The “Open Hand” Foundation together with the Regional Military History Museum Pleven and the Regional Centre for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe under the auspices of UNESCO in Sofia held a conference on 05/06/2023 in the National Press Club of BTA in Pleven.
The occasion is the “Journey through Living Traditions” exhibition organized by the “Open Hand” Foundation together with the Municipality of Pleven in the Panorama Pleven Epic 1877″ in connection with the 20th anniversary of the signing of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The “Open Hand” Foundation presented its experience of the joint work of international organizations, a regional museum and the foundation on the preservation of cultural heritage on the basis of the prepared Joint Strategy for the preservation, sustainable use and management of cultural heritage with a common history and in relation to the policy for the sustainability of the project “Danube – a river with lot of common history”, project code ROBG-476 under the INTEREG V-A Romania-Bulgaria Program, co-financed by ERDF. Within the framework of the project, the foundation team was able to unite the efforts of all participants to create sustainable methods of preservation and promotion of historical and cultural values in the cross-border region. The inclusion of local communities in cultural heritage protection activities was considered a particularly important point, which will contribute to increasing public awareness and commitment.
In the exhibition, the “Open Hand” Foundation also presents a scaled-down realistic model of the Panorama “Pleven Epic 1877”, made according to the project “Danube – a river with lot of common history”.
