“The aim of SEEDS is to increase and enhance capacities for entities located in MENA countries for vocational education and training, to increase working and work quality with Youth in a Green agriculture, following the principles of regenerative agriculture and to increase mobility for Youth workers into the Project partner countries. This leads by improvement of Youth work to increase their access to the labour market and their better self-identification in the society. Gender equality in economic activity can generate substantial macroeconomic gains. Yet, for the majority of women in MENA, significant improvement in education is not translating into more economic empowerment. The status of female labour force participation in MENA, including aspects reflecting women’s economic activity such as unemployment, occupational segregation, earnings, working condition, and entrepreneurship, including critical enabling factors such as access to assets and finance are a big problem which can be outdated by increasing knowledge, building skills and showing examples. SEEDS believe that girls, young females and finally women at home and in society should benefit of their agency and freedom of choice. Partners were selected to have coverage for all Southern Mediterranean area: Egypt, Tunis, Morocco. To support activities in MENA countries, much respected European entities, public and private, will act from Romania, Spain, Austria and Hungary, to be sure of a successful implementation of proposed actions and continuity. As primary objective, SEEDS will form young people, targeting mostly on female youth with fewer opportunities as to increase their level of competencies and foster their active participation in the society. The impact will be multiplied; trained youth in turn, will teach other young people from their communities to prepare and to start GREEN small businesses and REGENERATING farms to boost their already existing ones.

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Objectives of the Project

As primary objective, SEEDS will form young people, targeting mostly on female youth with fewer opportunities as to increase their level of competencies and foster their active participation in the society.

• The secondary objective of SEEDS is to create and develop a 1st phase of an Open Educational Platform with interactive multilingual training modules and professionalized organic agriculture methods. We will introduce Organic Farming, Fair Trade principles, Innovations in Healthy Food and Food Production, Healthy Farming and Agriculture Renewable Energy Sources Solutions to Youth and organizations working with Youth.

Learning supplemented by an experimental approach (Entrepreneurship and Business Plan education) and development of technical skills for innovative healthy farming solutions inside Regenerative Agriculture Entrepreneurs Incubators will entitle YOUTH for YOUTH PASS.

SEEDS – outcome

As a summarized outcome of SEEDS, will be build the Experimental RE-GEN Entrepreneurs Incubator

• A pilot initiative able to put in practice the acquired skills during the training and to supply Healthy Food to poor communities with limited possibilities. RE-GEN will give the opportunity to share agro-food knowledge and to promote free exchange of information, in benefit of increasing the equity of labor and decreasing the gender inequalities in MENA. SEEDS will bring in Europe the knowledge of close to desert agriculture.

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List of participating organisations

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1. 1 INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU BIORESURSE

2. ALIMENTARE RO

3. 2 ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO

4. NACIONAL DE LA CONSERVA ES

5. 3 PAMEA - Project Advisory and Management Experts Association AT

6. 4 Selfhood instructor and provider Bt. HU

7. 5 L ASSOCIATION EURO-MEDITERRANEENNE DES ECHANGES, VOLONTARIATS, EVENEMENTS TN

8. 6 EUROMEDITERRANEAN EXCHANGE, VOLUNTEERING, EVENTS Morocco

9. 7 AL-EMAD ALKABEER FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT CO. Jordan

10. 8 TRAINING WITHOUT BORDERS Egypt

 

Duration: 01-02-2022 – 31-01-2025

Project website: https://seeds-project.eu/