Our taget groups
Adult education organisations
Adult education organisations will benefit through the possibility to improve their educational offerings to adult learners, by aligning those with the needs of the market and the population and utilising the open-access teaching resources, created within the project’s lifetime.
Rural public authorities
The project will raise the awareness of the local and regional rural authorities on the rural community needs, and relevance of rural-urban collaboration for the development of business activities, and quality social service provisions.
Rural businesses
Rural businesses will see the impact through the increase in their activities, due to expansion of their network with urban counterparts, better visibility, recruitment of high-quality graduates, and the entrepreneurial mindset they developed during the project.
Adult learners & Rural residents
The project will foster the development of an entrepreneurial mindset of the adult learners, while rural residents will grow to be more connected with their local communities, being part of the Rural Councils. The student projects will contribute to the rural citizens’ quality of life through improving educational, health, or recreational services.
HEI lecturers & HEIs
The HEI staff benefit through gaining skills and knowledge on entrepreneurial teaching, business models, and hands-on social and business development projects. The project will add value to the civic engagement role of the HEIs by establishing links to their rural communities and increasing relevance of their educational provision.
Our approach
Community – Based Learning. Through a wide variety of teaching methods following the methodology of CBL the project will aim to foster meaningful community service responding to real-life needs, elevate the importance of glocal citizenship and instil adult learners with civic responsibility.
Science-to-Society Focus. The project brings together HEIs, adult learners, rural businesses communities, public authorities, and citizens around the table to investigate problems, generate solutions, and implement findings together.
Design Thinking. ARDENT takes a human-centred management process basing its methodology on the following design thinking principles: Attention to User Needs (“Urban-Rural Community Building Stage”; Observation (“The Rural Consultation Event”; Visualisation and prototyping (“Rural Entrepreneurship Adult Teaching & Training Programme”); Testing (“Community-based learning projects”)
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