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Rural housing webinar: presentations and videos available
Couldn’t join our Good Practice Webinar on 20 February? Browse through the presentations and videos for inspiring examples of improving rural housing affordability and availability, attracting new residents, and promoting renovation efforts.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
European Commission launches new Vision for Agriculture and Food
The new roadmap on the future of farming and food in the European Union outlines a vision for an attractive, competitive, resilient, future-oriented and fair agri-food system. Living and working conditions in rural areas are among the Vision’s four priority areas.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New paper provides a demographic outlook for EU’s rural regions
A new Joint Research Centre paper reveals that intermediate and rural regions are projected to experience population decline, with remote rural regions being the most affected.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
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Help shape the next EU long-term budget – have your say by 6 May
A new European Commission Communication sets out the key policy and budgetary challenges that will shape the next EU long-term budget, post 2027. In parallel, the Commission is inviting all Europeans to have their say on the next budget and the policies it should support through a series of public consultations open until 6 May 2025.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New project sets the stage for an advanced soil monitoring system
The EU-funded WHEATWATCHER project works between 2024 and 2028 to create and operate a comprehensive, digital soil monitoring system to evaluate the nutritional state of soil, and the chemical and biological factors that impact wheat grains.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Submit your housing project to the World Habitat Award by 3 March!
The competition is open to projects and initiatives from around the world, which focus on affordable and adequate housing – apply by 3 March 2025.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
New highlights report on ‘Enhancing policy coordination for vibrant rural areas’
The EU rural vision should be translated into a long-term strategy at EU, national and regional levels, with a dedicated budget and action plan, a headline message from a recent Rural Pact Policy Lab. The highlights report is now available.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
Projects on Smart Villages and communities in rural Estonia
A new publication showcases 31 inspiring initiatives and projects funded through LEADER in the 2014-2020 period, implementing the Smart Village concept across rural Estonia.
- Rural Pact
- Rural Revitalisation Platform
