<< Objectives >>To develop training capacity in Natural Building to drive sustainable rural development, empowering marginalised groups via a transferrable blended-learning ToT program in Serbia & Greece. To increase employability, provide NB inhabitants with the skills to repair and improve their homes. To begin an initiative to improve NB housing quality and development prospects in the Pčinja region of Serbia via targeted capacity building, that is extendable throughout the Balkans, Europe and beyond.<< Implementation >>Create a ToT to transfer NB training capacity including two intensive practical training implementations for i) unemployed residents of rural Greece providing skills and experience in high-demand NB techniques to increase their employability ii) occupants of problematic earthen dwellings in Pčinja, Serbia to gain skills and knowledge to effectively repair and improve their homes, and motivation to participate in local development actions. Free-access NB training resources and information.<< Results >>BLAT, COB and MAICh all increase specific training capacity. Important training resources developed. 30 rural Greek and Serbian unemployed develop key NB skills. An expanding NB stakeholder network amplifies project results, helps plan future targeted trainings, with NBCaRD results forming the basis for new actions and funding applications addressing wider-ranging initiatives to use NB and NB skills as drivers of sustainable rural and touristic development in Serbia, Greece and throughout Europe