Harnessing the Potential of Youth Social Entrepreneurship for Rural Economies

Through the Rural Impact project, our aim is to provide rurally based young VET learners with access to targeted, quality VET programmes that will help to build their skills to be successful socia...

Through the Rural Impact project, our aim is to provide rurally based young VET learners with access to targeted, quality VET programmes that will help to build their skills to be successful social entrepreneurs. Through the business incubation projects planned in WP4, we also aim to support these young social entrepreneurs to access important business development supports that are often lacking in rural areas. We also aim to support VET providers to tailor their VET offer to rural areas.

We will develop these results: No.1 - Social Entrepreneurship e-Modules for Rural Youth Entrepreneurs – 10 e-Modules, each of 60-90 minutes in duration, addressing key topics to build the social entrepreneurship skills or VET learners. No.2 – Up-skilling for VET Professionals so that they can deliver the social entrepreneurship training programme to VET learners based in rural areas. No.3 - Rural Impact Incubators to provide a tangible link to young entrepreneurs who complete online modules.