"Empower the Land - a straightway to employment and entrepreneurship in rural areas" is a 7-day training course which will be held in Izki, Ukraine on the 20-26th of February 2020. It will gather 50 youth workers from 10 countries. The project will be based on non-formal education methodology and techniques. To our main methods belong open space, experiential learning, practical workshops, working in small groups and in plenary, open discussions, debates, simulations, role plays, etc. The objectives of the project are: - To improve the abilities of youth workers, activists and young people from rural areas to increase their chances to get employed or make their own projects ; - To give the tools and techniques on how to reach low unemployment rates in rural areas ; - To challenge young people to face unemployment reasons and related problems for understanding the lack of knowledge or experience and start to develop them ; - To empower young people with the means of non-formal education; - To identify the real needs of youth workers working with rural youth and to assess their capacities; - To understand the real needs of the rural job market and to discover the way to meet those needs; - To motivate youth workers to take part in social changes aiming at increasing youth employability by exploring their leadership potential ; - To create new projects designed to lower the unemployment rates and keep youth to develop their rural homeland; The whole project is mainly practice-oriented and is a platform for generating and developing new ideas for rural development. On the one hand, the course workshops will equip participants with some practical skills. On the other hand, they will provide participants with new tools and ideas which they can use in their youth work or when designing youth projects, for example, the workshop for designing a project. Through sharing experiences and searching for common solutions participants will improve their understanding of rural development and employment in remote areas. The non-formal education activities, such as getting to know each other games and ice-breakers, team-building exercises, workshops, presentations (prepared by the participants), group work, study visits, reflection sessions, etc., will provide a variety of ways in which participants will acquire new skills, knowledge, and competences and learn to analyse the rural development and unemployment from different perspectives. It should be added that most of the activities, not only the intercultural evening but also group work and study visits in Ukrainian province, for example, will have a strong intercultural learning component. Cooperation with locals and learning from Ukrainian projects implemented by international initiative groups will show the way also for our participants. The significance of the informal evening activities should not be underestimated either, as it will bring additional value to the intercultural experience of communication and cooperation.