All events

Webinar

Good Practice Webinar on rural innovation

This Good Practice Webinar, organised by the Rural Pact Support Office, showcased national, regional and local experiences and initiatives that promote innovation in rural areas. It built participants’ capacity to develop and implement innovative actions that respond to the emerging opportunities and challenges in rural areas, with a particular focus on technological, ecological and social innovation.

Webinar

Smarter, stronger and more competitive rural areas: The way forward for EU policies

The webinar will showcase and discuss the initial policy outputs of the FUTURAL project. It will present recommendations for improving existing policies to strengthen rural innovation.

Conference

Horizon Europe info days, Cluster 6: food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment

The info days will overview the topics of Horizon Europe’s forthcoming Work Programme 2025. The publication of the calls is expected by mid-April 2025 and the opening for submission – from 5 May 2025 onwards.

Webinar

Vibrant rural areas: tools and policies for resilient and competitive economies

The webinar will focus on rural resilience, with an emphasis on experimental and crowd-sourced data to measure economic diversity.

Other

Practical tools for energy-efficient renovations for vulnerable households

The EPAH Lunch Talk will explore practical tools to support energy-efficient home renovations for vulnerable households. The session will focus on how municipalities and EU projects are tackling energy poverty through strategic planning, innovative funding mechanisms, and practical renovation support.

EU Rural Innovation Forum

The first EU-wide Rural Innovation Forum (EU-RIF), organised by FUTURAL, is a two-day networking event bringing together stakeholders from the rural ecosystem, aiming to set the groundwork for capacity building and expertise sharing on smart community-led innovation in rural areas.

Webinar

Farmers priority needs: Education and training for farm safety

The event will explore the importance of proper education and training to mitigate the occupational safety risks faced by everyone working on European farms.

Conference

TSI Annual Conference 'Supporting reforms – Shaping the future together'

The Conference will showcase how EU support helps Member States deliver on their reform agendas and align national reforms with EU priorities. It will bring together high-level speakers and panelists from the EU Member States and the EU institutions to exchange on impactful reforms, their challenges and lessons learnt.

Conference

Future rural creative hubs community: first Creative Habitat gathering

The event, organised by Treballu Rural Community Hub, will bring together initiatives, creative spaces, hubs, and professionals dedicated to fostering creativity in rural areas across Europe.

Conference

Healthcare in rural Ireland - finding innovative solutions

The conference will focus on the state of Healthcare in Rural Ireland and discuss finding innovative solutions to the current crisis, with a view to informing future rural healthcare policy.