Helping rural areas to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st century has become an overall EU priority. The Rural Development Policy (2007-2013) focuses on three thematic axes, of which especially the third axis ‘improving quality of life and diversification of the rural economy’ promotes training, information and entrepreneurship for women, young people and older workers (EU Council Decision, 2006).Our project aims at addressing these priorities by mentoring and training young women living in rural areas with e-learning courses and social networking activities focused on fostering entrepreneurship.The objectives of the project were:• To foster the entrepreneurial spirit of young women in rural communities in order to improve their social and professional status and gain equal gender rights;• To involve and stimulate young women who are active in rural communities to become mentors for other young women in each participating country;• To help maintaining the social and economical sustainability of rural areas;• To contrast the emigration flow from rural areas to urban areas.These objectives will be reached by providing to the young women living in the rural areas of the European countries involved in the proposal an e-learning training course and a social network, deriving from the adaptation and transfer of the products of the MW-Sonet TOI project, that will be available on the project webpage.The project was developed in the following phases:Phase 1: Context analysis and researchPhase 2: Adaptation of the training materials/social networkPhase 3: Testing and Evaluation of the training materials/social networkPhase 4: Optimization, validation and transfer of the training materials/social networkThe profiles of the core partners involved in the project are the following:FIDTA: is a Spanish research centre that is mainly devoted to research activities related to the agricultural and agro-industrial sector.GRANAFORMA: is a vocational and continuous training centre that has developed important programmes for farmers. BETI: is a Lithuanian company specialized in ICT enchanced training, distance education methodology, learning technologies, multimedia production and development of web applications. CIA-Toscana: is a professional farmers association . The CIA Toscana represents and protects the farmer’s economic, social and civil interests and the rural community.HUL: is a German independent private consultancy focused on consulting of agricultural family enterprises.AEPMR: is a non-governmental organization based in Braila, Romania. The mission of the organisation is to increase the number of citizens in the rural areas who have access and benefit of lifelong learning opportunities.CEJA: is the European Council of Young Farmers. It is “the voice” of the young European farmers and gives them consultancy, training and orientation. It gathers 28 members associations from 23 European countries.