Sustaining Community Development: Taking Innovative Community Enterprise to the next level in the Czech Republic
Just as rural development is a process, so too the cooperation between the two institutions is a process in which together they will increase their competence to support vocational change and innovative entrepreneurship skills in their respective rural regions. Our previous collaboration generated student feedback which suggests that there is a demand for further support in the form of a network. Existing networks of rural entrepreneurs have focused only on specific regions or on existing businesses. Therefore, this project will focus on non-existent or early-stage start-up businesses and have a national scope, as identified by existing participants in the sector. Therefore, the two institutions will work together to understand and create the necessary infrastructure and information needs of rural entrepreneurs. This will serve both the institutions themselves, and the rural communities which need that support.
Sustaining Community Development: Taking Innovative Community Enterprise to the next level in the Czech Republic
http://www.ponave.cz
Just as rural development is a process, so too the cooperation between the two institutions is a process in which together they will increase their competence to support vocational change and innovative entrepreneurship skills in their respective rural regions. Our previous collaboration generated student feedback which suggests that there is a demand for further support in the form of a network. Existing networks of rural entrepreneurs have focused only on specific regions or on existing businesses. Therefore, this project will focus on non-existent or early-stage start-up businesses and have a national scope, as identified by existing participants in the sector. Therefore, the two institutions will work together to understand and create the necessary infrastructure and information needs of rural entrepreneurs. This will serve both the institutions themselves, and the rural communities which need that support.
Donor
DZS - Norvegian Funds
Duration
January 2016 – September 2016
Responsible in CUEC
Project description
The overall objective of the project is for the two institutions to develop and share knowledge on supporting vocational change for residents of rural areas which are facing developmental and demographic challenges. The project will deliver innovative new ways of supporting rural economic development, through network building, contributing to the social sustainability of the rural regions the two institutions serve, as well as creating a further basis for ongoing cooperation between them. It will strengthen the human capital and knowledge base not only for the two institutions, but also for the communities they serve, thereby helping rural residents create a thriving local rural economy which retains its young people and offers new and innovative opportunities for them to realize their dreams.
This project will consolidate the inter-institutional cooperation begun in the first EEA-Czech project.
Project web page: http://www.ponave.cz
