European Year of Cultural Heritage

About the municipality:
Shumen is the tenth largest city in Bulgaria, and is situated on the main road between the sea capital Varna and the administrative capital Sofia. Culture Department, responsible for the preparation of the project proposal organizes yearly a lot of cultural events, most of them are with international participants.

Website of the organisation: www.shumen.bg

About the project:
In accordance with European year of cultural heritage 2018 priority, the project focuses on the social cohesion between the European citizens, using their intangible cultural heritage as a source for this. As we believe that culture is the most powerful means to integrate people and create peace, the main objective of the project is to foster the intercultural dialogue and to create the feeling of very strong European identity for each individual participant.

Interested in 2.2. Network of towns as well(as a partner in projects, focused on cultural heritage, youth activities, intercultural dialogue)



INSTITUTION Municipality of Shumen
TYPE OF INSTITUTION Other
CONTACT NAME Zhenya Dobreva
CONTACT E-MAIL j.dobreva@shumen.bg
COUNTRY Bulgaria
NAME OF THE PROGRAMME Europe for Citizens / Networks of towns
PROJECT TOPIC European Year of Cultural Heritage
WORKING LANGUAGE EN, other
EXPIRATION DATE 01.03.2018.
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