Motivation for Creation

This is an 8 days training course that will take place in a beautiful rural area of West Stara planina mountain. We will gather 18 youth workers, youth leaders and project managers from 6 different countries, all with similar experiences, interests or future plans in working with young people who live in remote/rural or not developed areas. The aim of the project is to promote creative entrepreneurship through non-formal education with young people living in rural areas and in the same time to build new partnerships among the participants. On return of this course, we want participants to enable groups of young people from their countries to create their own successful business or social project, while also giving young people the confidence and creative entrepreneurial skills they need, which in-turn will be useful for their personal and professional lives. The main objectives of the training course are: • Identifying the main challenges and opportunities of working with young people in rural areas • Discussion on existing entrepreneurial business or social projects made in different rural area setting, and the possibility of creatively developing new projects within EU countries • Discussions on what are the creative skills and resources needed by young people to develop their own projects, and how to provide or signpost them to access to training, mentoring and funding • Making new partners and contacts with similar interest and use this opportunity to set up further events such as training, seminar, exchange and networking • Sharing best practice and identify a preferred method for communication or platform to share resources and ideas We are looking for partners & participants from EU member countries. The working language of this course is English, so participants will need to be influent in it. Participants are also expected to attend the full duration of the events.