Empowering Rural Tourism through Entrepreneurship with Youth
The Erasmus+ project „RURALYOUTH” (“Empowering Rural Tourism through Entrepreneurship with Youth”) 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.
Erasmus+ project „RURALYOUTH” live events in 2022:
The “Train the Trainer” activity of the international Erasmus + project “Ruralyouth” was organised in České Budějovice, Czech Republic in August, 2022. The training activity was organized by the project partners from ProEdu (Czech Republic).
The 4th transnational meeting of the Rural Youth project was hold at the Department of Architecture and Design Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, in November, 2022. The meeting attended colleagues from Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Proeduca (Czech Republic), Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), Slovak University of Technology (Slovakia), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland).
Empowering Rural Tourism through Entrepreneurship with Youth “RURALYOUTH” project has finalized with the International Rural Entrepreneurship Summit held in December, 2022, at Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey). There Lithuanian RURALYOUTH team has presented rural tourism development project idea and took the second place of the International Rural Entrepreneurship Summit.
The project coordinator: Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey), project partners: Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), ProEduca z.s. (Czech Republic).
