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Integrated development strategies in non-urban areas: call for peer reviewers, apply by 25 June
Are you involved in the design and implementation of an integrated territorial development strategy in a non-urban area? Apply to become a peer reviewer and share your insights and advice for improving the three local strategies selected for the 2024 review – deadline to apply, 25 June 2024.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New guidance on sustainable rural mobility
The EU-funded SMARTA-NET project has produced two guidance documents on enhanced rural mobility solutions, based on existing knowledge and practical experiences.
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New paper assesses conditions for social innovation in rural areas
A new OECD paper identifies factors that can support social innovation in rural areas, provides guidance for policymakers, and proposes an approach to measure readiness and capacity to embark on rural social innovation.
- Rural Pact
Rural energy poverty and energy efficiency across the EU – report and factsheets
A new report by the LIFE-funded RENOVERTY project overviews the specific characteristics of EU rural areas regarding energy efficiency and energy poverty.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Enhancing resilience, social inclusion, and well-being in rural areas through social innovation
The new, EU-funded SERIGO project will work between 2024 and 2027 to enhance the resilience, social inclusion, and well-being of vulnerable groups in European rural areas through socially innovative solutions involving social economy actors.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Good Practice Webinar on Youth – highlights report now available
The highlights report of the Good Practice Webinar ‘Rural youth participation in policymaking' is now available online. It features a range of successful methods for youth engagement, based on various experiences of rural young people.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Rural parliaments: key for the rural vision and Pact, Swedish Rural Parliament highlights
Rural parliaments are key platforms to encourage the implementation of the EU’s rural vision and Pact, Pascale Van Doren, team leader of the Rural Pact Support Office, emphasised at the biennial gathering of the Swedish Rural Parliament of 24-26 May 2024 in Nyköping. Important gatherings of local and national-level decision-makers, rural residents, NGOs, scientists, and businesses, rural parliaments are well-placed to discuss and address current and future challenges in rural areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Collection of innovative, EU-funded research results on cultural tourism
Discover a new set of resources on eight Horizon 2020 research projects that demonstrate the EU’s commitment to conserving Europe’s cultural heritage and transitioning to sustainable cultural tourism. The projects results include analysis and tools of particular relevance for rural, remote and peripheral areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New analysis of crowdfunding benefits for rural development in Spain
A new report by EUROCROWD highlights the potential of crowdfunding to transform Spanish rural areas by fostering innovation and community engagement. It further stresses the importance of supportive policies and infrastructure to sustain the benefits of these actions.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Good Practice Webinar on Climate – highlights report now available
The highlights report of the Good Practice Webinar 'Rural communities tackling climate change' is now available online. It features a range of local practices across European rural areas, which successfully address climate issues.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
