The Launch of the \u201cRAISE Youth\u201d project took place today at the Sheraton Hotel in Zagreb, Croatia. Under the full name \u201cRural Action for Innovative and Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Youth\u201d<\/b> the project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment with 3.1 million EUR. Project duration is 40 months, ending 31. December 2021. RAISE will tackle the non-existing job market for young NEETs from rural areas facing depopulation through a social innovation involving synergy between sustainable agriculture, tourism and digital technologies, through entrepreneurship, initiating a \u201cRAISE Model\u201d of (self) employment in Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain for 2000 NEETS<\/b>!\u00a0 RAISE<\/b> in Croatia will focus on Lika-Senj County, the county with the highest NEET rate in Croatia!<\/p>\n
During the opening session, Velimir \u017dunac<\/b>, State Secretary at the Croatian Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, Karlo Star\u010devi\u0107<\/b>, Mayor of the City of Gospi\u0107, one of the project partners and Maja Dodi\u0107<\/b>, representative of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb, gave opening remarks. Afterwards Mary Ann Rukavina Cipeti\u0107<\/b>, Project Coordinator (GTF \u2013 Initiative for Sustainable Growth) presented the project, and stated \u201cRural youth NEETS\u2019 rate is above 20% and as high as 35% in our 4 countries making the need for such an intervention long overdue!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
On this occasion H. E. Astrid Versto<\/b>, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to Croatia, stated: \u201cOur Fund for Youth Employment is set up to find and test out new ways to create workplaces for young people in Europe. We have high expectations to the RAISE Youth project both locally here in Croatia and that it can serve as inspiration also in other countries. It is handpicked among 300 project proposals from all over the continent. Out of 27 projects we have selected for funding, seven of them involve Croatian organizations. This is a great success and Croatia should be proud for its applicants!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
To find out more about the project, please contact Mary Ann Rukavina Cipeti\u0107<\/b>, maryann@gtf.hr<\/a>, 091 575 5562 or visit GTF \u2013 ISG<\/a>, and to find out more about the Fund please visit www.eeagrants.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Launch of the \u201cRAISE Youth\u201d project took place today at the Sheraton Hotel in Zagreb, Croatia. Under the full name \u201cRural Action for Innovative and Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Youth\u201d the project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"cmcal_calendar":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"cmcal_calendar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeagrants.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmcal_calendar?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}