Summary

 Objectives: What do you want to achieve by implementing the project?

SODEPOL partnership aims at:

1- Developing strategies to retain and attract population to our catchment areas.

2- Implementing workshops to help our learners understand the importance of the rural environment.

3- Encouraging our learners to exchange their perspectives on urban vs rural environments.

4- Creating a booklet with guidelines, recommendations and strategies to fight depopulation.

5- Working on a change of perspective regarding the primary sector jobs towards an appreciation of them.

 

Implementation: What activities are you going to implement?

1-Kick off meeting: crucial to build stronger foundations, to clarify the workshops and their questionnaires.

2-Workshops: interconnected and progressively sequenced: rural-urban perspectives exchange; visit exemplary farms; and a demonstration of the feasibility of setting up and making a rural business work due to effective and efficient use of digital tools.

3-Final event: to exchange reflections and conclusions and to present our SODEPOL booklet and blog, which has witnessed our whole project.

 

Results: What results do you expect your project to have?

1- Creation of an enriching, constructive and long term partnership.

2- Implementation and completion of practical workshops by local rural and outside urban participants.

3-Change the poor perspective most of our learners have regarding rurally working and living while creating inter-cultural and generational bridges.

4- Development of an ever growing blog and a practical guidance booklet to really help fighting depopulation and getting a certain rural vs urban balance in our catchment areas.