There are 294 projects that match your search.
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2023
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12,828.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2022/05 |
The project will consist in:
1. marking for the first time in Albania of several bird species with coloured rings
2. installation of trap camera tracking different species during the nesting process
3. first deployment in Albania of a satellite ( ... )
itter for (Recurvirostra avoceta). Expected duration of tracking 3 years. Tracking open to public through internet.
4. inventory of water nesting birds in the Narta Lagoon and Karavasta Lagoon for 2022-2023
The project will prepare a set of presentation materials in Power Point and an animated video that will be presented at an elementary school (V-class) in each of these cities: (i) Vlora; (ii)
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2022
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37,768.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CH/2022/04 |
This project is based on a detail previous study of the waste disposal in the nature for a long period of time in Elbasan City and the importance of reusing, reducing and recycling some particular solid waste. The project aims to make young people ( ... )
about the importance of environmental protection and to familiarize them with the steps they need to follow to accomplish it. Its objectives are:
1. To educate the youth of the high schools in Elbasan city and the youth council of Elbasan regarding the international and national legal framework for the environmental protection and to empower the youth to actively participate with decisions on
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2022
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33,283.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CH/2022/01 |
Based on feasibility study by GIZ Sustainable Rural Development program, this project will help to create a business model of making available large amounts of compost from manure, crop residues and municipal waste for greenhouse farmers in the ( ... )
area (Fier/Berat) under the patronage of the Albanian Livestock Entrepreneurs Association LEAA. The combination of livestock farming and vegetable production in the Myzeqe area in combination with other natural sources (reed, municipal waste, residues from agro-processing) provides a huge potential to produce large amounts of high-quality compost at a competitive price. At present, vegetable
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Albania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2022
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29,882.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP6/Y7/STAR/CC/2022/02 |
This project will test in small or medium-sized greenhouse an application on the ANDROID platform that will be able to provide real time reading for a series of critical greenhouse environmental parameters from low-cost sensors. This information is ( ... )
ary for both the normal functioning of the greenhouse as well as in crisis situations when the farmer's intervention is required to be fast, such as night frosts. The application is modular, giving the possibility of adding sensors and storing the historic data with the aim of optimizing the functioning of the greenhouse. This project will test a prototype of this program that has been built
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2022
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6,260.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2022/07 |
Dajt's Ridge Trail and Tujani trail, in some places, are difficult to pass as the result of the new growth and fallen timber from the massive forest fire in the year 1997. Some still standing dried trees pose danger to visitors who pass by in case ( ... )
ir breaking. The project would consist of cutting and removing some of the fallen trees with the intention of facilitating movement along the trail. At the same time, the project will carry out clearing/cutting of existing and new growth in other parts of the trail. The project will also refresh the signal along the path, which becomes necessary especially in reduced visibility conditions during
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2022
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24,595.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/BD/2022/01 |
Pancratium maritimum, or sea daffodil, is a species of bulbous plant native to the Mediterranean region. The flowers have a pleasing, exotic and very subtle lily scent, which only becomes apparent during still, windless summer nights that allow the ( ... )
te fragrance to become perceptible. Flowering is from August to October. The plant grows on sandy beaches and dunes along the coast.
Present day practices of well-groomed beaches that include ploughing at the beginning of the season have destructive effects on these plants. Currently this plant is classified as (EN) endangered. The project will consist in active seed and bulb transplantation in
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Albania
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Land Degradation
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2022
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25,240.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/LD/2022/02 |
This project has been developed on feasibility study by GIZ Sustainable Rural Development program and will be assisted and co-financed by GIZ.
This project wants to increase the area of landscapes under sustainable land management in fruit ( ... )
tion systems by addressing issues of crop safety and biodiversity through demonstrating and promoting planting/construction of wind breaking tree belts and hedges.
In recent years, climate change has increasingly led to the occurrence of storms such as in October 2021 in Korca, when entire orchards were destroyed. There is little experience in Albania for the establishment of wind breaks. The
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2022
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21,370.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CH/2022/06 |
The improper treatment of used cooking oil from the catering industry can lead to water and soil pollution. This project aims to recycle used cooking oil to make soap. This would minimize waste treatment and disposal costs and conserve resources. ( ... )
ap making process is environmentally-friendly as its utilizes used cooking oil as its raw material. The project will also use lesser quality olive oil for soap production by women association in Peza
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2022
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23,700.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2022/03 |
Lake Ohrid is a major European biodiversity hotspot situated in a trans-frontier setting on the Balkans, is a prime example for a lake with a magnitude of narrow range endemic taxa that are under increasing anthropogenic pressure. One of the iconic ( ... )
s of this lake is its endemic trout Salmo letnica (Koran). Despite the common narrative, the lake does not have only one species of this fish but at least four. Currently, there are four populations of Koran that have different spawning periods that hint at distinct species. Clarification of this hypothesis does not have only academic value because if proved correct, it will have direct and
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2021
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36,100.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CH/2021/04 |
Rivers often function as conduits draining human generated waste from their water catchments. This is the case for solid waste including plastic pollution. Typically, solid waste gets accumulated in the river beds only to be purged in big pulses ( ... )
the high flow events. The Drini river that forms the hydroelectric reservoir of Fierza drains areas of high population density in Kosovo and Northern Macedonia. High flow events associated with high precipitation, bring great amounts of plastic pollution that forms floating islands nearby the town of Kukes. This project will use a specialized skimming device mounted on a floating platform for
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Albania
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Biodiversity Land Degradation
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2021
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31,021.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/08 |
The pine moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa), is a major pest of pine trees around the Mediterranean Sea. Defoliation damage is extremely serious in young reforested areas where it may lead to death of trees. In mature forests, trees are rarely killed ( ... )
gnificant losses occur in volume growth. Treatment methods vary from mechanic to chemical and biologic. Most of the time a combination of all described methods provides most sustainable results.
