CORE - Citizens Occupy Rural Europe Project aims to make citizens feel closer and as if they belong to Europe by giving them tools and promoting active participation. By creating an empowerment opportunity for youngsters and decreasing their isolation, youth from rural areas feel involved in a community where they can participate, be active, and have a role in the empowerment of other peers. Through the project activities, IEC Austria motivated young citizens to be actively involved in society, improves their opportunities, and develops the appointment of young Europeans.

Citizens Occupy Rural Europe (CORE) was an Europe for Citizens project involving 5 different countries: Portugal, Malta, Italy, Slovakia and Austria. CORE had impact directly european citizens and had the aims to empower the citizens, with a bigger focus on the ones in rural areas, tackling the importance of the European Union, their own culture and to promote their active participation as European citizens. CORE had also spoken to the citizens about the European values that we all share, hence giving the opportunity for these citizens to get to know their common history and values. Our aim is for the citizens to feel closer and as if they belonged to Europe gave them tools and promote active participation where they debated, shared and build their own perspectives and give continuity to this thinking for a less eurosceptic and better future for Europe.