Roots and Routes – A Journey Between Rural and Urban Life

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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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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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This activity focuses on celebrating and sharing traditional and contemporary aspects of rural culture within your new urban community. By collaborating with urban youth, you’ll explore how rural heritage, skills, and modern innovations can be integrated into city life, fostering mutual respect and understanding. Together, you’ll create opportunities for cultural exchange that highlight the richness of rural life and allow urban communities to experience its unique contributions.
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Completing this activity will give you skills in cultural expression, event organisation, and cross-community collaboration. You will also have the chance to inspire others, promote rural heritage, and foster a deeper appreciation of rural identity within urban spaces.
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First, get inspired!The second Rural Youth Project Ideas Festival was held at Wiston Lodge, Lanarkshire. It gathered 50 young rural people together to share ideas, network, develop new skills, and discuss how to improve life for themselves and their peers.
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The exhibition "Digital Storytelling" presented the results of the "Digital Storytelling" youth exchange project funded by the EU Erasmus +. During the exhibition, participants presented several youth issues (unemployment in particular) through the pictures they had taken during the project. Each participant took his turn to present his pictures, share the story behind them, and share his overall impressions.
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Now, take action:Completing the following activities will create meaningful opportunities for rural-urban cultural exchange. Through collaborative projects and creative showcases, you’ll help urban communities experience and appreciate rural heritage while celebrating the evolving culture of rural youth.
Host a rural heritage showcase: Partner with urban youth to organise a showcase that features traditional rural crafts, music, foods, and storytelling. Include hands-on activities like workshops or tasting sessions, encouraging attendees to interact with rural culture meaningfully.
Rural stories digital project: Work with urban peers to create a digital storytelling project (e.g., blog, video series, or social media campaign) that shares personal stories of rural life and experiences. Focus on individual perspectives, capturing what it means to grow up in a rural area, the challenges and joys, and how these experiences shape your worldview. Share it with an urban audience to foster connection and understanding.
Rural-urban “Innovation Spotlight” event: Work with urban youth to organise an event highlighting rural innovations, such as sustainable farming practices, eco-friendly construction, or community-led tech projects. Invite local experts or entrepreneurs to share insights, inspiring urban audiences with the modern advancements in rural areas and exploring ways to integrate these practices in urban settings.
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Get your badge.Complete some activities from the list above and apply for a badge (=click the “Get this badge” button below) by sharing your reflections, photos, or project summaries highlighting how sharing rural culture has helped bridge understanding and celebrate diversity in urban spaces.
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Who is behind this activity?Cities of Learning Network partners invite you to learn and do something about European Youth Goal #6, Moving Rural Youth Forward. We value your efforts and contributions and want to reward you with badge recognition.
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Contact us for more details about the Erasmus+ co-funded project "European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning."
System&G, Greece - the project lead partner
CODEC, Belgium
Badgecraft, Lithuania
System&G Finland
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Disclaimer: We are grateful for the ideas generated by youth leaders and youth workers during the international study visits. To create this activity, humans collaborated with AI using the Youth Goals Hub GPT custom-built version, informed and inspired by the best youth work practices.
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Rural-Urban Cultural Bridges Obțineți această insignă

This badge is awarded for completing the Cultural Bridges – Celebrating Rural Heritage in Urban Spaces activity. By organising and participating in cultural exchanges showcasing rural life's diversity and innovation, you’ve demonstrated creativity, initiative, and a commitment to cross-community understanding. Your efforts have brought rural heritage to urban spaces, helping foster appreciation and mutual respect between rural and urban communities.
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Skills and competencies gained (aligned with the EntreComp framework):
Cultural awareness and expression (connected to EntreComp 1.4 Valuing ideas competence): You’ve promoted cultural diversity and shared the value of rural heritage with an urban audience.
Creativity (connected to EntreComp 1.2 competence): You used creative approaches to highlight rural culture and engage urban communities through innovative and interactive formats.
Working with others (connected to EntreComp 3.4): Collaborating with urban peers fosters teamwork and mutual learning, building cultural bridges and inspiring new connections.
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Earning this badge demonstrates your role as a Cultural Bridges Builder, committed to celebrating rural heritage and inspiring cross-community understanding. You have shown leadership, creativity, and empathy in promoting inclusivity and respect, contributing to the European Youth Goal #6: Moving Rural Youth Forward. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earner's efforts and contributions and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.

You have to finish 2 tasks to get the badge

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: un organizator al activității

Rural heritage showcases:
Task: Partner with urban youth to organise a cultural event featuring rural crafts, music, storytelling, and food. To engage participants, include interactive elements like workshops, games or tastings.
Evidence: Submit photos or a summary of the event detailing the activities offered, participant feedback, and key cultural exchanges.

Task no.2

Evidence verified by: un organizator al activității

Rural stories digital project:
Task: Create a digital storytelling project that shares personal experiences of rural life in collaboration with urban peers. Use the project to foster understanding and connection with urban audiences.
Evidence: Provide a link to the digital project and reflect on how sharing these stories helped bridge understanding between rural and urban perspectives.

Task no.3

Evidence verified by: un organizator al activității

Rural-urban innovation spotlight event:
Task: Work with urban youth to organise an event that showcases innovative practices from rural communities, such as sustainable farming, eco-friendly construction, or community-led tech solutions. Encourage discussions on how these rural innovations can inspire urban communities.
Evidence: Submit a summary or photos of the event, including insights shared, participant feedback, and ideas discussed for adapting rural innovations to urban settings.

Green Ties – Rural-Urban Sustainability

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Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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