Context: 1. consulted studies of the EU population indicate that the women in the rural areas are a group of social exclusion, because of lack of appropriate working activities for them. 2. In the countries involved in the project the rate of adult women in rural areas that lack the knowledge and professional experience that will fall in marginalization, will grow indefinitely. 3. Women play a fundamental role in the sustainable development of the rural environment, since they represent a 48.9% of the population of rural areas. Priorities 1. Female adults without qualification or belonging to excluded groups. In this sense there are strategic lines of action on the following issues: a. promotion of high-quality work in the field of the adult women. b. expansion of the range of opportunities for rural adult women. c. professionalization of the woman in the rural areas, taking advantage and managing those endogenous resources: tourism, forest ecology and agriculture. Objectives: 1. Learn, support, guide and promote the labour, entrepreneurial and professional activity of the female rural adult contributing to a positive vision in the performance of a job activity, fighting against unemployment. 2. Improve the education of adult women, through the development of a service-learning teaching system that combines processes of learning and service to the community. 3. Overcome the gap of gender in employment and entrepreneurship in rural areas. Target: 1. adult woman without qualifications living in rural areas. 2. Unemployed females. 3. Adult professional woman who work in rural areas without a specific qualification. 4. Disabled female adults with problems of access to the labour market. 5. Migrant women at risk of social and economic exclusion. Activities: 1. Design and operate an on‐line teaching platform for the development of an LMS (Learning Management System). 2. Develop a service-learning pedagogy that combines the academic curriculum with community service for rural adult women. 3. In each partner country a pilot activity with 10 students will be held to test the programme of non-formal entrepreneurship training in rural areas. 4. Create a specific space (Web platform of the Council of Valladolid) where to incorporate contents and results. 5. Activity information and dissemination of results: seminars, educational conferences, information brochures and posters. 7. Foster entrepreneurship in rural areas through collaboration with entrepreneurs and social agents, technical trainers, authorities of non-formal vocational training in the sector. Methodology: 1. Design and operate an on‐line teaching platform for the development of a LMS (Learning Management System). The main pillars are the development of materials and digital educational resources and advisement and training in the educational sector (in face-to-face or virtual form). 2. Develop a service-learning pedagogy that combines the academic curriculum with community service for rural adult women. 3. Carry out awareness, information and orientation towards the collective recipients, social agents and companies in the sector. 4. Make an evaluation and a quality control of the result. 5. Actions of sensitization, information and orientation towards the target group and the social partners. 6. The target groups will participate in the project through: surveys, personal interviews, specific seminars, multimedia tools and tested actions. Results: 1. Design and put in operation an on‐line teaching platform with a LMS (Learning Management System). 2. Develop a learning programme that combines community service with academic curriculum. Each of the participating partners will conduct a training, teaching and learning activity directed to 10 students. 3. Active involvement of educational authorities and social partners through the signing of project collaboration agreements (5 per partner) which will have an active participation in all phases of the project. 4. Transnational seminars: 4 to coordinate the project. Impact: 1. increase of the awareness and participation of the target group in entrepreneur processes. 2. Adult women in rural areas will benefit by learning from entrepreneurial activities through the service-learning program. 3. The project expects a positive impact on the collective group of women favoring their professional preparation and their possibilities of access to employment. Long-term benefits: 1. use of the projects tools to qualify the rural female adult. 2. Increase the number of rural adult women that are employed. 3. Enhance the work that women play in rural areas.
Context Women who live in the rural environment are key in the sustainable development of our villages and of our society as a whole, and to guarantee such sustainability it is necessary to face the inequalities that women still suffer in the rural environment even more, in Many cases, than urban women. Women play a fundamental role in the sustainable development of the rural environment, as they represent 48.9% of the population in rural areas. We must try to make rural women visible and promote the conditions to close these gaps through the necessary support measures so that rural women are not forced to leave their environment. The future of the rural environment involves creating more opportunities and improving the employment status of women, but their educational, cultural, leisure, access to technology, services and infrastructure options must also be supported. Goals - Make visible the role of rural women and disseminate it in society - Overcome the gender gap in employment - Foster women's entrepreneurship in rural areas - To improve the education of adult women, through the development of a service teaching and learning system that combines learning processes and community service - Facilitate the reconciliation of personal, work and family life Number and type / Profile of the participants Untitled adult woman living in rural areas. Unemployed women. Professional adult woman working in rural areas without a specific qualification. Adult women with problems accessing the labor market. Migrant women at risk of social and economic exclusion. Methodology: 1. Design and operate an online teaching platform for the development of an LMS (Learning Management System). The main pillars are the development of digital educational materials and resources and advice and training in the education sector (in person or virtual). 2. Develop a service-learning pedagogy that combines the academic curriculum with the community service for rural adult women. 3. Raise awareness, information and guidance towards collective recipients, social agents and companies in the sector. 4. Make an evaluation and quality control of the result. 5. Awareness, information and orientation actions towards the target group and the social partners. 6. The target groups will participate in the project through: surveys, personal interviews, specific seminars, multimedia tools and proven actions. Activities carried out 1. Design of an online teaching platform for the development of an LMS (Learning Management System). 2. Development of a service-learning pedagogy that combines the academic curriculum with the community service for rural adult women. 3. Completion of 5 pilot courses (one per country) with 10 students to evaluate the non-formal business training program in rural areas. 4. Creation of a specific space to incorporate content and results. 5. Information on activities and dissemination of results: educational conferences, information leaflets and posters. 7. Promote entrepreneurship in rural areas through collaboration with entrepreneurs and social agents, technical trainers, non-formal professional training authorities in the sector. 8. Transnational seminars: 4 to coordinate the project. Impact: 1. Increased awareness and participation of the target group (adult rural women) in entrepreneurial processes. 2. Adult women in rural areas will benefit from learning from business activities through the service and learning program. 3. The project expects a positive impact on the collective group of women that favors their professional preparation and their possibilities of access to employment. Long term benefits -Use of the tools developed in the framework of the project to qualify rural adult women. - Increase the number of rural adult women who are employed or develop a self-employment initiative in agritourism, organic farming, local heritage, socio-health care or food related to quality brands - Improve the work of women in rural areas