UP-RURAL!

The rural areas facing with challenges like: Demographic change, Connectivity, Low-income levels, Limited access to services, but also opportunities like: producing high quality food and non-food products and contribute to the richness and diversity of European culture; ensuring stewardship of natural resources and mitigating the effects of climate change.

In this respect, the PROJECT GOAL is to increase the number of trained and certified “community development officers” in rural area by providing training and certification for this occupation to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. This will create a long-term impact on their local communities:
­ Raise awareness about the opportunities arising from transition and green, sustainable and digital Europe
­ Help community members to create and finance local business, taking the opportunities of the transition to a green, sustainable and digital Europe; this will lead to retention of population on the rural area and balanced distribution of population, better employment rate and increased incomes for local entrepreneurs and their employees
­ – Increasing connectivity between LAGs and stakeholders in Europe, helping communities to work and innovate into European single Market and not isolated by guidance and case study, success stories, finding partners, etc. – Facilitating the access to consultancy and training