ARTIFACTORY has started its cooperation with the BALKAN MED 2014-2020 Project INNOVA :Balkan-Mediterranean Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Dr. Dorothea Papathanasiou-Zuhrt participated the project training organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia-Bulgaria on the 30th and the 31st of October 2018. The transnational training, addressed to the Project’s pool of trainers, aimed to lay the foundation for an academic-practitioner cooperation towards the development of skills in the creation of tourism start-ups in the BALKAN-MED Transnational Cooperation Area. The Contracting Authority  KEKAPEL in Greece  has entrusted Dr. Dorothea Papathanasiou-Zuhrt with the development of training modules in Cultural Tourism. The training will be coordinated by the CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY under the supervision of Prof. Antonis Theocharous.