The ERASMUS+ Project “Traditional Settlements, Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development” refers to all the actions we could implement towards the sustainability and using the adult education tools. In the region of Thesprotia there are: five (5) Traditional Settlements, characterized as “traditional” by law, according to the Presidential Decree on Traditional Settlements 13-11-1978, (Government Gasette of Hellenic Republic, Sheet 594/ forth issue/1978). They are constructed in the 15th to the 19th century, during the Turkish Occupation in Greece and they have rare aesthetical, urban and historical value. Our Centre implements educational relevant educational programmes in national level since 2008. The project targets to the education and training of the adults in order to take, in future, the initiatives which will reveal the beauty of the traditional features in every region and in the same time to create startup business in the framework of environmental sustainability. The interventions would be guided mainly by a dominant objective that rehabilitation works succeeded in valorizing and restoring to the settlement and selected buildings their original ambiance and an authentic vitality: preserving, restoring and rehabilitating buildings and building complexes, and arranging them in order to shelter tourist accommodations or other public uses (lodging, buildings of public use, Community Office, hand weaving workshop, museums, restaurants, olive presses, watermills etc).The participants Partners will be from several European Countries and through benchmarking we will exchange good practices towards a sustainable development.
The ERASMUS + "Traditional Settlements, Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development" program refers to all the actions that we can implement for the sustainability and use of adult learning tools. In the area of Thesprotia there are: five (5) Traditional Settlements, characterized as "traditional". They were created from the 15th to the 19th century during the Turkish occupation in Greece and have a rare aesthetic, urban and historical value. Our Center has been implementing education-related education programs at national level since 2008. The aim of the program was to educate and train adults to take initiatives that will reveal the beauty of traditional characteristics in each region and at the same time create start-ups in the context of environmental sustainability. The interventions focused on the restoration works that managed to restore and restore the original atmosphere and the original buildings and buildings: the preservation, restoration and restoration of buildings and building complexes and their arrangement Accommodation or other public uses , public buildings, community office, handmade weaving workshop, museums, restaurants, mills, watermills, etc.). The participating partners are 7 and come from different European countries (Italy, Albania, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland) and through benchmarking we exchanged good practices for sustainable development. There were transnational meetings, educational visits, the organization of meetings, participation in festivals and conferences. The motivation and active role of the participants and the launching of corresponding projects were used as indicators for the positive results of the dissemination. We have been in touch with many local and community stakeholders and have expressed their deep interest in working together (Municipalities, Chamber of Commerce, Regional Prefectural Authorities).