European Rural Parliament
What is The European Rural Parliament?
The European Rural Parliament is designed:
- to strengthen the voice of the rural communities of Europe, and to ensure that the interests and well-being of these communities are strongly reflected in national and European policies.
- Promote self-help, common understanding, solidarity, exchange of good practice and cooperation among rural communities throughout Europe.
- Enable rural people to play their full role in addressing the great economic and political challenges which are currently affecting Europe.
The European institutions are struggling to face these challenges alone, and need to connect more with those on the ground to understand rural areas’ concerns, and the aspirations of European citizens. The ERP was set up to help doing this.
WHEN IS The NEXT European Rural Parliament?
Our Scottish partner, Scottish Rural Action, will be hosting the sixth European Rural Parliament (ERP), bringing a 40-country delegation to Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Cairngorms National Park area in the Autumn of 2025.
This is the first time Scotland has been selected to host the ERP gathering, and 2025’s theme is ‘Rural Community Solutions to Global Challenges’.
The event will take place from 21 to 23 October, 2025.
Who organises it?
The European Rural Parliament is co-initiated by three pan-European networks
Conlusions from the 5th ERP in Kielce, Poland (2022)
We, around 400 participants from 39 European countries, met during the 5th European Rural Parliament, gathering rural people,
representatives of civil society organisations, researchers, entrepreneurs, national governments and European Union institutions.
ERP in previous years
EUROPEAN RURAL PARLIAMENT 2022
12th - 15th of September 2022, Kielce
Around 400 participants from 39 European countries met during the 5th European Rural Parliament, ERP, in Kielce, Poland, from 12 to 15 September 2022. The conference consisted of workshops, study visits, networking activities and panels.