News Archives | RAISE Youth

23 Nov Connecting business and youth: promoting new digital skills in the No-Code Challenge

Posted at 08:08h in News

Following the efforts done to promote youth entrepreneurship and foster youth insertion in the labour market, on 8th of November 2023 the team of FUNDECYT-PCTEX together with Cocobrand, the youth-led company responsible for the creation of the RAISE Youth Digital Toolbox, organized a hackathon with...

11 Oct If I were a Politician…

Posted at 11:19h in News

There are only 2 weeks left until the upcoming local government elections in Bulgaria and only a few months until the end of the RAISE Youth project. In the context of these two significant events for the Pernik region, we asked the young people of...

02 Oct FUNDECYT’s new online course on agroecology and agroecological farming

Posted at 11:22h in News

As part of the efforts done by FUNDECYT-PCTEX working in the RAISE Youth project to provide free, good-quality and impactful training to people in Extremadura, the team of the RAISE Youth project has launched a new training in agroecology and agroecological farming. This new MOOC...

21 Aug Alex Milchov – from the entrepreneurship course to the creation of GraoSoft and the first independent projects

Posted at 07:14h in News, RAISE Stories

Alex happily remembers how a year ago he appeared on the doorstep of the RAISE Regional Youth Center. “The courses provided valuable knowledge and tools that helped me understand the fundamental aspects of entrepreneurship.” The process of building a business plan and the idea of developing...

21 Aug Developing Skills of Rural Youth in Lika

Posted at 07:08h in News

The idea behind the RAISE Youth project is to pilot and promote an innovative RAISE Model of (self) employment for NEETs based on sustainable agri-business in 4 rural regions of EU with high unemployment rates and depopulation. The focus of the project in Croatia is...

21 Aug Reinvigorating rural youth through social innovation: “Creative ruralities” with Lafábrika detodalavida

Posted at 06:15h in News

Summer is one of the parts of the year that rural areas receive a great amount of young people coming back from the urban areas due to the start of the summer holidays and the end of the school year. For the month of July,...

30 Jul The persistent and stubborn young people of Pernik region can develop tourism TOGETHER

Posted at 07:11h in News

Stanimira Hadjimitova, director of the Center for Sustainable Communities Development - the organization implementing the RAISE Youth project in Bulgaria - is categorical. At a round table on July 6, she presented the results of the project so far, including the creation of a Regional RAISE...

25 Jul RAISE Youth Regional Center had its 3rd birthday in the end of July

Posted at 07:18h in News

The holiday was celebrated with numerous workshops and meetings with young people on July 22. The host of the event was Emanuela Kostadinova - a participant in the "RAISE graovo" embroidery workshop. Her colleagues from the workshop also got involved, along with the "Dream Trap" workshop...

10 Jul CREA RAISE Youth programme: conclusions and outcomes

Posted at 10:09h in News

The second edition of the CREA RAISE Youth programme has been one of the main activities of the RAISE Youth project in Extremadura for the year of 2023. This activity, that started on January 2023 and was officially launched to the public on March 2023...

19 Jun Bringing social innovation and agroecology together: RAISE Youth AGRO in Extremadura

Posted at 08:35h in News

During the last couple of months, the team of FUNDECYT-PCTEX has been working together with specialized trainers to design and implement a new training programme for young people related to the field of agroecology and agribusiness in Extremadura. This new training combined: 1) in-situ visits...