On the 18th and 19th of May 2012 in Craiova (Romania) a working meeting and a methodology workshop were organized for the lecturers from the partner universities in the project Cross-Border University Network for Intercultural Communication of the Romania-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2007-2013.
Parallel to the meeting the International Elias Canetti Society organized in Craiova a series of cultural events. On the 18th of May at the exhibition hall of the Craiova University Prof. Penka Angelova and Mrs Elena Velikova, curator of the City Art Gallery of Ruse, opened the exhibition-contest Peoples Laughter in Images – Bulgarians and Romanians Laugh with the participation of artists from both neighbor countries. The artists who received special awards are Aurelian Suta, Chavdar Nikolov, Ivaylo Tsvetkov and Vasile Craita-Mandra. After the exhibition opening Corina Bernic, the cultural manager of the Robert Bosch Foundation for Bucharest read a lecture on topic The other Romania: Romanian writers in German language.
On the 19th of May the working meeting continued with a discussion on the textbook in Intercultural Communication, which will be published as part of the program, and in the early evening the IECS organized a screening of Boyanka Shandurkova’s documentary 20 Years of the International Elias Canetti Society.