Roots and Routes – A Journey Between Rural and Urban Life

Content

This playlist empowers you to explore new opportunities, build connections, and actively bridge rural and urban communities for a sustainable future. Through hands-on activities, you’ll gain skills to navigate city life, build supportive networks, expand your career possibilities, celebrate rural heritage, and collaborate on sustainability initiatives. Each activity fosters mutual understanding, environmental responsibility, and inclusivity, ensuring everyone can contribute meaningfully to bridging the rural-urban divide.
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By completing this playlist, you’ll develop valuable adaptability, collaboration, cultural awareness, and environmental stewardship skills. Your efforts will contribute to the European Youth Goal #6: Moving Rural Youth Forward, creating a future where rural and urban youth support and learn from each other.
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Why should you care?Navigate city life confidently: Gain practical skills to thrive in urban environments, feel at home, and stay connected to your roots.
Build a cross-community network: Connect with urban peers and create a community of shared support, knowledge, and friendship.
Open career doors: Explore job, education, and civic opportunities that broaden your horizons and inspire you to bring fresh ideas back to rural areas.
Celebrate rural-urban cultural exchange: Share and preserve the richness of rural heritage, showcasing both traditional and innovative aspects of rural life.
Promote sustainable futures: Collaborate on eco-friendly initiatives that benefit both rural and urban communities, fostering a shared commitment to environmental sustainability.
Earn recognition: Receive badges that showcase your adaptability, collaboration, cultural awareness, and environmental responsibility. This is a tangible way to demonstrate your commitment to connecting rural and urban communities.
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How partners and organisations in Cities of Learning can support you:
Share success stories: Highlight inspiring examples of rural youth who have made meaningful connections in urban settings and shared valuable skills with their communities.
Encourage participation: Use social media and outreach to motivate young people from rural and urban areas to join activities that foster mutual learning and support.
Facilitate connections: Help rural youth connect with local networks, sustainable initiatives, and youth communities in urban areas.
Organise events: Partner with local organisations to host cultural exchanges, sustainability workshops, and networking events that unite rural and urban youth.
Promote ongoing engagement: Use the platform to share the results, inspiring continued efforts to bridge the rural-urban divide and create shared progress.
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This playlist is part of the European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning cooperation partnership implemented by four partner organisations:
System&G, lead partner in Greece
CODEC, Belgium
Badgecraft, Lithuania
System&G, Finland
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The EU Erasmus+ programme co-funded this activity.
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Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Rural Roots, Urban Routes: Navigating New Places

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Rural-Urban Connections, Building Your Networks

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Rural and Urban Careers Exchange

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Cultural Bridges – Celebrating Rural Heritage in Urban Spaces

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Green Ties – Rural-Urban Sustainability

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Activities: 5

Started: 3

Completed playlist: 0

Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

Badgecraft hosts this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@badgecraft.eu.