Escape depopulation and foster cultural heritage through active tourism

The main idea of the project is to create escape rooms to promote cultural heritage, impulse active tourism and local economy to avoid depopulation, by empowering young people to take initiative and to promote their community and its history and local culture. The project aims to create a set of adaptable escape rooms (1st project result) to be implemented in the villages of the partners (inside a historical monument – e.g.: The Castle of Medina del Campo), with scenarios based on the local history, fostering the cultural heritage with the purpose to increase the youth initiative and their employability opportunities, by developing their skills and competences and in the same time fostering youth active tourism, as a new sector of escape rooms is raising in the top preferences of leisure activities of young people, but also as group and family activity.

Partners:
- Youth on Board, North Macedonia
- Deses3, Spain
- Scout Society – Romania

Results:
-Set of escape rooms to foster cultural heritage - "Escape inside your village";
-Set of 3 escape rooms, customised for each partner's village/town, which will be pilot tested in a representative site, considered of cultural heritage;
-Methodological and structural GUIDE of cultural escape rooms contain the explained methodology of how to design an escape room to foster the cultural heritage and youth initiative and sense of entrepreneurship, the structured guideline of the escape room and a specific training plan for youth workers to get the knowledge and the know-how of implementing an escape room in their community.

Objectives:
-To create escape rooms as instruments to develop active tourism and to promote local history;
-To empower youth to express their ideas, develop actions and create added value in their city/town/village in such a way as to promote tourism and enhance the cultural heritage;
-To develop youth entrepreneurial skills & competencies to increase their employability opportunities;

-To provide skills & competencies to youth workers such as critical thinking, problem thinking, and time
management to increase their employability opportunities etc;