The main objective of this project proposal is to create, develop and give access to training, capitalization and support resources for rural women living in the Mediterranean rural areas (Spain, France and Greece). Indeed, those territories have undergone profound changes since the end of the 20th century, having moved from mono - agricultural activities to multi - activity and tertiarisation (tourism, leisure activities, personal services) but also moved, due to the acceleration of connectivity and mobility, to spaces of ecological, cultural and social transitions. This context has strongly transformed the social relations of gender present in these territories (emancipation of women, recognition of their rights as an entrepreneur) and modified the relations between urban and rural. However, stereotypes are still very strong on rural women, who are often associated in the collective imagination, with an outdated image ("the nerd country woman"). Thus, this project aims to question the place given to rural women in the media and European public policies, and to capitalize with three rural women's groups, which propose shared tools to accompany, make changes with and for women entrepreneurs in these territories, the knowledge that will be the support of the training for adults. The European comparison will make it possible to understand the possible levers for these collectives and to estimate their impacts locally for each territory (Ardèche, Catalonia, Thessaloniki). This approach will be based on an action-research methodology, collaborative and participatory, aiming to relate these transformations. Its objective is to develop a portfolio of European women's skills in rural areas, to establish visual and digital teaching materials (Webdocumentary, teaser, Mooc) with women in order to develop a rural women's training network. All these exchanges and works will take place in a social and territorial innovation center called the "European women living lab" of the rural campus (Ardèche, Cermosem).
The NetRaw project, Network for Rural Active Women, aims to create, develop and provide access to training, capitalisation and support resources for women living in Mediterranean rural areas (Spain, Greece, France). Indeed, the profound changes in these areas have transformed gender relations and modified urban/rural relations. The NetRAW project and its 4 partners, Cermosem: Campus rural de l'Université Grenoble Alpes (Ardèche, France), the association Grains d'Ici (Ardèche, France), Resilience Earth (Olot, Spain), the Ergani centre (Thessaloniki, Greece) have therefore questioned during 3 years the place of women in these territories and their visibility. More precisely, the core concern of this network was to change the way rural women are considered by collectively working on key objectives : to fight against stereotypes, to propose answers to their needs for skills acquisition, to empower them, to promote their activities, to create shared learning on the media. The collective working approach has adopted the principle of the shared and collaborative construction of all research, training and mediation productions. Their desire to give women access to lifelong learning resulted in the setting up of two training sessions offered to 35 women from the partners' rural territories. Their questioning resulted in the production of resources (non-digital and digital) for women and those involved in support and territorial development, all in 4 languages. In particular, they produced 3 magazines, the PLIs, featuring portraits of women; a web documentary to address, in an interactive way, gender stereotypes and rurality; a photo exhibition to compare portraits of local rural women entrepreneurs; a research based on a corpus of written press articles which confirmed the hypothesis of the invisibility of women's place in the media; the creation of a digital educational resource, i.e., the MOOC "Women and rural territories in Europe", available on the "fun-mooc" platform, which responds to the need for access to academic and professional knowledge on the subject. Finally, their latest production is the creation of a resource and networking platform for European rural women: the "rural women's living lab". These numerous resources created, accessible free of charge, will enable women in rural Europe to train, exchange, share and undertake collectively. Finally, they contribute to changing the way women living in rural territories are considered.