The project seeks to build on the previous Observatory research aiming to:

• Improve and expand the documentation of e-learning supply and demand in rural areas, as valid tool for informing policy and demonstrating best practice.
• Expand the networking of key stakeholders (training providers, policy makers, social partners) involving them in a constructive dialogue.
• Launch a campaign of awareness raising in the participating countries and the EU more generally, emphasising the benefits of e-learning for rural development and suggesting alternative options for addressing the constraints operating in rural areas.
• Introduce new methods of guidance addressing the learner to help practitioners reach out to rural inhabitants more successfully.
• Transfer experience and best practice among the participating countries and the EU more generally regarding innovative e-learning pedagogies for adults.
  
  The concrete objectives include:
• conduct of surveys to “map” the e-learning market in rural areas of 11 countries and in the EU more generally, with emphasis on the promotion of innovation and creativity,
• documentation of best practice and transferability in other national contexts,
• inventorying innovative provision of e-learning,
• conduct a study of alternative media and alternative e-learning delivery models, suitable for the target groups of the project,
• develop a guidance tool using Games Based Learning (GBL) to help prospective learners define their needs and become familiar with the e-learning market,
• building networks of key stakeholders at national level by involving them in e-ruralnet,
• disseminating widely the activities and objectives of e-ruralnet through a web presence, publications, national workshops and an international conference.