The project has 3 main objectives:
1. Exchange good practices between the three NGOs about how to promote “sustainable communities” and involve them in rural areas (map and analyse the situation in the three countries by gathering and sharing good practices)
2. Raise the capacity of local communities and staff members in rural areas to face climate change challenges by facilitating access to existing educational resources and practices
3. Networking and experiencing transnational cooperation
What we hope to achieve in 2024
Upskilling of professionals: at least 6 educators (2 per country) will participate in the 2 transnational upskilling training sessions on how to increase local communities’ resilience and how to involve them to reach sustainable agenda goals.
Empowering citizens: the gained/developed skills by educators/professionals will be experimented with the final beneficiaries, so at least 30 citizens (10 per country) will be trained.
Organisational development: participating organisations, at least two of them are newcomers, and their staff will gain competences in managing projects at a European level (management, partnership, collaboration and language skills),
Networking: setting up a collaboration relation with EU organisations, with participating target groups as well as building a strong local and European partnership to continue deploying and scaling the RURAL’COM project.
Visibility and new opportunities: dissemination and exploitation activities foreseen will allow partners to generate visibility for their own organisations, both at national and European levels.