Best Practices Booklet on Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas

Aims of the tool

The aim of this tool is to provide youth workers and leaders with guidelines of non-formal education methods to use in their youth work when tackling issues of unemployment, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education in rural areas

Description of the tool

This best practices booklet comes as a result of the work of youth workers and leaders of the following organizations:
La Sabina de El Bonillo (Spain)
Qendrat Youth for Social Change (Albania)
Organization for Social Innovation ARNO (Macedonia)
Gmina Dabrowa (Poland)
Future and Progress (Romania)
Hellenic Youth Participation (Greece)
Iuventa Nevladina Organizacija Udruzenje (Serbia)
Asociacija Apkabink Europa (Lithuania)

It includes good practices of non formal education activities used in:
- Identifying and analyzing rural community needs
- Explaining in an interactive for what entrepreneurship is
- Creating business plans out of the participants entrepreneurial ideas and analyzing components such as risk taking, responsibility, financial matters, product development and innovation, building a structure of a business, competition)
- Making a marketing plan.