Official launch event of the Rural toolkit – an opportunity to learn more about funding opportunities for EU rural areas.
The Rural toolkit is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI). It is part of the long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas.
The highly anticipated EU-FarmBook platform goes live on the 8th of February 2024 and is ready to receive practice-oriented materials, derived from EU-funded projects.
In celebration of this milestone, the project’s stakeholders are gearing up for a pre-launch online event that promises to be an insightful occasion specifically for Project Coordinators (H2020 and Horizon Europe) and Stakeholders (EU, Regional, and National Policy Makers).
SCIENTIFIC STUDY: the evolution of Romanian organic agriculture over 12 years, between 2010-2021, especially regarding the organic cultivated area and crop structure, having also in view the global context of the agricultural organic sector. The analysis highlighted an important development of the organic area during this timeframe, based, mainly, on permanent grassland, cereals, industrial crops, and “other crops”, at the end of the interval Romania was among the countries with the highest contribution to the increase of the European organic land area.
The involvement of the Ruralities project in the actions of revitalizing the territory for the elaboration of the Local Development Strategy 2023-2027 demonstrates the fact that participatory governance actions, based on the quadruple helix principle (local authorities, civil society, the university-academic environment, and the entrepreneurial environment) represent the solution to the preparation of a document programmatically assumed by community members.
If we want for ourselves and the next generations a healthy diet, if we want, on the other hand, not to lose the stories of the dishes from our culture, if we want to bring to our families’ tables as clean and tasty food as possible , we need to rediscover the links of value between the urban and rural worlds.
RoRuralia Living Lab is connecting stakeholders from the Romanian North East Development Region for identifying and assessing the particular issues of the rural and urban systems.
RoRuralia hub is a component of the RDRP ecosystem.
This website was created within the RURALITIES project, funded by the European Commission, within the Horizon Europe program, under funding contract number 101060876.