New Crops - Social entrepreneurship to create new opportunities for socially excluded in rural areas
The purpose orienting the project was to provide trainers, managers and managers to be of start-up groups of coops and social enterprises with the knowledge and skills necessary to establish and run successful organisations/social businesses that deliver economic and social results to their members and generate work opportunities in rural areas. For this reason the partnership designed and tested innovative methodologies of learning, in this working sector where traditional competences should be supplemented with a deep participatory approach, an ethical outlook and a keen innovation spirit.
Target Group: Members or future members of cooperatives or social enterprises from rural areas.
Results and main activities:
- Identify and promote 40 best practices from the 4 partner countries;
- Documenting 16 successful business models as case studies, used in the creation of the training materials
- Developing new training materials - 2 start-up guides for farmers cooperatives and other rural social enterprises.
- Developing an European Toolkit for Starting Up Cooperatives and Social Enterprises in Rural Areas, available at national and European level.
- The documentary and learning film "The Story of a New Crop"
Beneficiary: Civil Society Development Foundation (Romania)
Partners: Federazione Trentina Della Cooperazione (Italy), Universidad De Almeria (Spain), Asociacion De Organizaciones De Productores De Frutas Y Hortalizas Dealmeria – Coexphal (Spain) and Coompanion Kooperativ Utveckling Skaraborg (Sweden)
Funding: The project was funded through the Erasmus+ programme.
Duration: September 2014 - August 2017
Contact details:
Civil Society Development Foundation
Irina Sinziana Opincaru, researcher
Tel.: 021.310.01.81
Email: irina.opincaru@fdsc.ro