The Women Writers Route received an award for good practice for the second time in a row at the Annual Advisory Forum of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. At the recently concluded forum, which took place in Cappadocia, Turkey, representatives of the Governing Board of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes, which includes representatives of all countries participating in the program, were impressed by the Ljubka ‘s Trail project.

Ljubka’s Trail is a project implemented by the FSK in cooperation with the Lojze Bratuž Cultural Centre from Grozia, which has received support from the Small Projects Fund GO!2025 Interreg Italy-Slovenia. The Women Writers Route received the award for inspiring practice in the category of cultural and educational exchanges for young Europeans. Training for tourist guides on the Ljubka Trail was attended by students of tourism at the Cankar–Zois–Vega technical schools and their teachers. The young participants successfully completed the training and, on 8 March, International Women’s Day, received certificates confirming their qualification to guide visitors along Ljubka’s Trail.

As part of the project, on February 19, Ljubka Šorli’s birthday, a concert entitled Pevski odmev Ljubkine poti (The Singing Echo of Ljubka’s Trail) was held, featuring 200 young singers, members of eight children’s and youth choirs, and seven choir conductors from Slovenia and Italy. In front of a packed audience in the Grand Hall of the Lojze Bratuž Cultural Centre, they performed poems by Ljubka Šorli, which were specially set to music for the occasion by Patrick Quaggiato. The choir performances were accompanied by distinguished musicians.

Awards for inspiring practices are presented at the largest annual meeting and most important event of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme in five categories that coincide with which coincide with the priorities of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme fields: Cooperation in research and development; Enhancement of memory, history and European heritage; Cultural and educational exchanges for young Europeans; Contemporary cultural and artistic practices; and Cultural tourism and sustainable development.

Last year, the Women Writers Route was awarded in the category  »Enhancement of memory, history and European heritage« for the guided tour »Bold and Borderless«, dedicated to women writers who made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual identity of the Gorizia conurbation in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.