Youth unemployment in rural areas remains a significant challenge in both EU and non-EU countries, though the severity and underlying causes vary. In the EU, rural youth often face limited job opportunities, lower wages, and a mismatch between skills and labor market demands, exacerbated by depopulation and aging communities. Many young people migrate to urban areas in search of better prospects, leaving rural economies struggling with labor shortages and declining innovation. EU initiatives are addressing these issues by promoting entrepreneurship, digitalization, and sustainable agriculture. In non-EU countries, rural youth unemployment is often more severe due to weaker economic diversification, insufficient infrastructure, and limited access to quality education and vocational training. Informal employment dominates, offering little job security or social protection. Efforts to tackle this issue include international development programs, microfinance initiatives, and policies promoting rural industrialization. The key to improving rural youth employment lies in bridging the skills gap, enhancing digital and green economy opportunities, and supporting local entrepreneurship. Recent research shows that the euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3% in December 2024, up from 6.2% in November 2024 and down from 6.5% in December 2023. The EU unemployment rate was 5.9% in December 2024, up from 5.8% in November 2024 and down from 6.0% in December 2023. Rural youth are often more disadvantaged as they cannot afford higher education due to the costs of courses and living expenses in bigger cities. For example, Armenia's youth unemployment rate for 2022 was 24.57%, a 0.19% decline from 2021. Italy's rural youth unemployment rate for 2022 was 8.07%, a 1.43% decline from 2021. Based on these findings, "Youmore APS" NGO, together with its EU and non-EU partner organizations, planned to implement a project involving eight countries: Italy, Armenia, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Georgia, Romania, and Lithuania. The aim of the training course is to reduce the rate of unemployment among young people in rural areas by providing them and youth workers with tools and techniques to increase their chances of getting employed or starting their own projects. The objectives of the training course are: - To find solutions to the unemployment problem at personal, organizational, and community levels by monitoring real situations in different countries. - To improve the abilities of youth workers, activists, and young people from rural areas to increase their chances of getting employed or starting their own projects. - To provide tools and techniques to achieve low unemployment rates in rural areas. - To challenge young people to understand the reasons for unemployment and related problems and start developing their skills. - To empower young people through non-formal education. - To understand the real needs of the rural job market and discover ways to meet those needs. - To create new projects designed to lower unemployment rates and keep youth developing their rural homeland. The project will address the following needs: working with rural youth, creating effective CVs, the importance of non-formal education, valorizing territorial richness for new jobs, developing the rural job market, addressing unemployment in rural areas, developing remote localities, and improving infrastructure. Field visits will be organized to show participants rural local entrepreneurship created by young people, allowing them to see real work firsthand.