This project will clean an area of 30 hectares with approximately 3,000 trees in the vicinity of the town of Korca. The cleaning process will consist in cutting of the caterpillar overwintering nests and
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2021
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27,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/09 |
Fresh forest fruits, despite being a novelty for Albanian consumers, score high prices in local markets. There is a great unused potential for the cultivation of these fruits in Albania due to the fact that these plants do not compete for space with ( ... )
aditionally cultivated plants in high quality agricultural lands. At the same time, the potential income generated by their cultivation in mountainous areas is much higher than the corn, potatoes and wheat that could be cultivated in the same plots. The project will plant a total of 1 hectare of raspberry equally distributed in individual plots of 15 local women in the village of Iballe in
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2021
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15,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/06 |
The largest lake of the Balkan Peninsula, Shkodra Lake, is located on the northern shores of the Adriatic Sea. It’s the surface area is 390 sq. km, which makes it the largest among the lakes of the countries bordering with the Adriatic The lake ( ... )
e status of RAMSAR site. Shkodra lake bleak Alburnus scoranza is endemic of Shkodra Lake and its tributaries, as well as Ohrid Lake. This species deposits eggs on sand, gravel, and rock bottoms at about 0.3 m depth. Due to natural variations on the level of the lake and the shallow depth of deposition, the spawning success varies greatly each year. In the past it has been a practice of moving egg
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2021
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21,600.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/05 |
Storks and pink flamingoes have returned in Albania after 40 years of absence. Currently there are only a handful of stork nests while there are several more attempts of nest building. The project will assist in the construction of 2 artificial ( ... )
rms that facilitate the construction of nests in the Delvina area. The project will also install a live camera on an active nest in Gjirokastra that is expected to provide valuable information as well as good promotional material. Meanwhile, the project will install another live camera nearby the flamingo colony in Narta lagoon in an attempt to understand why the colony, despite repeated
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2021
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31,660.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/07 |
P. oceanica meadows are considered among the most representative and important coastal ecosystems of the Mediterranean. Previous studies have documented that Albania has some of the healthiest meadows or ecosystems in the Mediterranean in the ( ... )
run - Saranda area. These studies "photographed in low resolution" the situation about 10 years ago, while now the urbanization of the coastal area in the south has just begun. This project will provide a high-resolution "photograph" of the so-called "baseline" in the early stages when human disturbance is minimal as is the situation so far in this area.
This project will complement the study
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2021
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31,424.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/03 |
Karavasta National Park on the Albanian Adriatic coast represents a combination of wetlands with the last remaining Mediterranean coastal forests that once covered the low alluvial plains in Albania. The national park has broad leaves forest in the ( ... )
while the southern part is dominated by coniferous mostly belonging to the Mediterranean pine. This project will plant approximately 500 pine trees in the southern part of the park. It will also clean about 1 hectare and install 30 waste bins through the
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2021
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20,100.00
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OP6 - Y5 (Jul 19-Jun 20)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP6/Y5/CORE/BD/2020/03 |
Direct seeding is a regeneration technique in which tree seeds are used directly on the regeneration site instead of seedlings being transplanted from nurseries. There are several potential advantages of direct seeding compared to conventional ( ... )
ng. First, the technique may reduce the cost of regeneration by 50% or more. Secondly, seedlings produced after direct seeding develop a natural root system, and may therefore be better prepared to withstand the conditions prevailing at the regeneration site. The project will be implemented in the Dajti National Park in an area that has been affected by fire. This project will build on the
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2021
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18,460.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CH/2021/10 |
The proposal consists in setting up and test running for one season a differentiated waste collection process from businesses in the city of Saranda. The proposal is coordinated and complementary with a recent GIZ initiative in Albania that consists ( ... )
easing waste recycling. GIZ is in agreement with the municipality of Saranda that will install about 200 waste collection points in 200 tourism-oriented businesses. This project will provide support for the equipment and operation of a group of 10 seasonal workers who will serve at least once a day these 200 waste collection & separation points. The separated waste will be transported to the
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2021
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16,920.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CH/2021/01 |
The project will engage marginalized women and girls in the production of recyclable and environmentally friendly masks. The project will train 30 women in the production of masks as well as in running small business and will equip 10 of them with ( ... )
machines. The intervention will be a self-sustaining action in this time of crisis by supporting livelihoods for women and their families and protecting the environment and will also consist in public events consisting in distribution and promoting safe use of masks in the Berat municipality in the south of Albania. The masks produced will follow the WHO guidelines consisting in a three-layer
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2021
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19,860.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CH/2021/02 |
Surgical masks widely used by population pose a serious risk for the environment while for low-income families they represent a considerable cost if used properly. Project is focused on environment protection through commitment of students and ( ... )
sts in services and awareness of community. The project will engage 80 marginalized women and girls in production of multiuse recyclable masks of 100% cotton fabrics as well as on how to run small businesses. The project will equip 10 women with sewing machines. The project will be implemented in the municipality of Laci – Kurbini in the northern part of Albania. The masks produced will follow
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