The project's specific objectives were: - To improve key competences and self-esteem among our adult staff and local people in an evidence-based manner; - To stimulate ideas for community development models basing on traditional resources and new modern, dynamic elements; - To encourage their social entrepreneurial spirit, competences, and related mentoring ability; - To increase mobility and awareness about European opportunities among local people living in less developed areas through Erasmus+.
The project took roots from the urge for a positive social change to be brought about by enhanced skills and community cooperation in order to extend equal opportunity and social inclusion to adults in search of jobs, especially the rural ones who are left behind as a consequence of the recent economic slowdown. Entrepreneurship, or job-creation was promoted as an effective alternative to overcome the issue of job scarcity. With this project our primary aim was to enrich our adult staff and local participants with up-to-date knowledge of social entrepreneurship and concrete NFE skills in order to make them the right catalyst for putting into motion and/or guiding fellow community members to activate sustainable social enterprises. In addition, the project implementation was also aimed at promoting cultural, social and ethnic diversity among participants through the use of diversified forms and methods of personal expression, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity.