The project RURALYOUTH forms a lifelong education system for tourism students who would like to be an entrepreneur in rural areas so the effective open-source education system as the output of the project provides improvement of the quality and efficiency of education and training as being indicated under the 2020 European Cooperation in education and training. According to the creativity and innovation features of the project RURALYOUTH offers education and training at all level on the open access system. This social inclusive education the system provides new opportunities for being entrepreneurs at international level with the social aspect. The project RURALYOUTH 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 5 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.
The RURALYOUTH Project prioritized the creation of the training program that young people need to learn about rural tourism entrepreneurship and start their own ventures, the examination of good practices and the development of young people as rural entrepreneurs. For this reason, all consortium members worked together to develop an open and online access training platform, produced the needed materials, and diligently continued the necessary work for the project to reach more audiences. The achievements we want to achieve with this project are as follows: * Establishment of the rural tourism entrepreneurship training program needed by the European Union *Designing events for European Youth Strategies *Compiling and sharing the training and knowledge needed to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem for young people to take an active role in rural areas and to prevent migration from rural to urban areas. * Raising awareness about rural tourism entrepreneurship *Bringing rural communities, entrepreneurs, young people and local governments together *Producing high-efficiency outputs by working with external and internal evaluators * Dissemination of project outputs
Entrepreneurship plays an important role in ensuring the development of rural areas and increasing employment opportunities. Creating entrepreneurial ecosystems in a sector that supports rural development such as tourism is very important especially for young people. Rural entrepreneurship training is needed for young people to open their own businesses with rural tourism entrepreneurship and to create employment in rural areas. Equality of opportunity will be provided to young people by making this education open access and accessible to many young people. The lack of an open access education in the field of rural tourism entrepreneurship with our research has led to the emergence of the RURALYOUTH project. With the development and implementation of the RURALYOUTH project, the main goal of the project is to create a training program that will be needed by young people, youth workers, entrepreneur candidates and existing entrepreneurs in the field of rural tourism entrepreneurship and to integrate this training program into its online and open access platform. Thus, creating equal opportunities for young people has become the priority of the project consortium.