📅 Implementation:12 months 
💶 Total Budget: €201,138.00 | ERDF Contribution: €160,910.40 
🤝 Partners:2 community organisations 
🎯 Type: People-to-People project | ISO6.3

Summary

Culture heritages brings together the communities of Álmosd and Petreu to celebrate, preserve, and promote their shared cultural heritage. Through festivals, workshops, cultural camps, and digital tools, participants explore traditional crafts, gastronomy, folklore, and local history. A strong focus is placed on involving young people and encouraging the transfer of cultural knowledge between generations, while creating new opportunities for cooperation between communities on both sides of the border.

Project Aim

To increase appreciation of cross-border cultural heritage through joint events and people-to-people activities involving the communities of Álmosd and Petreu.

Objectives

✅ Promote and preserve traditional crafts, gastronomy, folklore, and local heritage
✅ Encourage direct interaction between communities across the border
✅ Involve young people in preserving and sharing local traditions
✅ Improve the visibility and accessibility of cultural heritage assets
✅ Strengthen long-term cooperation between local organisations and institutions

Key Activities & Results

🔹 Gastronomical heritage event – Two-day cross-border event dedicated to traditional food preparation, grape processing, and local culinary heritage

🔹 Tradition, folk dance and movement development programme – Three-day event for youth, teachers, and local authorities to experience and local stakeholders to folk music and dance traditions

🔹 Traditional folk games and folk tales workshop – Professional exchange event exploring the role of traditional games in children's development

🔹 Cross tour mobile application – Development of a trilingual offline mobile app featuring GPS-based cultural routes and local attractions

🔹 Cross-border cultural heritage action plan – Preparation of a joint action plan and oral history study documenting local memories and heritage assets

🔹 Festival of 1000 folk dancers across the border from here and beyond – Large-scale cultural event in Marghita bringing together 1,000 dancers and 100 folk singers

🔹 Open days – olk Dance Together – Free folk dance learning sessions in Petreu for the wider community

🔹 Opening and closing events – Joint events presenting project achievements and promoting heritage tourism opportunities

By connecting people through traditions, culture, and shared experiences, Culture heritages helps safeguard common heritage while creating stronger and more lasting cross-border relationships.

For more details, consult the project fact sheet: EN

Partnership

Lead Partner: Bihar Value Foundation (HU) 
Project Partner: Association for Community Development of Petreu (RO)

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