Event Date: 07 December 2020 19:00 - 07 December 2020 20:00

The first transnational online Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for youth project "Empowering rural tourism through entreprenuership with youth" (acronym RURALYOUTH) meeting took place at 7th of December and was hosted by Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey).

The meeting was attended by representatives of 6 project partners, including project coordinator: Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey) and project partners: Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), ProEduca z.s. (Czech Republic). During the meeting, partners have shared their institutional presentations, as well as the representants of consortium worked on a plan for future project activities.

The project, which has a 24 monthS implementation period, forms a lifelong education system for tourism students, who would like to be the entrepreneurs in rural areas.

The project creates actions to improve knowledge of agricultural, touristic, rural, cultural and entrepreneurship among young people and will prevent miss-match for tourism students. With this project, which was formed with 6 partners, it was aimed to support the development of rural areas, to support lifelong learning, to increase awareness of the nationality through education and technology-based distance education model and to develop action plans in line with the European Youth Strategy.