The ECO-MOTIVE project was aimed at providing training tools for disadvantaged and unemployed adults to provide sustainable development solutions to entrenched rural poverty. The roots of poverty and social disadvantage are complex, and there is no wholesale solution within the scope of any single project, but we believe that one starting point for building opportunities for disadvantaged, low-skilled rural people is to explore individual human development (both life and employment skills) in connection with agriculture-based training opportunities. The ecological approach offers multiple benefits, including a recognition of the central importance of the social context of agriculture and its resource-efficient nature that complies with the long-term strategic goal of the sustainable natural resource management. A number of local government initiatives have started up over the last few years in Hungary, aimed at developing skills and knowledge appropriate for rural areas in basic agricultural areas. At the same time community employment programmes („Közmunka program”) have begun, in an attempt to address entrenched rural unemployment. Unfortunately there is still a lack of capacity at local government level that justifies the need for employment trainings, reskilling programmes and human development resources on which our project focused.The ECO-Motive project provided the training background, including technical knowledge and skills coupled with knowledge transfer methodology and social sensitization and motivation practices to provide user groups (primarily local authorities, and their programme staff) with course materials and training modules for trainers (practitioners, unemployed adults with an agricultural background, or with working experience in agriculture) by preparing capacity to train trainers of disadvantaged/ unemployed/low skilled adults (end-users) of rural areas in the field of small-scale ecological production. In order to facilitate the training of trainers we prepared the following 5 modules, which constitute together the main intellectual output of our project: social sensitivity skills and motivation, ecological small-scale farming (introduction), ecological small animal husbandry, ecological vegetable production, ecological fruit production. Each module includes applied pedagogical methods and submitted for licensing, forming together the complex training-the-trainers curriculum for ecological small scale production under the title “Competence development training for trainers of disadvantaged target groups by deepening ecological small-scale farming knowledge and developing equal opportunities approach”.The curriculum is accompanied by training-the-trainers teaching materials that facilitate the teaching work of trainers in ecological farming. The 6 distinct sections (corresponding to the curriculum modules and the ‘Collection of games and methodologies for trainers’) of the teaching material provide professional knowledge based on the well-established good practices appropriate for teaching approached in a holistic way.The end-users course material supports the learning of end-users during trainings in ecological small-scale production facilitated by trained trainers. The content of the end-users targeted course materials are closely linked to the accompanying training-the-trainers teaching materials. The end-user course material, which is rich in graphic illustration for the purpose of easy understanding, is produced as self-contained teaching aid, in order to facilitate its use.The well-established good-practices incorporated into the professional context are transferred from partners according to their area of expertise. In the project 7 prominent institutes with different institutional structures participated from 4 European countries (Hungary,Romania,Spain,UK). The common feature of all partner institutions is their focus on rural unemployment and social disadvantage related to agricultural activities. Pilot courses (18 day) organized for future trainers and end-users (6 days) during the project lifetime provided the opportunity to test out the transferred solutions before they are incorporated into the final project outputs. Localization mechanism ensured that all elements of exchanged, transferred and developed best-practises became adoptable under Hungarian conditions.Our goal with the project was to provide tools to local authorities to initiate training in small scale organic farming practices which leads into the creation of, not just utilising the manpower, but providing human development opportunities, which can lead to longer-term solutions. We believe that the project has important impacts at all levels including the social dimension, as the trained trainers influence the thinking of the decision makers in local authorities and by becoming acquainted with the global, holistic approach of organic farming they also influence higher level decision-making.