Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas

The project will implement two certificated, diverse entrepreneurship training programmes and one mentors training programme with intense cross-border networking. The programme will consist of face-to-face workshops, online cross-border trainings, mentoring, networking and intensive courses as well as individual work. After the training, the participants finalise their own business plan.
The project will be implemented by eight partners from four Central Baltic -countries, EMÜ from Estonia being the lead partner. Ruralia will devise the training programme and provide expertise to the training and mentoring modules regarding rural business and community embeddedness. Six regional organisations (Lahemaa and Soomaa national parks(EE); Gauja national park (LT); Företagsam Skärgård Åland and Kehittämisyhdistys Sepra (FIN); Söderhamn municipality (SWE)) –are responsible for conducting the local level project activities. The project is co-funded from Interreg Cenral Baltic -programme.