New Good Practices showcase rural youth opportunities, services, entrepreneurship and policy innovation
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
- Stronger Rural Areas
- Connected rural areas
- Resilient rural areas
- Prosperous rural areas
Discover ten new inspiring initiatives, ranging from exchange semesters in Austrian and German rural areas to a regional housing strategy in Spain – all available in the Rural Pact Good Practice database.
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Browse the database to discover projects, tools and methodologies across Europe on a range of topics!
Youth empowerment
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Connecting students to rural municipalities in Germany and Austria through ‘rural semesters’;
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Researching enablers of local access to higher education in the Nordics;
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Transforming schools into digitally connected learning hubs across ten EU Member States.
Rural revitalisation and creative entrepreneurship
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Promoting tourism and local identity through a honey-themed destination in Cyprus;
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Piloting rural social-care models to strengthen services in rural Croatia;
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Supporting rural entrepreneurs in Sweden with accessing innovation expertise and partners;
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Bringing arts and community-led culture to rural areas through the Small Lithuanian Culture Capitals initiative.
Innovative public policy
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Countering demographic change in Castilla y León (Spain) through an integrated regional housing strategy;
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Improving policy coherence through a Vision for more attractive rural areas in Slovakia;
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Delivering practical measures for biodiversity, soil and water management a Flemish (Belgium) climate-adaptation programme.
Explore these and many others in our Good Practice database – browse by country, topic and type of practice.