ENCOURAGE

Encourage is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation founded in Lille, France. Our mission is to encourage young adults to engage in sustainable, solidarity-based, and cross-cultural entrepreneurship projects in disadvantaged rural and urban areas of the European Union and partner countries, to give them the opportunity to support the development of initiatives undertaken in these places and empower them to act, to discover innovative organizational models, to strengthen their performance, their personal quality of life and their skills. Concretely, the activity of the association is structured around two axes: Organizing mainly short-term volunteering team projects to support populations in disadvantaged rural and urban areas; Training participants in international mobility projects before departure: cultural adaptation, project management, and cross-cultural team management In collaboration with the host organisations, we focus on meaningful projects that will incorporate the following fields of activity: solidarity, environmental impact, digital technology, and sustainable entrepreneurship.