More information
Description
The Romanian rural environment needs local leaders; it needs young people from the community to benefit from multidisciplinary, non-formal and experiential training, to create a favorable context for education and development, models and long-term support. The project will increase the degree of civic education and community involvement of children and young people from the communes of Arges (Domnesti, Corbi, Pietrosani and Nucsoara). The problems of children and young people in these rural communities are related to the strictly formal education program and are based only on compulsory curricula, reduced access to information sources, shortage of modern media and ignorance of how they can be actively involved in economic and social life and the politics of the community they belong to. The CRESC project was designed and will be implemented based on the win-win strategy. The need, the problem and the beneficiaries were identified especially through direct observations and empirical research carried out "on the grassroots". The range of problems and unmet needs of young people in rural areas in terms of education and civic involvement is diverse, and the CRESC project will contribute to the partial solution of some of these problems, offering integrated activities that will include training, information and involvement of children and young people in civic education activities, social innovation, sustainable development and environmental protection. For sustainable development, it is necessary to involve every citizen, especially young people, in community problems, in finding solutions and making decisions to solve these problems. The importance of civic involvement has often been demonstrated throughout history, and in rural Romania the power of civic involvement in community life can be seen: we still have villages where people live as in the Middle Ages, but we also have villages that compete with European ones.