Rural Entrepreneurship for You(th)

Rural Entrepreneurship for You(th) project was a three year long cooperation partnership project based on the needs analysis among our youth, youth workers and leaders of our organizations. The project responded to the needs of all our partner organizations to prevent and lower youth unemployment among young people and promote rural entrepreneurship by providing young people with new, practical entrepreneurial ideas, knowledge, skills and competences they could develop, as well as share with them good examples of living a healthy lifestyle in a rural environment, and help creating their own businesses in the area of green and media jobs. Besides the above mentioned the aim of this project was to develop a collaborative, interactive educational online platform and offer new practical entrepreneurship ideas, knowledge, skills and competences that support, promote and inspire self-reliant, sustainable living and youth entrepreneurship in rural areas, and consequently, enhance youth employment in rural areas and communities in the countries of the partnership members and beyond.

The objectives of this project were: 1. to develop entrepreneurial skills, offer new ideas of green and media jobs and foster skills and competencies of the participants to promote entrepreneurial attitudes and enhance employment opportunities; 2. to promote sustainability (social, environmental, economic and cultural) and self-reliance; 3. to promote social inclusion; 4. to promote a healthy, balanced lifestyle among young people; 5. to provide participants with intercultural experience and create appreciation, tolerance and awareness of different cultures; 5. to promote Erasmus+ opportunities for youth, Youthpass and the idea of ESC; 6. to support the internationalisation of our organizations; 7. to develop transversial skills of youth workers and youth. The objectives of our project have been strongly connected with Europe 2020 strategy that emphasises smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as a way to overcome the structural weaknesses in Europe's economy. The aimed results were for KA2 projects, because we intended to use innovative approach to address our target groups (by an online interactive educational platform), and the project also increased the capacity and professionalism of our partnership organizations.