Agriculture is our culture

About the project

Agriculture is our culture is an Erasmus+ European youth project addressing Agriculture, forestry and fisheries, Rural development and urbanisation and Social entrepreneurship / social innovation. It was developed to this what we and our partners aim for – introducing a new perspective to young people and encouraging them to enter agriculture and rural development is mainly what “Agriculture is our culture” strives for. The project uses non-formal education and international cooperation to turn these themes into practical learning, organisational development and community-level action.

Objectives

* The main objective of the youth exchange is to empower disadvantaged and vulnerable youth, in particular, youth with fewer opportunities, living in rural areas, and help them start a career in the agricultural sector and begin to consider living, working, and developing in rural areas as a valuable option.
* By implementing this project we want to empower young people to actively participate in the rural development of their countries.
* For Academy for active youth, helping our participants to learn and gain more from their roots therefore what rural development can offer is one of our most important objectives.
* This is why on this exchange our main objective is to motivate and encourage youth into rural and agricultural development by showing them successful practices from real life, introducing them to peers who have ideas in action for rural development.
* To provide information, activities, and informal practices that are going to engage the participants and empower them to contribute to the agricultural sector of their communities.
* Academy for active youth has as objective to achieve broad dissemination results in which our participants, by using the peer-to-peer technique are going to spread the knowledge and their thoughts on the topic to their peers, which is naturally going to make more youth attracted to the idea of starting a career in rural action and agriculture inspired by doing an Erasmus+ project.

Activities

* International non-formal learning activities involving participants and partner organisations.
* Practical workshops, collaborative work and reflection connected to the project themes.
* Follow-up and dissemination activities within the participating communities.

Impact

We sincerely wish for the project to have a strong impact on the participants – how they work in a group, how they make decisions, how they work in actual agricultural and rural surroundings, and how do they act in a new situation. The soft skills, entrepreneurship knowledge, and agricultural experience are expected to adapt and scale up new ways of promoting youth engagement in agriculture and on a broader level. The project aims to have an impact on rural and remote areas that usually lack informal practices, education, and teachings about agriculture, rural development, and social entrepreneurship. Ideally, it would promote non-formal practices and ways of learning among rural youth with fewer opportunities.

Project partners

• 🇧🇬 Academy for active youth association
  Bulgaria
• 🇹🇷 TUNA
  Türkiye
• 🇪🇸 Asociación Socio-Cultural VerdeSur Alcalá
  Spain
• 🇨🇿 Czech Youth Association z.s.
  Czechia
• 🇸🇪 Wise Academy
  Sweden
• 🇱🇹 VSI INOVACIJU BIURAS
  Lithuania