Project description

Discover what aspects could retain/attract population to the villages/towns in our organisation´s catchments areas. 2. Share the activities the partner organisations are implementing that have proved to have worked out in order to retain citizens in their localities.3. Develop workshops to work on several skills that some of the partner institutions have lots of expertise on.4.Exchange of learners´ perspectives on living in a rural or urban area. 5. Creation of a booklet in English, Bulgarian, Turkish and Spanish with different sections explaining the results of EDUCOMBATION workshops as potential activities to work on the promotion of life in the rural environment. 6. Work on the promotion of a change of consideration of the primary sector jobs in our catchment area among our educational community.7. To collaborate with VET schools to connect some of their learners with us, and thus, work on the creation of intergenerational, rural-urban bridges. 8. Fight the phenomenon of NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training). As for the first selected priority, we know in our rural areas there is a strong feeling of belonging in terms of family values, traditional jobs, caring for the environment, etc. In our Turkish partner catchment area, despite being urban, they concentrate a great amount of domestic rural and foreign migrants and refugees, all bring similar values as in the rest of our partners localities. Promoting those values: inherited way of living, caring for others and for the nearby environment is one of our main aims. As in past Erasmus+ projects, we are aware of the power of simple activities involving a few but, due to the participation of local adult education centres, manage to reach more people.

The second priority aims to the creation and promotion of learning chances for different age citizens, but with a shared willingness to perpetuate their traditions. EDUCOMBATION is focused not only on that preservation of traditions, but also on a connection between the well known rural habits with current trends: digitalization of everything having to adapt to it in an artificial and drastic way. Throughout our project we plan to help our learners face all those new needs. Despite having worked on that as single organisations, we strongly believe in collaborative work to improve results.Our partner organisations have great experience in adapting teachings to help our citizens face the ever changing society. This connects with the last selected priority because we are used to creating up and reskilling cores of activities, helping our learners to improve their already acquired skills and to develop new ones. We get inspiration from our elderly learners, model of resillience, live proof of the importance of getting new skills by using already acquired ones. They are essential in our activities since they are a growing sector in the population and everyone needs to coexist with them, learning from and with them, that becomes the foundations for intergenerational bridges, preparing all sectors in society to face together the fast changing world.