Second Stakeholder Meeting in Bulgaria

On Monday, January 15, 2024, the two Bulgarian partners, Association Centre for Sustainability and Economic Growth /CSEG/ and Municipality of Peshtera organized the Second stakeholder group meeting in Bulgaria within the frame of RuralYouthFuture project, co-funded by the Interreg Europe Programme 2021-2027.    

𝐌𝐫. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯, 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐒𝐄𝐆, presented the project in front of the participants – its main objectives and upcoming activities on interregional study visits, exchanges of experience and best practices identification. Mr. Ivanov presented also best practices coming from the Latvian partners and demonstrated during the First interregional study visit a few months ago. 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 made a short overview of the monitoring and evaluation activities related to the Bulgarian policy document, the Plan for Integrated Development of Peshtera Municipality 2021-2027.  

These two presentations were followed by a debate 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚. Stakeholders provided interesting proposals which will be further studied and analyzed by the two Bulgarian partners to present them at the Bulgarian study visit in April 2024.

Various stakeholders took part in the event like representatives of public administrations and educational authorities, social workers, representatives of NGOs, energy agencies, and SME associations. Most of these organizations comprise high-quality experts in specific sectors like education, environment protection, sustainable energy, entrepreneurship, and policymaking. 

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