site.btaBTA's Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills Conference in Vratsa to Discuss EU Cohesion Policy

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is organizing a local conference in Vratsa on Tuesday on the project “Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills”, which BTA is implementing with the support of the European Commission (EC). The event will start at 10:30 a.m. at the BTA National Press Club in Vratsa.

Participants in the forum will be the head of the Vratsa Regional Department of Education, Loreta Koleva, the manager of the Regional Information Centre in Vratsa, Tsvetana Ivanova, the head of Europe Direct Vratsa, Maria Panayotova, the director of the Vratsa Labour Office, Violeta Andreeva, the deputy mayor of Vratsa,  Tsvetan Stoichkov, the Deputy Director of the Vratsa Vocational High School of Trade and Catering, Veselka Krasteva, and students from the Professional Natural and Mathematical High School in Vratsa, who were among the 15 finalists out of 130 participants in the prestigious fourth European competition on nuclear energy for secondary schools, organized by the European Network for Nuclear Education.

The forum will discuss the new developments in the EU cohesion policy for the period 2021-2027 and the results achieved in the period 2014-2020.

BTA's Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills project aims to raise public awareness and foster open dialogue about cohesion policy, local achievements, and the implementation of the EU's policy priorities. The project kicked off with a conference in Veliki Preslav in November 2024. The project builds on the Europe in the Balkans: A Common Future and Europe in Bulgaria: A Common Future projects, implemented by BTA in 2023 and 2024, respectively.