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energy transition in rural areas
25 Aug 2025

Join the new Community group on energy transition in rural areas: connect and exchange with peers!

The group is now live on the Rural Pact platform, offering a collaborative space for local and regional authorities, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders dedicated to empowering fair and sustainable energy planning in rural Europe.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
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10 Jul 2025

Impacts of rural demographic challenges on environment and generational renewal: new thematic reports

Two recent thematic reports by the Interreg Europe ‘Down to Earth’ project demonstrate how rural areas facing demographic decline can build resilience and foster generational renewal through integrated policies.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Image by Siegfried Poepperl on Canva
12 Jun 2025

Strategies for action on ‘Shrinking Smartly and Sustainably’

Effectively responding to demographic change requires a multi-level governance approach across a wide range of policy areas, while tailoring policies to the needs, challenges and opportunities of each region.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform

Latest publications

Policy Action Lab ‘Enhancing policy coordination for vibrant rural areas’
Event Highlights |

Highlights Report | Policy Action Lab ‘Enhancing policy coordination for vibrant rural areas’

This highlights report outlines the main messages and outputs of the Policy Action Lab of 28 November 2024, hosted by the Rural Pact Support Office.

  • Rural Pact
Policy Action Lab 'Territorial development for the green transition'
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Highlights Report | Policy Action Lab 'Territorial development for the green transition: Harnessing the potential of rural communities'

This highlights report outlines the outputs of the Policy Action Lab of 19 September 2024, hosted by the Rural Pact Support Office.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar: ‘Rural youth participation in policymaking'
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Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar: ‘Rural youth participation in policymaking'

This highlights report summarises the key messages and discussions at the dedicated Good Practice Webinar of 24 April 2024, hosted online by the Rural Pact Support Office.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform

Latest good practice

Rural Growth Agreements support multi-level governance and local innovation in Norway
Austria Slovakia
Photo: Aare Hindremäe
Methodology | 14 Mar 2025

Estonian Rural Parliament: strengthening grassroots democracy and rural development

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform