General objective of the project was to improve capacity of women living in border areas through creating high quality and easily accessible learning opportunities for sustainable rural tourism Specific objectives were: - To create high quality training methodology and digital platform for women living in border areas for sustainable rural tourism - To educate pilot group of women from border areas of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia for sustainable rural tourism Project aimed to contribute to the priority “Improving the availability of high quality learning opportunities for adults”. In addition, Project contributed to the two more themes: - Creating and promoting learning opportunities among all citizens and generations – since Project provided new approach in education and support to women in border areas to improve their skills and knowledge for rural tourism - Stimulating innovative learning and teaching practices – since Project provided modern way of support to women to switch from traditional agriculture-based households to more advanced – tourism-oriented approach which can create better possibilities to improve their incomes and quality of life in general.
Rural tourism provides valuable commercial and employment opportunities for people in rural areas that are confronted with the growing challenges. Without these opportunities, people may be forced to relocate to more populous areas, often resulting in separated families and economic leakage in the local community. Having in mind EU environment policies and the rural tourism, the aim of the project was to create a knowledge base for starting family projects, going towards sustainability. Rural tourism enables valorization of women’s work in rural households and creation of new jobs and their employment. Economic effects of female entrepreneurship which is created in rural tourism and activities relating to it are women’s securing of their economic empowerment. In order to give an impulse to the rural tourism development, empowering women through education was seen as the first and most important step. Since the Erasmus+ Program supports training assignments at adult education organizations, the opportunity for support of courses and training is recognized as a good chance to design an innovative training program focused on women from border area of three partner countries and on rural tourism.