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Regenerative rural futures through culture and creativity: insights from Creative Skills Week
This year’s edition of Creative Skills Week, held in Brussels, gathered stakeholders from Europe’s cultural and creative sectors, policymakers, educators and industry leaders to explore how creative skills can help address complex societal challenges, including in rural areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Investing in rural youth and local communities: reflections from the EURYO Conference 2026
What does it take to make rural areas places where young people genuinely choose to stay? This question was at the heart of the EURYO Conference 2026, held on 11 September in Angra do Heroísmo, in the Azores, Portugal.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Anchoring rural areas in the NRPPs: Policy Lab highlights report available
The highlights report from the Rural Pact Policy Action Lab ‘Anchoring rural areas in the National and Regional Partnership Plans’ is now available. It captures key messages on integrated rural support, monitoring, and stakeholder engagement in the future Plans.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
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Public funding for performing arts in rural areas: new study from EU-funded project
The Creative Europe project SPARSE Plus has commissioned a study on the territorial distribution of public cultural funding for professional performing arts across Europe. It highlights persistent disparities between rural and urban areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New ECO workstream aims to improve access to cancer care for rural communities
The European Cancer Organisation (ECO) has established a workstream bringing together stakeholders from across the European cancer community and beyond to advance action on rural cancer inequalities. Connect with the workstream and find out more.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Explore an EU-funded project’s climate adaptation solutions for mountain areas
Discover the MountResilience project’s collection of climate change adaptation solutions for improving resilience in mountain areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Decentralised rural proofing as a complementary governance approach: RUSTIK project policy brief
A policy brief from the Horizon Europe project RUSTIK introduces the concept of decentralised rural proofing (DRP) and highlights its role as a complementary, place-based approach to governance.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New Good Practice Brochure spotlights inspiring examples of territorial development
A new edition of our Good Practice Brochure highlights six diverse initiatives that show how territorial development instruments and approaches can help improve quality of life in rural areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
