PROJECT NAME: Empowering Rural Tourism through Entreprenuership with Youth
PROJECT CODE: 2020-1-TR01-KA205-091140
PROJECT ACRONYM: RURAL YOUTH
DURATION: 24 MONTHS
BUDGET: 160.645,00 €
NATIONAL AGENCY OF THE APPLICANT ORGANISATION: TR01 THE CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN UNION EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMMES (TURKISH NATIONAL AGENCY)
MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT: INNOVATION
PROJECT AIM AND GOALS:
The project RURALYOUTH forms a lifelong education system for tourism students who would like to be an entrepreneur in rural areas so the effective open-source education system as the output of the project provides improvement of the quality and efficiency of education and training as being indicated under the 2020 European Cooperation in education and training. According to the creativity and innovation features of the project, RURALYOUTH offers education and training at all level on the open access system. This social inclusive education system provides new opportunities for being entrepreneurs at international level with the social aspect.
The project RURALYOUTH 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 5 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. In order to support rural development and increase employment in rural areas, it is aimed to increase tourism activities in rural areas with entrepreneurship training modules to be created in the perspective of rural tourism. In order to achieve this goal, training modules will be designed together with partner organizations and training will be provided to students and entrepreneur candidates through the online training platform. The main target group of the project is all young people between the ages of 18-30 who want to be an entrepreneur in rural areas.
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