"According to 2010 world population estimations, about 15% of the population, approximately 1 billion people, live with a handicap. In all countries, the highest rates of disability have been encountered among vulnerable groups such as women, elderly and economically poors. The obstacles increases the disadvantages that people experience. The majority of people with disabilities are alienated by social attitudes, official policies and physical barriers. The key of strengthening the disabled and giving the opportunity to fulfill responsibilities as citizens at home, in society and at work is to remove these barriers. On the other hand, arrow and bow, which have a history dating back to almost 20 thousand years ago, have been important war tools in much of history. With the development and spread of firearms, the arrow and the bow have been erased from the battlefields in both the East and the West, but archery has maintained its existence as a challenging and entertaining sporting branch, maintained its development from various sections. The development of the archery as a sport has led to the formation of a modern archery with a different bow and arrow arrangement. Only modern archery has become popular in the Olympics and other official sports competitions. Traditional archery has been struggling to survive with the efforts of some local associations and people. However, traditional archery has become a special field of cultural and philosophical teachings, not only a war or sport tool both for European societies and Turks. Thorough the history, traditional archery have been used with teaching tools such as zen technique in Europe and mystic teachings in Turks as a means of imparting a philosophical insight. The fact that only modern archery’s taking place in official competitions has caused the traditional archery to be forgotten and to face the danger of disappearing. As the intangible cultural heritage of the European Cultural Heritage of Year 2018, there is a need to revitalize traditional archery in Europe and to raise awareness of this cultural heritage. The EU-ARCHERITAGE project is prepared with a defined target for the two identified needs above, both within the European 2020 strategy and the 2018 European Cultural Heritage Year. The specific objective of the EU-ARCHERITAGE PROJECTS is ""to enable disabled adults to acquire new skills through traditional archery and culture, to improve their physical and social capacities and develop their social cohesion for inclusive growth and to raise traditional archery cultural heritage awareness in the EU"" . The target group of the project is disabled adults in Europe. When the project’s specific objective is achieved, it will contribute to the overall objective ""Ensuring a harmonious society and inclusive growth in Europe"". The project coordinator is the Municipality of Uşak. Uşak Okyay Youth and Sports Club Association, Uşak branch of Turkey Disabled Association are the local partners. Foreign partners of the project are JOGART BT from Hungary, EQUAL Ireland Education Research and Related Services Co. Ltd. from Ireland, Nordic European Mobility from Sweden, ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE B. LORENZI FUMANE VR from Italy. The project's specific objective will be achieved by two different project outcomes, with a series of actions to be implemented and outputs of them all. The results and the activities to ensure the results to be achieved are planned as follows; RESULT A: Development of traditional archery and culture skills of the disabledActivity A1- Adult education staff’s training in traditional archery, traditional archery culture and traditional archery trainingActivity A2 – Preparation, implementation and evaluation of surveys among the disabled for motivational trainings and the identification of participants of project trainings Activity A3- providing traditional archery and culture education to disabled adults by Adult education staffActivity A4- Preparation of guidebook for traditional archery education by disabled adults RESULT B-Raising awareness of traditional archery cultural heritage Activity B1 - Establishment of “traditional archery as European Cultural Heritage” promotion handbook Activity B2- Organizing traditional archery competitions for the disabled adults Activity B3 - Flash mob display Activity B4- Preparing Project presentation videos The EU-ARCHERITAGE project has combined the aims of revitalizing and raising awareness of the traditional archery cultural heritage throughout the European Union and increasing the social inclusion and social cohesion of the disabled adults in traditional archery."

"Although Usak has had a good momentum in terms of culture, nature, and thermal tourism in recent years, it is not the same in terms of gastronomy tourism. Food and beverages services of limited-capacity places are far from traditional food and richness of Turkish cuisine. Starting from this issue, the requirement of a project that will increase the supply of local food -projection of our national cuisine- in terms of gastronomy tourism in Usak, has been identified by Chamber of Uşak Chefs and Restaurateurs (Usak Aşçılar ve Lokantacılar Odası). EUROOTFOOD project has been coordinated by Chamber of Uşak Chefs and Restaurateurs . The local partnerships of the project were Türkiye Lokantacılar ve Pastacılar Federasyonu, Uşak Municipality and Uşak Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi where as organizations named as Training 2000 - Italy, Eurotracks - France and MBM TD Center - UK were the foreign partnerships of the project. The goal of the project EUROOFOOD is ""to create new gastronomic destinations in the European Union through the revitalization of traditional foods that sink into oblivion in refreshments sector’’. This goal was achieved at the end of the project. The target group of the project is chefs and restaurateurs in Usak and EU. Both the making of the meals sinking to oblivion and training, training materials and develop knowledge ability and attitude towards serving these in terms of gastronomy tourism by the restaurateurs and chefs in Usak has been achieved. The ultimate beneficiaries of the outcomes of the project are local, national and European level food and beverage sector workers. By reaching the special target, EUROOFOOD has contributed to the general target of ‘’ Developing the variety of alternative tourism which would make rural areas advance’’. Thus, another ultimate beneficiary of the project is the community of Uşak. EUROOTFOOD project has achieved the goal ""to create new gastronomic destinations in the European Union through the revitalization of traditional foods that sink into oblivion in refreshments sector"", with three outputs of the project obtained as results of the activities carried out. This results; A- Increasing the level of knowledge and enhancing skills of cooks and restaurateur about traditional food and gastronomy tourism. B- Revitalization of traditional food those sunk into oblivion. C- Raising awareness regarding the importance of traditional food and gastronomy tourism A series of activities were planned and implemented in order to obtain the results mentioned above. These activities;A1-Preparation of ""gastronomic tourism online training module"" for chefs and restaurateurs A2- Teaching gastronomic tourism training course for chefs and restaurateurs A3-Finding out the master chefs of traditional local food that sink into oblivion and providing them to teach courses to chefs/cooks and restaurateursA4- Doing internship of a group of trainees and trainers in France B1- Making an inventory and reports on local food B2- Building EUROOTFOOD project website in the languages of the partner countriesB3- Collecting recipes, recording videos about the processing steps of traditional food, that sink into oblivion B4- Writing and publishing book named “EUROOTFOOD Traditional Food” C1- Conducting a conference about “ Importance of Traditional Food in terms of Gastronomic Tourism and Health” C2-Establishing museum of traditional food utensilsC3-Organizing traditional food festival With EUROOTFOOD project, the chefs and restaurateurs sector in Uşak was provided to keep pace with investment and development about tourism in the province, and to enable local traditional food to be tasted with a presentation both domestic and foreign tourists will be satisfied. Finally, they were also provided to catch a service quality and manner, which will provide tourists to come to the region for culinary tourism. The quality and understanding make a significant contribution to both cultural and gastronomic tourism destination of the region to become. Due to the fact that it aims to increase the quality of tourism services on a local basis, this project has brought with it the results that contribute to the cultural, social and economic development of the region. EUROOTFOOD project, which has been carried out by an international study, has provided to achieve progress towards the development of gastronomic tourism and revitalization of traditional foods, at European level with successful facilities and effective dissemination activities."