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The increased need to ensure social, food and environmental security, places the rural communities as hotspot for designing sustainable development practices at local level. In this context, two relevant remarks conducted to the project design:
- the low level of education on environmental quality in local disadvantaged communities and the need of active participation of the population in debates on the Environmental Impact Assessment reports.
- the need of relevant information on the Romanian national strategy of social inclusion and poverty reduction in these communities.
The Transilvania University of Brasov (RO) jointly with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (RO), the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi (RO) and the Reykjavik University (IS) concluded a partnership to exchange knowledge and best practice between stakeholders and professional networks in order to offer quality education on environment protection in rural communities.
Through educational means, the project team is providing free of charge training (6 Open Educational Resources, OERs) to local administration and community leaders for a better understanding of the environmental protection in their community, 1 e-learning platform hosting the teaching modules, 1 set of policy recommendations on environmental projects implementation and on citizens involvement in maintaining the environment clean in rural communities. 4 conference papers will be submitted to specialised pier reviewed journals, as well as 2 multiplier events and 2 workshops will be organised to facilitate the transfer of basic scientific information to the local community.
The institutional cooperation project will bring positive and long-lasting benefits to the participating organisations, to the administrative systems in which such actions are framed and to the persons directly or indirectly involved in the activities, and will strengthen the bilateral cooperation between Romania and Iceland.