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ongoing Interreg Danube Region 2025–2028

Career support for young people, so they can stay at home.

PATHS – Personalized Approach to Territorial Life and Career Support. Personal life and career support for young people in rural areas.

PATHS – Interreg development project · video
€2,516,726€2,013,381 Interreg
Language of instructionStudies are delivered in Slovenian (B1 required; free Slovenian course for enrolled students).Lectures, exercises, examinations and the diploma thesis are in Slovenian; none of the modules is taught in English. If your Slovenian is below B1, you join the compulsory free Slovenian language course for foreign students alongside the first year.
How the language requirement works
Key facts

The project in brief.

ProgrammeInterreg Danube Region
Duration2025–202836 months · opening 9/2025
Budget€2,516,726€2,013,381 Interreg
Academia's rolepartner
Lead / partnersUniversity of Pécs (HU)13 partners · 9 countries
Project no.—ni objavljena
About the project

Why PATHS.

Young people from rural parts of the Danube Region often have no access to high-quality career guidance and therefore leave for cities or abroad. In 9 countries PATHS is setting up local LPSS centres (Life Path Support Services), where young people receive personal support for life and career decisions.

The partners train mentors, organise youth camps "I own my path!" and pilot a joint transnational model that other regions will be able to adopt after the project ends.

5 goals and results

Goals and results

  • local LPSS centres – personal support for life and career
  • youth camps "I own my path!"
  • mentor training
  • piloting the transnational LPSS model
  • less emigration of young people from rural areas
Video

V svojih besedah

Študenti leta, diplomanti in predavatelji o študiju na Academii – kratki posnetki brez scenarija. Več zgodb in videov na strani zgodb.

PATHSdevelopment project
PATHSdevelopment project (2)
Videi študentov leta in diplomantov Academie.
Partners

13 partners from 9 countries.

PartnerThe stateRole
University of PécsHungarylead partner
CDDA TolnaHungarypartner
ADELSlovakiapartner
University of Economics in Bratislava (EUBA)Slovakiapartner
HCC HarghitaRomaniapartner
IPC ViennaAustriapartner
Academia Institute of TechnologySloveniapartner
Novo mesto Development CentreSloveniapartner
BATTI VarnaBulgariapartner
CCITRBosnia and Herzegovinapartner
DEX IC LiberecCzechiapartner
CpKP ŠumperkCzechiapartner
IRTR ZagrebCroatiapartner

Project website: interreg-danube.eu/projects/paths

Academia's role

Partner.

With the Novo mesto Development Centre Academia leads the Slovenian pilot: it hosted 28 international participants in Maribor (2 December 2025), takes part in mentor training and prepares career workshops for young people.

Projekt PATHSPATHS
News and events

Articles about the project.

9/2025

Academia at the opening conference of the PATHS project in Pécs

Start of the 36-month project with 13 partners from 9 countries.

12/2025

International PATHS project participants visit Maribor

28 participants from partner countries at workshops at Academia.

3/2026

Study visit to Vienna: learning, exchange and inspiration

A look at good practice in career guidance at IPC Vienna.

Contact · project office

Questions about the PATHS project? Write to us.

Academia's project office replies within one working day. We also invite schools, companies and municipalities to join new applications – Erasmus+, Interreg, Creative Europe, Horizon Europe, EIT.

Natalija Žunkoproject office · Academia, Glavni trg 17b, Maribornatalija.zunko@academia.si · 02 228 35 38
Co-funded by the European Union. The PATHS project is co-funded by the Interreg Danube Region Programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the programme bodies; neither can be held responsible for them.
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