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Social Economy Lab - Revitalizing Small Towns and Villages

ILA has realized, applied or designed below projects with the inspiration of SE Lab
experience

Development through Cooperation Project

We discussed roles of public, private and civil society organizations in rural development
during the Development Through Cooperation project which was a 7-days seminar on
14-20 May 2016 for 30 young people and youth workers from 9 different countries, both
from Programme; Denmark, Romania, Italy, Slovakia and Turkey & Neighbourhood
countries; Jordan, Ukraine, Bosnia- Herzegovina and Palestine under Key Action 1 (KA1):
Learning Mobility of Individuals, Mobility of Youth Workers.

Co-operate for Rural Youth (CO.RU)

CO.RU project has applied to Erasmus+ KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the
Exchange of Good Practices in the field of Vocational Training.
CO.RU project offers an ICT based cooperative entrepreneurship training module for rural
youth. The objective of this training module is to promote youth participation to
cooperatives and enable existing and potential young managers of agricultural
cooperatives to identify and address major challenges that are specific to cooperatives in
market oriented agricultural development. More...

It is time for Cooperatives (imdi Kooperatif Zaman - KO-ZA)

KO.ZA project has applied to Ankara Development Agency, Social Responsibility Platform.
KO-ZA project brings women and youngsters who are suffered from terror in Southeast
of Turkey or low-income rural community in Central Anatolia Region. The objective of this
project is to contribute social and economic integration of these two regions with 5-days
cooperative trainings. It is aimed to train 100 participants and set up 5 rural
development cooperatives during the project. More...

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I have much idea but no money - Fikrim ok Param Yok Kooperatifi

Project is applied to TOG Foundation in Turkey.
Project brings 5 universities student clubs to promote cooperative entrepreneurship.
Participants are trained on setting up and manage Youth Cooperatives especially in
economically disadvantaged regions. 25 university students are trained with the project.

Volunteer Initiatives for Sustainable Agriculture (VISA)

Project is written for Erasmus+ KA1 as a Training Course but has not been applied yet.
Project brings 28 youth participants from 7 program countries to exchange ideas and
practices about cross-sectoral cooperation for rural development. Cooperatives are
stressed in the program as a mechanism to foster social and economic inclusion in rural.