Revitalization and entrepreneurship for deprived European rural áreas. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Revitalization and entrepreneurship for deprived European rural áreas.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Rural development and urbanisation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The data show that rural areas in Europe are undergoing demographic change, the greatest impact of which is depopulation and a population ageing. This demographic change represents a challenge and the urgency of implementing policies based on an approach of practical measures that incorporate the fight against unwanted depopulation as a principle to be considered in the different plans and lines of action of governments. It is important to point out how the fact of having a low population in rural areas is currently an element that prevents the vital development of its citizens producing an inequality of opportunities and access to public services, especially on education and health, with respect to urban areas. In this way, the pooling between different European rural areas affected by depopulation can serve to contrast diagnoses, responses and promote a learning network that inspires shared, innovative and contextualized actions on the territory.
In this sense, the REDERA+ project seeks to generate a learning network focused on improving access to an effectiveness of vocational education and training (VET) in sparsely populated rural areas in order to strengthen social inclusion and ensuring economic sufficiency (economic sustainability), social sustainability, and environmental sustainability and contributing to the fixation of the population in these areas by means of solid VET rural systems. To this end, a STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION has been established with 7 partners from different European regions in 5 countries (Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany and Slovenia). These partners have been analysing the problems of rural territories for some time and developing measures. Sharing the problems, contrasting diagnoses and EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES that are developed in different contexts will allow the main objective of the project to be achieved: TO GENERATE A KNOWLEDGE THAT WILL SERVE SO THAT THINLY POPULATED RURAL AREAS CAN DESIGN A MODEL AND QUALITY OFFER OF SPECIFIC VET TO THEIR NEEDS. This knowledge will be generated from short joint training events (STE) that will be organized by each partner in their region. The STE will allow direct contact with good practices in the contexts in which they are carried out and interaction with experts and testimonies may provide participants with learning and skills to contribute decisively to the phase of knowledge to generate a possible model and supply of VET appropriate to depopulated rural areas. The main topics of the STE will revolve around the two secondary objectives of the project:
1) to provide tools to stakeholders in rural territories to INCREASE THE CAPACITY TO OFFER TRAINING SERVICES to inhabitants based on mobilizing adequate professional skills to carry out their vital project in these areas and not be forced to leave.
2) to provide tools to rural territories so that they can MAKE MAPS OF THE COMPETENCIES NECESSARY FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND PROCEED MODELS TO ACQUISIT these skills to the residents and they should not go outside to acquire them.
At the end of the STE, a final PEER REVIEW report will be drawn up containing a description of the good practices identified, the analyses and evaluations carried out by each participating partner and their successful guidelines in relation to their sustainability and transferability in relation to the objectives pursued.
It should be noted that the generation of knowledge proposed by the project will be carried out from a multidisciplinary and multiactor approach provided by a selection of partners that has taken into account their different typologies and expertise:
a) Public administrations with experience in the planning, design and implementation of specific training public policies for rural areas: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (lead partner), Agenzia Pieminte Lavoro (Italy) and the Provincia Autónoma di Trento (Italy).
b) Training centres with experience in the identification of professional competences, generation of training offer and in models for the implementation of this offer in rural areas: ABU (Germany) and Osnova Šola Lovrenc na Pohorju (Slovenia).
c) Organisations with experience in the design and management of a tailored VET’s offer to territory and in the detection of professional skills needs: Tirantes (the Netherlands) and Notus (Spain).
At the end of the project, its results are expected to be included in two non-intellectual products: 1) Report of Best Practices analysed and 2) Policy Recommendations Report. These products will be disseminated through various communication actions at local (local associations) and European level (final conference) and their availability and free access will be guaranteed on the project website.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154940 Eur

Project Coordinator

VICECONSEJERIA DE EMPLEO Y RELACIONES LABORALES & Country: ES

Project Partners

• AGENZIA PIEMONTE LAVORO ENTE STRUMENTALE REGIONE PIEMONTE
• NOTUS
• TIRANTES
• OSNOVNA SOLA LOVRENC NA POHORJU
• PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO
• ABU Akademie für Berufsförderung und Umschulung gGmbH