Trainings for target groups
We will organize trainings for target groups in all project countries. The trainings will be held by partners in-situ in the pre-identified rural areas for 40-50 participants per event, but they will also be live-streamed to widen our reach, ensure inclusion, and provide an opportunity to learn for anyone unable to attend personally. The main goal of the training is to educate participants about relevant national and EU policies (e.g. Rural action plan, European Green Deal), key facts about the climate crisis, impact on rural areas, ongoing adaptation and mitigating measures, individual and community climate actions, how policymaking is affecting their lives, and basic participatory and active citizenship methods and tools that can help them influence the policymaking process on national and EU levels (including ECI, consultations, complaints, recommendations). The reason we’re starting the series of engagement events with such an activity is that informing citizens of their rights, responsibilities, and options, and disseminating knowledge is the critical first step to legitimate participation – without knowledge and information, citizens are much less able to step into the policymaking process to meaningfully influence it.