Programme: Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups

With this project, the applicant plans to create a web-based platform FishWeek.eu to promote fishing territories, products and traditional fisherman crafts and organize a festival. The platform will contain useful and interesting information on the one hand about the fishermen and their daily activities, and on the other hand the information on the platform will promote the specifics of the FLAG, the fishermen's skills, the opportunities for people to feel the traditional fishing lifestyle and culture and take part in them. The platform will promote the cultural calendar on the territory of the FLAG, traditional foods, recipes and opportunities for their tasting, the opportunities for practicing sport fishing and various sports-related activities. The series of short documentaries (4-5 minutes) are planned to be filmed, which will tell stories about the daily life of people whose lives, food and crafts are related to the sea and its resources. The stories in the films will be of different energy and character from different places and will be told by fishermen, captains, crew, master craftsmen, athletes, a movie about a fisherman's daily life, masters of crafts related to fisheries, boating and more. The films will be strive to promote that beauty of the Bulgarian Black sea coast, which is outside the traditional sunbathing and usually remains hidden to tourists. It is also planned to organize a spring festival of the sea, fishermen and seafood, which will be located in the village of Ravda.The idea is to make the festival interactive, as a "street of crafts" and visitors can feel the life of the fishing community, to do different things with the fishermen, to cook, to taste and to keep the feeling of a vibrant and active fishing community and a territory that is worth a visit. The festival will be organized outside the official tourist season - in May in order to extend the season and attract new tourists to the territory.