The Share Network, the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) Europe and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) organised a one-day Share SIRA transnational conference on ‘Strengthening and Expanding the Social Orientation and Integration of Newcomers in Rural Areas’ on 23 Continue reading →

Last week in Seville, the Joint Research Centre (JCR) of the European Commissions shared insights with territorial development networks, policy makers and experts, from which ELARD was one!

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Find the presentations from the 13^th OECD Rural Development Conference Building Sustainable, Resilient, and Thriving Rural Places held on 28-30 September 2022 in Cavan, Ireland. 

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During the last General Assembly of ELARD,  in Lednice (Czech Republic), continued by videoconference Wednesday, November 02, Thibaut Guignard, President of Leader France, was elected for president of the organisation 2023-24.

This is the whole council 2023-24:

• Thibaut Guignard, Continue reading →

RUSTIK (Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes) is a four-year transdisciplinary research project. The project aims to enable rural communities’ actors and policymakers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural Continue reading →

ELARD, ERCA, PREPARE and Polish Rural Forum signed the Rural Peoples Declaration on Thursday, the 15th of September. Unlike earlier declarations, this one states, quite strongly, that it is time to find another development paradigm than that of unlimited growth. Continue reading →

Rural Pact – New beginnings or business as usual?

On 15–16 June the first Rural Pact Conference took place. ELARD as one of the organisers of the conference, participated in the High Level opening, co-created one of the Continue reading →

Through the initiative of our french members, ELARD is happy to announce our contribution to the 8th cohesion policy report! We hope that this contribution will be taken into account from decisionmakers and policymakers and make it possible for the Continue reading →

As the first Rural Pact conference is approaching, you now have the opportunity to give feedback on the proposal made to the EU’s rural stakeholders on how to structure the Rural Pact in the future.

You can do so by Continue reading →