All events

Workshop

Assessing the impact of creative ex-urban communities on non-urban areas

The workshop will bring together practitioners, researchers, policymakers and engaged community actors to explore and contribute to the assessment of the impacts of creative ex-urban communities on non-urban areas.

Workshop

Repopulation Festival 2025

The Repopulation Festival, organised by the Repopulation Foundation, will engage citizens over three days through music, film, and collaborative work to focus on enabling a more viable and flourishing rural way of life.

Rural roots and routes: Navigating complexities of quality of life, immobility, and migration

The event, organised by the Leibnitz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, provides a platform for researchers to exchange novel insights, rigorous research, and practical solutions that address the complex relationships between quality of life, migration, and immobility.

Empowering rural communities. From theory to practice in community development

The immersive summer school provides a rigorous and practice-oriented approach to rural community development. The program is structured around a core methodological framework that equips participants with the theories, methods, and practical tools needed to engage effectively in community-based work

Conference

Homelessness and affordability: Sharing what works, and the 2025 World Habitat Awards ceremony

The conference will bring together people to discuss transformative solutions to end homelessness. The day will conclude with a ceremony to celebrate the 2025 World Habitat Awards winners.

Equitable and sustainable rural development: the role of the clean industrial deal

The event is part of the European Sustainable Energy Week and will bring solutions for sustainable and equitable rural development forward. It will emphasise the importance of integrating social, economic, and environmental considerations and drawing upon the developments of the four initiatives RENOVERTY, RURENER, RURALITIES and JUST PEPP.

Policy Lab

Policy Lab ‘Rural proofing: looking at policies through the rural lens’

This Policy Action Lab, organised by the Rural Pact Support Office, explored measures that can be taken to efficiently implement the rural proofing mechanism at EU, national and regional levels. It enabled peer exchange and reflection as well as developed proposals and recommendations for policymakers.

Affordable and energy-efficient homes for all: breaking barriers to affordable energy retrofits for vulnerable households

The policy session is part of the European Sustainable Energy Week. It will explore critical barriers and actionable solutions to make energy retrofits affordable and accessible for vulnerable households, setting the stage for the operationalisation of new solutions.

Latvian Rural Communities Parliament

The event, organised by the Latvian Rural Forum, will focus on discussions and an exchange of experiences on rural policy implemented in Latvia by rural communities themselves and various practices and initiatives that promote self-determination, sustainability, efficient use of resources and talents.

European Sustainable Energy Week 2025

The European Sustainable Energy Week, organised by the European Commission, will gather leading clean energy community voices along with high-level speakers for three days of exchange, collaboration, and discovery.