The circular economy presents an opportunity for rural regions to overcome the challenges of reversing biodiversity declines and mitigating climate change, while producing sufficient food at the same time. By providing new jobs and income in rural areas, it can also foster economic development.
Need assessment implemented during project preparation clearly showed that circular economy is not included in local policies and practices yet. Rural population (especially woman) doesn’t participate in policy making process to greening rural economy.
Because of that, the Project is mainly focused on rural population (mostly woman) in five Eastern European countries. The aim of the project is to boosting rural population participation and creation of stronger bottom-up approach and more inclusive policy making process for greening rural economy.
The project will gather at least 420 participants within 5 countries. They will have unique opportunity to exchange experiences on how to create a greener Union by focusing on the citizens participation in new development initiatives and introducing a new business model and greening rural economy.
Main Project activities are:
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