Mobile application Explore Lika was created as part of the project RAISE Youth - Rural Action for Innovative and Sustainable Enterpreneurship for Youth carried out by GTF-Initiative for Sustainable Growth who is responsible for all content in the application. We thank Lika-Senj County Tourist Board and the City of Gospić for cooperation and permission to use their photographs in the application.

Name: RAISE Youth - Rural Action for Innovative and Sustainable Enterpreneurship for Youth

Fund: The EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment

Duration: 40 months (01.09.2018. - 30.09.2023.)

Project consortium:

• GTF - Initiative for Sustainable Growth (Lead partner, Croatia)
• City of Gospić (Beneficiary partner, Croatia)
• Center for Sustainable Communities Development (Beneficiary partner, Bulgaria)
• Plava tvornica d.o.o. (Beneficiary partner, Croatia)
• Ferma d.o.o. (Beneficiary partner, Croatia)

Objectives:

• to contribute to providing decent and productive work for youth through social innovation in rural areas of 4 EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Spain;
• to pilot and promote an innovative RAISE Model of (self) employment, for youth NEETs based on sustainable agri-business in 4 rural regions of EU with high unemployment rates and depopulation.

The RAISE project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment