Unemployment, especially long – term unemployment, is one of the main reasons for social exclusion. A lot of long – term unemployed people is formed by women without proper education, living in the countryside. We have almost the same problem in Slovenia, Hungary and Italy. Utilization of farming as a tool for work training and social inclusion of disadvantaged people has increased recently in many EU countries. This approach currently appears as alternative to traditional rehabilitation and work training for disadvantaged people. With respect to described rationale our OVERALL OBJECTIVE is: to support women from countryside for acquiring knowledge and competencies needed for their personal development, employability and inclusion to the labour market. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES that will contribute to the achievement of the overall objective are: - To enable women from countryside for smooth transition to work and/or further education with the help of work based learning in the area of horticulture, social services in the countryside and entrepreneurship; - To establish a women self-help group, aimed to collectively overcome barriers at knowledge acquiring, at creating business networks and at mutual motivation; - To foresee steps for or integration of prepared programs and methodology into school system; - To prepare measures for integration of prepared programs for multifunctional farming in actions of local and regional development. In our activities plan we will address the following groups: - women from the countryside (end-users): We will include 36 women in the project - trainers, working in VET institutions: we will include 15 trainers in project activities - Regional stakeholders, which are connected with implementation of different measures / programs for development of social economy - National stakeholders that prepare various statutory provisions and programs for development of social entrepreneurship in participating countries - Institutions dealing with employment and social integration in each participating region Altogether we will include 30 diffrent stakeholders from participating countries. Most important results: 1) Model for establishing woman self-help group in the area of multifunctional farming. 2) Handbook for establishing self-help group and for multifunctional farming. 3) Individual training plans for the woman self–help group in the area of multifunctional farming, using methodology for identification of competences acquired in formal, informal and non-formal education. 4) Evaluation of prepared programs and methodology 5) Programe for integration of prepared programs and methodology into school system, taking into consideration also country differences. 6) Programe for integration of prepared programs for multifunctional social farming in actions of local and regional development. 7) International conference for dissemination of intellectual outputs. 8) Short-term joint staff training events - 5 days joint staff training workshop for trainers. 9) Pilot training of the countryside women (end users) with prepared programs and methodology. To address these results, most important activities will be: preparation of the model and handbook, preparation of individual training plans, training of trainers and countryside women and preparation of programs prepared programs and methodology into school system and actions of local and regional development. Training programs for women from the countryside will be prepared as work - based learning, combined with e-counselling (blended learning). In the project we will implement short training event for trainers and longer training of countryside women to evaluate prepared programs. In short term period countryside women will acquire competencies for team working and competencies in the area of multifunctional farming. This will enable them to establish group multifunctional farm. Better competencies of countryside women will result in long – term period in bigger number of women from the countryside, that will be employed in the area of multifunctional farming. Program for integration of prepared programs for multifunctional social farming in actions of local and regional development will be worked out. We expect that they will be interested to participate in the network in order to combine human and financial resources at helping difficult-to-employ people to get an employment. In long – term, this will result in improvement of conditions for multifunctional farming in participating regions and in bigger number of social farms in participating regions next years. Partnership has professional knowledge connected with introduction of self - help groups, development of group multifunctional farming practises, training, network building and policy preparation. Complementary knowledge exists in the consortium for carrying out project activities and to prepare project outputs and results.