Main goal of 16-months project ‘Increasing Quality of Activities Targeting Rural Youth’ is to contribute to activating of young people (in age 16 - 30) coming from rural areas, from small cities, villages in participant’s countries.The consortium of the partners representing following countries Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Denmark, Kosovo and Montenegro plans to reach the goal by implementing mobility and capacity building activities. Mobility activities include one study visit, youth exchange and training course develop implemented with aim to raise competencies of the participants to respond on the needs and interests of young people in rural areas, to develop their potential through quality activities and to increase participation of young people coming from small cities, villages and remote areas in local, regional, national projects leading to their personal and professional development. Capacity building activities will include kick off meeting, series of local workshops targeting directly rural youth with aim to activate them and encourage to continue be active in their communities. Besides mobility and capacity building activities the project will include Seminar and dissemination activities in form of presentations in local communities and publishing booklet of good practices on working with rural youth.
The project ‘Increasing Quality of Activities Targeting Rural Youth’ involved youth organizations representing Serbia ‘Youth workers alliance Vranje’, North Macedonia ‘NGO Next Generation’, Kosovo ‘NGO OAPA’, Greece ‘ICSD’, Denmark ‘DRAFT Copenhagen’ and Montenegro ‘Mladiinfo Montenegro’. Main goal of the project was to contribute to activating of young people (in age 16 - 30) coming from rural areas, from small cities, villages in participant’s countries. Moreover, through series of mobility, capacity building and dissemination activities the consortium aimed to develop capacities of participants of the activities to respond on the needs and interests of young people in rural areas and to develop their potential through quality activities; to support sharing approaches methods and tools between the countries; to increase participation of young people coming from small cities, villages and remote areas in local, regional, national projects leading to their personal and professional development; to increase involvement of young people coming from small cities, villages and remote areas in decision making process in their communities and countries especially through capacity building activities and to support developing new international projects focus on rural youth. During the project time the participants representing involved organizations had the opportunity to take part in kick off meeting, training course, seminar and study visit. Young people from participating communities had also chance to explore realities of other participating countries by taking part in youth exchange. In way to strengthen the impact of the project the partners also realized series of capacity building and dissemination activities at local level. Besides increased competences of directly involved participants of mobility and capacity building activities, developed capacities of involved organizations in the area of working with rural youth the project enable the organizations to share their practices and experiences, develop new project ideas and moreover to create new partnerships at local level. Key project results are available at the project website, one of the project results: http://ruralrules.online/. The project results includes set of recommendations aiming to provide rural youth new opportunities and to increase their living conditions and project booklet capturing the key lessons learned from the project activities.