Seminar ”Craftsmanship as a Driver of Regional Development”

We warmly invite you to Soufli and the Silk Festival 2026, which concludes on Sunday, 21 June 2026, at the Pireus Bank’s Silk Museum with a seminar entitled:

Craftsmanship as a Driver of Regional Development

Programme:

11:30 – 11:50 | Welcome

11:50 – 12:20 | Remarks by the Mayors
Municipality of Anogeia 
Municipality of Eordaia 
Municipality of Soufli 

12:20 – 14:00 | Presentations (15 minutes per speaker)
Angela Giannakidou, Founder of the Ethnological Museum of Thrace
Athena Ketsitzi, Textile Engineer
Maria Anaxagora, Director of the Cyprus Handicraft Service
Georgios Panagiaris, Professor, University of West Attica
Nadia Macha, Professor, Democritus University of Thrace
Stella Kostopoulou, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

14:00 – 15:00 | Best Practice Presentations (10 minutes per speaker)
Venetia Koutsou
Meropi Ververi ( (Penelope Loom)
Vasilis Vlachos (VV Sur Mesure)
Chrysa Georgiou (Yfainein)
ΖZoe Papadaki (Ergastini)
Eleni Androvic, Swedish Institute at Athens

15:00 – 15:30 | Discussion and Q&A

Attached files: Seminar Programme, Exhibition Invitation