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Ignite the Rural Youth!

2021-1-HU01-KA153-YOU-0000319852021Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: HU|LT|MK|AM|GE|UA|BG · Grant: €37,040
Awareness about the European UnionInter-regional cooperationCommunity development

Objectives

‘’Ignite the Rural Youth’’ training course was dedicated to the empowerment of the participants to get deeper into the sphere of youth work, learning the most important key components of writing and implementing projects, understanding the essentials of youth participation and inclusion and learning the key methods used in the mentioned sphere. The main and relevant goals of the training course were to gather and engage such leaders and youth workers who have real potential and desire to become the change in this field and have impact in their communities development process, empower more youngsters and be able to create and achieve even more. Some of our main objectives were: -To increase the level of information about youth opportunities among the youth living in the regions and to promote their activities in their community helping them to understand the importance of youth programs in the developing world -To encourage them to become a transformational leaders and mobilize youth in their communities and share their knowledge and experience -To show how the youth projects can have a positive impact on their self-development, become aware of their potential, professional capacities in order to support change in their communities.-To empower young people from rural areas to become initiators takers of the community projects on rural youth empowerment, community development, youth participation and active citizenship -To exchange experience between the EU countries and Eastern Partnership countries - To increase their motivation towards rural youth development projects and prevent the desire to leave their hometown by replacing it with big cities; set an example in preventing migration -To promote social entrepreneurship among young people from rural areas as a tool for social, economic empowerment of youth and communities

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