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Reviving of cultural heritage: Social and Economic Empowerment of Rural Areas

2021-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-0000264942021Cooperation partnerships in adult educationfinalizedGood practice
Countries: ES|TR|IT|SK|EL|AT · Grant: €248,105
Cultural heritageInclusion, promoting equality and non-discriminationEmployability

Objectives

The principal aims of the Re-Cultural Heritage project are: 1- Improved employability capabilities in order to facilitate the opening-up of youth work to cross-sectoral cooperation 2- Increase adult’s competencies related to job profiles especially in the social, touristic and artistic sector 3- Guarantee new approaches to better support competitiveness in order to fill the lack of job opportunities, of these rural areas, that is pushing an entire generation in the major cities or abroad 4- Creating networking activity on education, entrepreneurship, leadership and equal opportunities 5- Improve practices to cater for the needs of vulnerable groups, with fewer opportunities in order to address gaps in learning performance caused by regional and socioeconomic inequalities and to facilitating the access to different labour markets 6- Increasing the employment opportunities adapting them to the post-Covid-19 demand 7- Increasing the sense of inheritance and historical values, especially in the rural areas where the heritage it is not seen as a means that can be used for their own prosperity

Background

Re-Cultural Heritage seeks to improve the cohesion of the local communities through educational paths that support the personal development of teachers, citizens and minorities towards employment and labor market integration. Furthermore, the intent is to build a strategy of economic and employment development linked to quality tourism and to underline the role that a proper appreciation of cultural heritage can play in the economic regional development. The project addresses the following needs: 1- The increasing abandonment of rural areas, caused by urbanization and the lack of job opportunities, especially for younger generations 2- The necessity to include minorities in the economic system by developing training paths, in order to access employment and interaction at the social level 3- Promoting awareness on the importance of cultural heritage in innovative and modern terms for the creation of a sustainable local economy 4- Training adults in the field of restoration of the historical, cultural and environmental heritage in order to create new jobs and to improve the landscape and the conservation of cultural places.

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