Creative Regional Baking Competition

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The regional competition is an educational and specific skill-oriented event with abundant prizes and certificates. The personal benefits of such kind of competitions are the opportunities to:
 perform individually before a relevant local audience;
 demonstrate practical skills, knowledge, creativity, and competences;
 improve collaboration with neighbours and friends;
 develop social and emotional skills such as collaborating with widely differing personalities, dealing with conflicting opinions and ideas, and better evaluation of risks
 increase one’s motivation for active ageing;
 handle stressful, competitive situations;
 encourage and reward creative thinking.

An example of good practice
On 10 April, 2018, the Creative Regional Bread Competition (CR-BC) was held in the City Hall of the Municipality of Slivo Pole. 21 elderly participants from the pensioner clubs of the town of Slivo Pole and the villages of Babovo, Borisovo and Ryahovo, presented creative ideas about “their” Europe, prepared as bread products.
A jury consisting of representatives of the local government, the International Association DANET e.V., the St. P. Hilendarskij secondary school and the Inspectorate of Education of the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria selected 8 winners.
On 3 April 2018, the competition was held in the High School of Tourism, Ruse. Theere were 7 winners (see the Method – International Creative Bread Competition).
On 14 April 2018, other competitions, as parts of CR-BC, were held in Ruse Municipality, Vetovo Municipality and Ivanovo Municipality with 47 participants. The juries selected 28 winners.
The total number of the competition winners from the Ruse Region was 43. They were selected out of 79 contributions of bread products from many European countries, which most impressively represented the idea of Europe in different ways.

1. Danube – the River of Friendship in United Europe (Y. Dimova);
2. The Happy Children of Europe (P. Marinova);
3. The Sun Happily Shines All Over Europe (G. Kovacheva);
4. The Flowers of Europe (Y. Angelova);
5. United Europe – Family Tree (P. Stoyanova);
6. United Europe – represented in the form of an ivy twig encompassing the whole Europe (S. Vasileva);
7. Brilliant Stars – a symbol of the States in the EU (V. Draganova);
8. Тhe Inhabitants of the European Union Are Numerous as the Crumbs of Bread (S. Kadanova);
9. With Love (R. Abrasheva);
10. Friendship;
11. A Sun and 12 Stars;
12. Danube Countries;
13. The Hands of European Children;
14. Easter (R. Angelova);
15. EU Cake (E. Mihaylova);
16. Bread, the Danube River (M. Stefanova);
17. Nesrin’s Bread (N. Solakova);
18. European Flag (I. Yalamova);
19. European Children (M. Yosifova);
20. Europuzzle (E. Petrova);
21. The Future of Europe (M. Todorova);
22. Bread Fruitiness (T. Georgieva, G. Koleva);
23. Bulgarian Flag – EU Flag (P. Mariova);
24. EURO (P. Marinova);
25. Chickens as a Symbol of Real Life (V. Lisitsova);
26. European Basket (S. Marinova);
27. Christmas Bread (I. Kateva);
28. Map of Bulgaria (K. Marinova);
29. European Flag;
30. Tricolored Cake with Stars;
31. Europe from Grandmother and Grandchild;
32. Bulgaria – the 27th Star of the EU;
33. Easter in One European Home (V. Velikova);
34. EU Bread (D. Radeva);
35. Bulgarian Bread (Z. Tsvetkova);
36. Let’s Keep the European Bread (S. Dekova).
    There were also 7 high school winners.
    All the photos of the winning breads were presented at the International Creative Baking Competition in Ulm, 2018.
    12 of them were included in the Bread Exhibition.

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Partner Organistions

Name	Homepage	Logo
Union of Pensioners, Municipality of Slivo Pole – clubs of Babovo, Borisovo, Slivo Pole, and Ryahovo
Union of Pensioners, Municipality of Ruse – clubs in Ruse, Bazan, and Dolno Ablanovo
Union of Pensioners, Municipality of Ivanovo – club of Krasen
Union of Disabled People, Municipality of Ivanovo
Union of Pensioners, Municipality of Vetovo – club of Vetovo

Responsbile Organistion

Name	Homepage	Logo
University of Ruse “A. Kahcnev”, Ruse, Bulgaria	www.uni-ruse.bg

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