The Institute of Education, Heritage and Tourism presented the scientific paper: “Socio-cultural effects of handicrafts in Presevo and the surrounding area” represented by the director of IETT, Prof. Dr. Ramiz Zekaj.
This activity was organized by the Association for Heritage and Cultural Creativity of the Presevo Valley on October 23-24, 2021 in Presevo, which was attended by participants from all Albanian territories, Albania, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, Valley. of Presevo, diaspora, etc.
The Presevo Valley and the Albanian lands have a rich history on handicrafts and trade, which have not been researched, studied, treated and scientifically examined in the historical, economic, sociological, cultural aspect, etc.
This conference, therefore, studies, opinions and such facts of handicrafts and traffic in the Presevo Valley from its first beginnings in the XVI century, in relation to 1570, where for the first time is the history of a craftsman, the culmination which reached the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its ongoing state.
Some of the most important are the thoughts and ideas brought about the reasoning and revitalization of these things, given that the handicrafts that come from our artisans are products that make a nation revered before the world, because they have different cultural distinctive signs and identities.
