A vast awareness campaign accompanied the realization of the projrct “PORTAL – Support for professional realization”. After the press-conference and the workshop in late January which set up the beginning of the project, in Pazardjik and several villages in the municipality were held five more workshops and six info-days.

The workshops took place at the Professional high-school for industrial technology, Professional high-school for technology of textiles, “Dimitar Gachev” secondary school, the office of the leading organization – “Center for trainings and services”, “Constantine Velichkov” primary school in Patalenitsa village. In those events participated representatives from institutions and schools as well as citizens.The info-days were held mainly in the villages as small workshops and the extensive report on the local television did much to promote project’s goals and objectives. The info-days were organized with the help of the mentors, working in the corresponding territory.

At the info-days there was an overall presentation of the project and the experts explained the objectives and the forthcoming tasks and activities. They answered numerous questions, related to participation in individual studies and assistance provided to those from the villages. Part of them filled out applications for inclusion in the project.

The awareness campaign involved around 250 participants.