ACTIVATING RURAL YOUTH
Turning rural potential into local action
An international training course for youth workers, educators and community practitioners exploring rural activation, community-led regeneration and practical ways of helping young people stay, return and create opportunities in rural areas.
Activating Rural Youth / La Buona Terra
Project at a glance
2026-1-IT03-KA151-YOU-000398901
KA151-YOU — accredited youth mobility
10–16 September 2026
La Buona Terra, Passignano sul Trasimeno, Umbria, Italy
Associazione Kora
MONOMIT participating organisation
About the project
Activating Rural Youth brought together 24 participants from eight partner organisations for seven days of rural activation, community-led regeneration and peer learning.
The programme was designed for youth workers and practitioners who wanted to better understand how rural spaces can be regenerated from within and how young people can become active contributors to that process.
Rather than approaching rural depopulation only as a policy issue, the training focused on real cases of rural regeneration and on the practical conditions that allow local initiatives to emerge: people, place, community relationships, social innovation, sustainability and viable ways of turning ideas into action.
Learning from real places
The programme was strongly place-based. Participants studied real rural-regeneration cases, learned how to “read” a rural ecosystem, visited local examples and gradually developed their own activation ideas.
The residential training took place at La Buona Terra, a ten-hectare educational farm above Lake Trasimeno that itself functions as a living example of rural activation and sustainable use of local resources.
MONOMIT’s participation
MONOMIT took part as a participating organisation within Associazione Kora’s accredited KA151-YOU mobility.
Dragana Drljačić · Miona Knežević · Aleksandar Drljačić
Their participation became part of MONOMIT’s developing work around rural activation, community-led regeneration and support for young people in rural areas.
From learning to MONOMIT’s rural direction
The experience did not remain an isolated mobility. It became part of MONOMIT’s developing rural direction — connecting experiential learning, local resources, nature, culture and community-based initiatives in western Serbia.
This learning later informed ideas such as the MONOMIT Rural Activation Lab, a model intended to help young people turn mapped local resources and needs into realistic rural initiatives.
Key themes
Recognition
Rural Activator recognition
Competency-based recognition linked to active participation in the programme.
Youthpass
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MONOMIT team
La Buona Terra
Case work / peer learning
Rural activation / field visit
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Rural Activators
Explore the wider Rural Activators methodology, reference cases and peer-learning approach.