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Some rural areas have considerable problems due to declining agriculture.
These disadvantaged areas suffer from isolation, depopulation and unemployment. In an attempt to reverse this trend, some alternative pilot projects have been launched in these areas to encourage an approach based on integrated local development. Efforts are made to promote new economic activity by, for example, exploiting local resources and developing the region's cultural, environmental and historical heritage. As part of this strategy, efforts are made to open up these rural areas and to develop a more balanced and harmonious relationship with the nearest urban areas, all in a spirit of social cohesion. The aim of the project was to establish connections among schools in deprived rural areas and to link these with urban schools.