Youth

24 Oct 2025

New European Commission strategy outlines measures to support generational renewal in agriculture

The new strategy – launched by the European Commission on 21 October – sets out a roadmap to revitalise farming, strengthen rural areas and ensure a new generation of farmers can thrive. It acknowledges that young farmers face specific challenges that need to be addressed with specific actions at all levels of governance – EU, national and regional – and across policies.

23 Oct 2025

Rural youth joining forces for a better future

How do young people see the future of their villages and mountain communities? That’s the question behind the Erasmus+ ECO project which brought together teenagers from France’s Hautes-Pyrénées and Spain’s Sobrarbe regions to explore what connects them – and what challenges they share.

21 Oct 2025

Rural youth call for choice and opportunity: new EURYO policy brief highlights ‘im/mobility’ as a right

A new policy brief by the European Rural Youth Observatory (EURYO) calls for a transformative shift: from viewing youth mobility as a symptom of rural decline to seeing it as a vital expression of choice and renewal.