Good practice webinar: Strengthening rural businesses for a more competitive Europe: creating value through business support, territorial assets and social economy

This Good Practice Webinar will explore initiatives that strengthen rural competitiveness through business support, access to finance, local value creation and social economy approaches. It will exchange practical examples and lessons on building resilient, diversified and competitive rural economies by valorising territorial assets, supporting entrepreneurship and fostering collective business models.

The event, organised by the Rural Pact Support Office, will explore initiatives that strengthen rural competitiveness by improving access to finance and business support, creating higher value from rural resources and territorial assets, and fostering entrepreneurial and business models, including social economy approaches.

It will showcase policy measures and practical examples ranging from microfinance and business advisory centres to bioeconomy and circular value chains, quality schemes, territorial branding and cooperative business models. These examples will illustrate different ways of building more resilient, diversified and competitive rural economies that contribute to Europe’s overall competitiveness.

Register your interst on the link below before 28 August 2028