{"id":923,"date":"2025-01-24T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:29:58","slug":"ghent-to-kumanovo-a-belgian-macedonian-success-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ghent to Kumanovo \u2013 a Belgian-Macedonian success\u00a0trail&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-image-gallery  root-eb-image-gallery-lt8ww\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-image-gallery-lt8ww \"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-wrapper eb-image-gallery-lt8ww grid overlay-bottom caption-style-0   no-isotope \" data-id=\"eb-image-gallery-lt8ww\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2580-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" data-fslightbox=\"gallery\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content eb-filter-img-\"><span class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2580-scaled.jpg\" image-index=\"0\"\/><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2614-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" data-fslightbox=\"gallery\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content eb-filter-img-\"><span class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2614-scaled.jpg\" image-index=\"1\"\/><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2618-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" data-fslightbox=\"gallery\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content eb-filter-img-\"><span class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2618-scaled.jpg\" image-index=\"2\"\/><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>The new year started with a reception in Ghent, organized by SON and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/manandmountain\/\">Man And Mountain LLC<\/a> and Belgian-Macedonian Business Club. It was the occasion to present the River Cleaning action in Kumanovo, supported by the province of East Flanders; the GENERALKA cleaning activity and the Belgian-Macedonian economic relations and the opportunities for Belgian companies, presented with the example of four successful projects.<br><br>Numerous guests from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/provincie-oost-vlaanderen\/\">Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/flandersinvestmentandtrade\/\">Flanders Investment &amp; Trade (FIT)<\/a>, the government of North Macedonia, the Macedonian embassy in Brussels, the Belgian-Macedonian business community and the participating organisations had the occasion to meet and exchange. Jan Hozzee from Trefpunt presented the location and the idea behind the Ghent-Kumanovo activity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAEnPboB4XuYlgw0gb6TBmf4XqToiUNSEbo\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hannes-jaeckl-3625916\/\">Hannes Jaeckl<\/a> presented a movie about it and the vision of a waste-free country. Deputy Prime Minister addressed the public with his experience as a Belgian-Macedonian citizen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAB4lE2ABdzE7UURv6lgM08Q8Sc-rSffmu-Y\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hilde-de-saedeleir-2a8459121\/\">Hilde De Saedeleir<\/a> presented the BMBC and the economic opportunities.<br><br>In the tradition of the BMBC there was a &#8220;Taste of Macedonia&#8221; buffet, made possible thanks to the support of numerous volunteers and generous sponsors, of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/pelagonia\/\">Pelagonia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/tikves-winery\/\">Tikve\u0161 Winery<\/a>, with many traditional and new innovative items.<br><br>Looking forward for future events to present the economic opportunities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year started with a reception in Ghent, organized by SON and Man And Mountain LLC and Belgian-Macedonian Business Club. It was the occasion to present the River Cleaning action in Kumanovo, supported by the province of East Flanders; the GENERALKA cleaning activity and the Belgian-Macedonian economic relations and the opportunities for Belgian companies, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/?p=923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Ghent to Kumanovo \u2013 a Belgian-Macedonian success\u00a0trail&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-partners","category-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manandmountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}