1. What is Rural Entrepreneurship (RE)?
Erasmus+ Rural Rules!

2. Content Unemployment: rural vs urban Funding for rural business
Some examples
Task

3. The employment rate between rural and urban areas differ a lot:
Bulgaria (12.8% difference)
Croatia (10.9% difference)
Finland (8.4% difference)
Lithuania (6.6% difference)
Rural areas account only to 15.3% of GDP on average
There is a need to solve that!

4. Another problem:
The proportion of people over 65 years living in rural regions is increasing all the time!

5. Subsidies for Rural Entrepreneurship
- Mostly through EU programmes (e.g. EU Rural development )
- the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) dedicated €100 billion
- There are 118 different rural development programmes (RDP) in the 28 Member States for this period

6. Funding for rural businesses focus on:
- Innovative farming and sustainable forest management; - Shift toward a low-carbon economy - Promoting social inclusion, poverty reduction in rural areas & more..
More info: /index_en.htm (simply Google: “EU help for rural areas”)

7. Funding is usually a perfect kick-off for a rural business
Is it possible for a rural business to be profitable without EU funding?
Funding is usually a perfect kick-off for a rural business

8. Examples of rural businesses

10. Traditional food

11. Producing?
Labour force and land is much cheaper in rural areas

12. Organic farming and food
Hipsters love it. The rich love it. Everyone loves it

13. Rural tourism
And cool events, like the one above

14. What rural business examples do you know?

15. Task for you (25 mins) In groups:
Try to find an innovative entrepreneurial solution to one of the following problems in rural areas:
Youth is massively leaving for urban areas or migrating abroad;
Alcohol consumption is skyrocketing;
There are lots of unused dangerous buildings;
Elderly people are too far from necessary social services;
The local infrastructure is in a terrible condition;
There is a lack of cultural, sport and social activities;
or think of another social problem, that you would like to tackle.
Draw how this rural business would work/eliminate the social problem. Be creative - there are no limits this time!