Upcoming Events

European Rally 2025: Planting ideas, cultivating the future

The European Rally will focus on empowering young people for active participation and involvement in policy-making in rural areas. The skills and new knowledge will help them express their opinions and affect change in their local communities to create a better environment for everyone.

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International seminar for leaders of rural youth work

The seminar will adopt a new perspective on rural youth work. It will reflect on global issues, such as empowering women and young people in rural areas, the transformation to sustainable food systems, combating hunger and poverty, or climate protection.

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Nordic Meeting on Agricultural Occupational Health 2025

The event, themed ‘Joint Actions for Farmer Health and Mental Wellbeing’, will highlight the importance of working together to improve and support farmer health and wellbeing. It is also the focus of a new national program in Sweden 2024 – 2028.

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Taking stock and building partnership for sustainable development of mountain and rural areas

The Conference, organised by the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, will focus on the inclusion of vulnerable groups in rural and mountain regions and the integration of natural and social sciences to promote sustainable development and impact-driven research.

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Seventh biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation

The 7th biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) will bring together researchers and students from all over the world to promote projects and publications on the rural and agricultural past.

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Unleashing the potential of small places – barriers and opportunities

The event, organised by the ESPON Programme, will explore the success of certain small places in Europe. The seminar will identify and discuss positive examples and the mechanisms that lie behind them.

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Rural Pact Conference: 'From vision to action: Empowering rural areas for the future'

The Rural Pact Conference, organised by the Rural Pact Support Office, will gather 250 participants from across Europe. The event will offer two days of networking and facilitate exchanges to advance the rural vision 2040, update the Rural Action Plan and guide Rural Pact actions and future policies.

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1st International Congress on Depopulation 2025

The International Congress on Depopulation 2025, organised by Gobierno de Aragon, will provide a space for academic, European, and social dialogue that will allow for the exchange of scientific, technical, and regional information on the phenomenon of depopulation.

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Food systems transition for sustainable rural development

The conference aims to present current research and to discuss the future development of rural areas in Europe in the context of food systems’ transition, modern rural communities and endogenous rural resources. The event will seek recommendations for the creation of effective policies for stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 June.

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Inclusionary approaches to involving cultural actors in place-based tourism

The session will focus on the roles of cultural agents/actors in tourism and will explore the intricacies of how tourism, cultural/creative development strategies and joint actions can contribute to sustainability goals, local regenerative dynamics, and community resilience.