Agriculture and rural development: quality agriculture and sustainable rural development at the heart of AER member Regions' interests
FIRST INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON COOPERATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT
The 1st International Forum on Cooperation in Rural Development (FICODER) is an initiative of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Junta de Andalucia (the regional autonomous government of Andalusia) in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs.
The main aim of this initiative is to make it possible to BRING TOGETHER the stakeholders in rural development, on a local, regional, national and European level, as well as with non-EU countries. It will constitute a space allowing the participants to reflect on the present and the future of cooperation; to show the results of the policies implemented for rural development and, particularly, to establish partnerships made up of members sharing common interests.
This forum will take place on 8-10 June 2009 in Sevilla, Andalusia (ES).
For more information, including the agenda for this meeting, please visit http://www.ficoder.es/?lang=en
QUESTIONNAIRE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN EUROPEAN REGIONS
The European Commission’s conference on ‘Rural areas in action’, which took place on 16 and 17 October 2008 in Limassol, Cyprus, served as a starting point for activities carried out by the European Network for Rural Development (EN RD). This newly launched structure, bringing together policy-makers, administrators, academics and other key actors in the area of rural development, aims at facilitating a debate over the future of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), focusing in particular on the added-value of its second pillar. Mr Claude Tremouille, AER Committee 1’s vice-president, is a member of EN RD’s Coordination Committee, an advisory body that assists the European Commission in preparing and implementing the network’s activities.
In order to reinforce AER’s position on the future of CAP and thus enable us to defend it more accurately when it comes to issues regarding the EN RD and with regard to newly elected European Parliament and Commission, AER invited all member regions to fill-in the below questionnaire on rural development policies in Europe. The objective of our survey was to learn more about rural development policy within the regions, namely how region define urban/rural areas, what economic sectors are present within its rural territories, as well as how European funds dedicated to the CAP second pillar are managed in the different countries (on a national or local level).
The results of the AER survey are now available below.
For more information concerning this initiative please contact Ms Justyna Podralska, AER Committee 1’s policy coordinator - j.podralska@aer.eu
Questionnaire on rural development policies
Summary of the AER survey results
19 AND 20 FEBRUARY 2009: MEETING OF RUR@CT NETWORK's STEERING COMMITTEE AND CONFERENCE ON TERRITORIAL COHESION
RUR@CT is a cooperation network gathering European regions to promote rural innovation and territorial cohesion at an operational and regional level, but also within a strategic perspective at the European level.
A methodological guide for the transfer of good practices is available on the web site www.ruract.eu. A database with a new graphic structure will be online on 31th January 2009. Thanks to this database, Member Regions of the network will have access to an index of 50 good practices analyzed and evaluated in terms of transferability. If your Region wishes to become a member of the network, a charter to be signed can be download on the web site, and a form to be filled in is also available online.
A transnational steering committee will be held in Limoges on 19th February 2009. Its agenda will be mainly the inauguration of RUR@CT tools and the operational launching of the processes for the transfer of good practices between European Regions involved in the network.
This meeting will be followed on 20th February 2009 by a conference and strategic debate about the green paper of European Commission (DG REGIO) on territorial cohesion, for which RUR@CT network will propose a contribution through a common political declaration.
These two days will be to gather the official and political representatives of RUR@CT Regions, and from European institutions. Your are invited to this event, and if you wish to attend it, please find attached the following documents :
- draft agenda for the two days
- registration form (to be sent back before the 3rd of February 2009)
- practical information (plan of Limoges, meeting venue and accomodation)
For more detailed information, please contact Cédric LEGER (c-leger(at)cr-limousin.fr) or Justyna Podralska (j.podralska@aer.eu).
Draft agenda
Registration form
Practical information
Workshop's programme and registration form
Newsletter
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Newsletter August 2008
Final Conclusions of the AER Conference on rural development (Oppland-N, 29/02/2008)
Conclusions of Kriti conference (GR), 15 - 16 October 2006
Final conclusions of the Conference on the promotion of competitive regions, 24 November 2005, Devon (UK)
Declaration on the future of rural areas adopted in Bari, 13 - 15 May 2004
AER Interim Report on the revision of CAP, adopted by Committee C in Pecs and amended by the General Assembly, Naples (2002)
- The last meeting of the working group took place in Limoges, Limousin (F) on 1st April 2009
All working papers are available under http://www.aer.eu/events/regional-development/2009/limoges.html Please log-in in order to access the documents.
AER report on the EC conference on rural development, Limassol, Cyprus, 16-17 October 2008
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