Project RETHINK was approved within the framework of Lifelong Learning Programme Leonardo da Vinci – Innovation transfer.

Lead partner is Development Agency of Varaždin County AZRA d.o.o.

Project partners are: Bluewaters Environmental Consultants (Austria), Scientific Research Centre Bistra from Ptuj (Slovenia), Kujavsko – Pomorskie Voivodeship (Poland), Agentúra na podporu regionálneho rozvoja Košice (Slovakia) and regional development agencies of Krapina Zagorje County, Međimurje County, Zagreb County and Koprivnica Križevci County: ZARA, REDEA, ZACORDA and PORA.

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the exploitation of existing innovations in education and training in the field of sustainable regional development in order to make education and training more open and relevant for the demands of the labor market and society in general.

The main purpose of the project will be to educate trainers who will gain key competences and pedagogical skills which will enable them to improve regional development stakeholders capacities for management and implementation of regional development activities by transfer and testing of vocational programmes and trainings in the field of regional development which are being successfully implemented in other countries of the European Union.

The project will last for 24 months: from the 1st of November 2013 to the 31st of October 2015.

Total value of the project is 278.870,64 EUR

Level of EU co-funding: 74,86%