Valnalon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valnalon in La Felguera, Asturias in northern Spain is the site of a project supported by the EU's EQUAL Community Initiative which has developed a chain of educational activities to stimulate entrepreneurship, especially among women and young people. The Technological City of Valnalon sprang from the ashes of one of the most severe processes of industrial restructuring in Europe. Over the last 25 years, Valnalon has developed a complete "chain" of educational and training activities to forge a culture of entrepreneurship in an area that had grown used to dependence on never-ending mineral resources, big companies and help from "father" state. Through its participation in three EQUAL projects, Valnalon has managed to move a series of excluded groups, like women and rural youth, closer to the "fast track" of business creation.