News Archives | RAISE Youth

31 Jan Sustainability of the RAISE Youth Project

Posted at 07:56h in News

RAISE Youth project has been implemented in Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain, and Romania, demonstrating a strong commitment to sustainability, youth empowerment, and community development. Through a multifaceted approach encompassing innovative agriculture, modern technology and community engagement, project partners have fostered enduring impacts that extend beyond the...

30 Jan Smart Farm & Permaculture Garden in Croatia

Posted at 08:04h in News

One of the most significant contributions to the sustainability of the RAISE Youth initiative in Croatia is the establishment of the pilot permaculture garden and smart farm in Lika. This initiative has generated substantial interest within the local community, drawing attention from stakeholders and business...

30 Jan Links and exchange within and between countries

Posted at 08:00h in News

A significant component of the RAISE Youth project was value chain creation and fostering both vertical and horizontal stakeholder cooperation. The aim of these activities was to extend the impact of RAISE demo centers beyond individual projects and into broader contexts, establishing interconnected value chains...

16 Jan Transfer of RAISE Model to North Macedonia

Posted at 07:59h in News

From the 10th to the 13th of January, a study visit to the Republic of North Macedonia was organized within the RAISE Youth project. This activity was attended by representatives from the Croatian RAISE Youth team, accompanied by RAISE's external experts and volunteers, totalling seven...

13 Dec We did it! Celebrating Five Successful Years of RAISE Youth

Posted at 09:20h in News

After five years of successful implementation in Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain and Romania, a final conference of the RAISE Youth project took place this December in Croatia. Overall objective of the RAISE Youth was to contribute to providing decent and productive work for youth through social innovation...

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...