RuralYouth: Empowering rural tourism through entrepreneurship with youth
2019-1-TR-KA203-073781
The project is implemented within the program Erasmus+
2020 - 2022
Project webpage: https://ruralyouth.ogu.edu.tr/
Project Bio
The project RURALYOUTH forms a lifelong education system for tourism students who would like to be entrepreneurs in rural tourism in EU.
During the project, the RURALYOUTH team developed several tools helping young entrepreneurs upgrade their skills in rural tourism and creating a healthy way of acquiring a new profession and qualifications.
Within the project, young student and tourism entrepreneurs have been trained in the newly designed training program with the help of several additional materials, such as investpedia and ruralpedia. The training program improve their knowledge in agro-tourism through an alternative and innovative way of learning.
The set of the project outputs represent a useful tool to guide young tourism students in sustainable business development in agro-tourism and related activities.
More specifically, the results of the RURALYOUTH project contribute to:
- promotion of rural tourism among youth;
- promotion of entrepreneurship in rural tourism;
- identification of business opportunities based on successful examples of entrepreneurship in rural tourism;
- increase of education level in rural tourism;
- provision of a unique e-learning platform for tourism students and entrepreneurs;
- raising awareness about entrepreneurial opportunities in rural tourism;
- creation of strong cooperation within the EU.
The main outcome of the project is the creation of equal opportunities in flexible learning, open learning and e-learning for young people in the field of rural tourism and entrepreneurship in rural tourism.
Partnership
The RuralYouth project includes six partners from different European countries:ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITESI, Turkey
UNIWERSYTET WARMINSKO MAZURSKI W OLSZTYNIE, Poland
ProEduca, Czech Republic
VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS, Lithuania
SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE, Slovakia
Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality, TurkeyThe consortium members were selected from institutions that are active in rural areas, able to create educational content and perform technology-based initiatives.
Main project outputs are available in
Articulate Rise version on the project web page.
Output 1: Rural Entreprenuership and Tourism Guide Book
This handbook will help candidates of rural entrepreneurship to produce their rural and touristic products in environmental–friendly way and in a sustainable way.
Output 2: Rural Tourism Entreprenuership Training Programme-
The training programme provides practical contents to the users with the necessary tools in order to apply their own creative ideas to rural tourism destinations.
Output 3: RURALYOUTH E-Learning Platform
The platform allows training in an e-learning format, providing access and knowledge of all content, modules and training resources. Through an interactive, dynamic and digital approach, trainees have access to all training and guidance contents and materials.
All project outputs will be available as an open source in December 2022.
International Rural Entrepreneurship Summit
Preliminary Program
DAY 1, December 14, 2022
9:30 Registration
10:00 Opening Speeches-Ruralyouth Project Process Presentation - (Project General Information, Project Results, Event Information)
11:00 Youth Projects-Being Young in Projects!
12:00 (EU Project Information, ESC Opportunities and Rerural Project Participants Presentation)
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Rural Entrepreneurship Panel
16:00 Fieldtrip
DAY 2, December 15, 2022
9:30 Idea Contest Presentations
11:30 Jury Evaluation Results - Award Ceremony
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Fieldtrip