Rural 3.0 is set as a knowledge alliances between different European Universities and rural partners, each with a different history, different experiences with rural social entrepreneurship and/or rural service learning (SL), different educational systems and community needs which are unique regarding the location, politics, and economics of different rural communities.
Despite these differences, while keeping them in mind by analyzing national similarities and differences, by teaming up our competences, Rural 3.0 consortium will create a rural service learning and teaching model that combines the strengths of SL strategy (teamwork, critical thinking, networking, initiative) with social entrepreneurship (SE) and that should be applicable to all partner countries.
The project will set up a common framework and online space at the European level to stimulate rural social entrepreneurship, the development of the core skills of the rural residents, and to make university students responsive to the needs of rural areas while working with the rural communities to develop sustainable economic, social and environmental solutions.
