of the Interior (Sector Macedonia & Thrace), Mrs. Eleftheria Chatzigeorgiou. The majority of the participants were representatives of local and regional authorities, professionals of culture, tourism and gastronomy, students and professors of the public institutes of vocational training, as well as citizens of the Greek-Bulgarian cross-border area.

During the Scientific Conference of Tourism-Culture (PART A), the key points of discussion were the promotion of cultural, environmental and tourist resources of the cross-border area and the modern challenges and prospects for sustainable tourism development.

Representatives from the Directorate of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities (Ministry of Culture & Sports) and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres presented the works for the promotion of the ancient city of Amphipolis. Later on, Dr. Roussi Bozkova presented the main tourist destinations in South-west Bulgaria. The second thematic section concerned the tourist opportunities for development in Northern Greece, analyzing thematic routes, tourist packages, European good practices, accessible cultural assets and the new era of digitalization.

The event was concluded with the Thematic Gastronomy Presentation and the Live Cooking Event where two chefs from Greece and Bulgaria, assisted by gastronomy students of Serres, prepared and presented recipes based on local products and traditional gastronomy of the cross-border area.

Photographs of the event:

The Deputy Minister of the Interior (Sector Macedonia and Thrace) invites you to the thematic event entitled: “Greece-Bulgaria cross-border area: creating a joint tourism destination” which will be held at Serres (Elpida Resort Hotel) on Thursday 16th May 2019 at 13:00.

Registrations are now open!

Check the detailed agenda of the event! (Πρόγραμμα στα ελληνικά)

Event in a nutshell:

Part A: Scientific Conference of Tourism-Culture

-Promotion of the cultural, natural and tourism resources of Greek-Bulgarian cross-border area

-Contemporary challenges and perspectives for the sustainable tourism development in Greek-Bulgarian cross-border area

Part B: Thematic Gastronomy Presentation

-Cross border Gastronomy: a table full of flavours, tastes and colours

-Live Cooking Event: Recipes based on local products and traditional gastronomy

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage / Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities organized the 2nd project meeting within the approved project “Integrating Bulgaria-Greece cross-border significance historical and archeological assets into one sustainable thematic tourist destination – BORDERLESS CULTURE”, supported by Cooperation Programme “INTERREG V-A Greece-Bulgaria” 2014 – 2020.
The 2nd project meeting was hosted in the Hall number 125 of the building of the Ministry of Interior (Sector Macedonia & Thrace) Dioikitirio, Thessaloniki, Greece on Wednesday 10/10/2018. The 2nd project started at 10:00 and ended at 13:00.
The project involves the following participants:
Lead Beneficiary: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage / Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical 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 Level 2 Center of Region of Central Macedonia Regional Unit of Serres

At the beginning of the project meeting, Mr Kyriakos Fotiadis, Coordinator of Joint Secretariat, welcomed project beneficiaries’ representatives and mentioned that the scope of the technical meeting is to be discussed the progress and the possible problems of project implementation. Also, all project partners’ representatives introduce themselves and welcomed each other.
During the meeting, all project beneficiaries representatives reported the tender procedures that have completed as well as the progress of the rest tenders that are going to be announced and the dates of the up-coming tenders updating the STPP. Moreover, they presented the progress of their deliverables implementation presenting the deliverables and activities that have already implemented and explained the reasons of possible delays. Specifically, each project partner analyzed and described in detail its deliverables to the other partners, which are going to implement within the Project.
Furthermore, it was specified certain actions within the Project deliverables as foreseen in the Application Form in force as well as it was discussed project’ future steps. All project partners’ representatives discussed and planned the time framework for the events’ organization as well as the content of the events and their technical specifications. Finally, all participants discussed with each other and had the opportunity to solve their questions which arose during the presentations.

Click here and read the invitation – agenda of the 2nd project meeting

Click here and read the press release