Social entrepreneurship for women in rural areas (Q4299206)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Social entrepreneurship for women in rural areas |
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176,064.24 Euro
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207,134.4 Euro
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85.0 percent
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15 March 2018
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14 March 2020
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City of Sombor
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45°46'10.49"N, 19°7'5.92"E
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The goal of this project is the social and economic empowerment of women from rural areas turns them into a great force for change in their community. This project will establish new opportunities and increase the capacity for the development of social entrepreneurship through new innovative models for the transfer of knowledge and skills for women in rural area in the Hungary-Serbia border region thus enhancing the social and business opportunities for unemployed women from those areas. According to the data of Agriculture Expert Service Sombor (AESS) 96% of West Bačka territory is suitable for lavender growing. The project will establish a social enterprise for growing and producing lavender – the Serbian Lavender growing cluster (SLGC). Lavender is a long-lasting herb with a life span of 12-15 years. Farming lavender can be done even in a small backyard patch, requiring no investments in big plantations. The women in the rural areas may join the cluster and could work more productively since they can join efforts for promoting new products on the standard and on-line market. The project aims to bring harmonized development of the whole region, which would intensify economic cooperation and knowledge transfer, through sustainable use of existing natural resources, such as fertile land and favourable climate conditions. Implementation of project activities will enforce the growth of social capabilities of rural women, and special efforts will be made to include into the project the women who use social services. Lavender growing will present whole new line of products and services for this region and it will enforce implementation of new, eco-friendly technologies for lavender processing. This will improve the social position of rural women, since the social empowerment will reduce stereotyping and discrimination, and at the same time improve their economic position as it will reduce unemployment rate. All these activities will lead to a harmonized social and economic development of the region, and they will promote the cross-border cooperation among women living on both sides of the border. (English)
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