Model of distribution of sustainable agricultural goods of the Slovenian countryside for greater prosperity of the local community #AGROVEL

Title of the project: Model of distribution of sustainable agricultural goods of the Slovenian countryside for greater prosperity of the local community #AGROVEL

Tender: Development Pillar of Financing 2021-2024 (RSF 2.0), Student Challenges of the University of Maribor 2023

Pedagogical mentor of the project: doc. ddr. Lazar Pavić

Project duration: 1. 3. 2023 – 30. 6. 2023

Brief description of content:

The purpose of the project task entitled “A model of the distribution of sustainable agritourism goods of the Slovenian countryside for greater individual well-being: local is close to me”, whose applicant is the Faculty of Logistics of the University of Maribor in cooperation with the Association of Tourist Farms of Slovenia, is to thoroughly study and define the concept of agritourism goods of the Slovenian countryside and ways of easier distribution of the same to two selected target groups: the local population and local tourists. By realizing the project task, we are getting closer to the third goal of Sustainable Development until 2030 (Health and well-being), while at the same time we are trying to increase the awareness of the local population and domestic tourists that in the local rural environment we can find priceless goodies with which we can ensure the preservation of our health and well-being feelings. In an interdisciplinary team of students from different majors, two pedagogical mentors and a work mentor from the local environment, we want to prepare a proposal for a distribution model that, in the first phase, will increase the awareness of individuals about what all the goods from the countryside are, which can have a positive impact on our health and well-being well-being, in the second phase, by including the opinion of the local population and tourists, thoroughly study the disturbances and obstacles in the distribution of the mentioned values. At the same time, with the project results, we want to make the general public aware of the fact that we do not need goods from distant parts of the world to satisfy our tourist, recreational and other needs, but can very often simply find them in our immediate surroundings. With the project, we are therefore trying to directly influence the changing of the way of thinking of individuals, which should be more inclined to sustainability, on the other hand, we can indirectly influence the possible improvement of the economic situation of people from rural areas as one of the disadvantaged groups in terms of personal circumstances.