Eco-Entrepreneurship for Rural Development – Capacity Building on for Youth NGOs

Social entrepreneurs find innovative solutions to pressing social problems. Eco-entrepreneurs find innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems. Many Eco-Entrepreneurs address both social and environmental issues at the same time. They may improve life or economic opportunities for marginalized populations while simultaneously addressing an environmental issue. Eco-entrepreneurs can implement several business ideas in this direction with green technologies but when considering the local impact, the usage of ecotourism is striking and worthy of note. On the other hand, implementing eco-tourism applications rather than mass tourism applications will not destroy but preserve the cultural heritages and also national resources..
With the project, we would like to carry out this project to address three issues : Rural Development, Eco-Tourism and Entrepreneurship to promote eco-tourism focused eco-entrepreneurship among young people with increasing the capacities of Youth NGOs in this field. As we are based in Ayvalık one of the most well-known area in relation with eco-tourism in Turkey, we would like to show our local experiences with the Youth NGOs and the NGOs working in Ecological field to increase their capacities in the field of eco-tourism, rural development and entrepreneurship and develop their capacities in this direction.
The training course on eco-entrepreneurship will be implemented and during the training course following themes will be worked on: eco-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, eco-tourism, ecology, rural development, poverty and rural youth, Erasmus+ Programme. The mobility will be implemented for 8 days ( including arrival and departure times ) between 10 of February 2018 – 17 of February 2018.