Valya Stergioti

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The 5-day training “Certified Interpretative Guide”, CIG for the first time in Albania,

The Institute of Education, Heritage and Tourism, IETT, in collaboration with Interpret Europe, held today the first day of the 5-day training, Interpretive Guides Training, CIG. The meeting started with the greeting speech from the IETT coordinator, Mrs. Anisa Hykaj, who welcomed the participants and made a short presentation of the lecturer, Valya Stergioti, training coordinator of Interpret Europe, with more than 20 years of professional experience and assistant lecturer Max Dubravko Fijacko, certified Interpretation trainer and coordinator of culinary heritage. The...

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Interpret Europe successfully concluded a four-day International E-conference

“𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮, 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 ” – Lisa Brochou, Associate Director of the USA’s National Association for Interpretation (NAI), held a hugely inspiring keynote speech at the last day of IE conference. Lisa’s keynote address, ‘𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁’, showed how those of us living and working in heritage communities might find inspiration to rebuild more sustainable operations in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderated by Valya Stergioti, IE’s Training Coordinator the final day...

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Eco-Tourism in Albania, part of the International Conference of “Interpret Europe”

The second day of the conference, presented by Peter Seccombe, England brought to the participants very interesting lectures on culture, world heritage, tourism, museums, architecture, etc. The keynote address was given by Dirk Gotzmann, Director of CIVILSCAPE, Germany. The presentation focused on the Council of Europe Convention on Landscape or otherwise known as the Florence Convention. Gotzmann reminded us that landscape is inextricably linked to personal perception that encompasses all our senses. Among the presentations of the second day, we would single...

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Interpret Europe International Conference on the Importance of Heritage Care

Interpret Europe opened the international conference on “Fostering Heritage Communities”. This is the first time that such a four-day event is held online by IE for more than 150 participants from 35 countries. The Institute of Education, Heritage and Tourism, IETT as a member of Interpret Europe since 2019, closely followed all the first day sessions. The conference opened with a welcome speech by Mr. Thorsten Ludwig, IE Organizing Director since 2015 and the Director of the UNESCO Office in Brussels,...

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