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European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA)

Institution overall role: CEJA is the voice of Europe’s next generation of farmers to the European institutions. In total, CEJA represents around one million young farmers in Europe and actively cooperates with other young farmers’ organisations in the European Union.

Role and priorities/objectives in knowledge transfer & innovation: CEJA’s main objective is to promote a younger and innovative agricultural sector across the EU-27 and to create good working and living conditions for young people setting up in farming and those who are already “Young Farmers”.

CEJA advocates for the creation of a European policy in favour of young farmers to give a clear signal that Europe wants to maintain its agricultural sector. It believes that EU policy should support agriculture through such areas as strengthening education and training facilities for young people in rural areas, improving access to land and production rights, encouraging young people without an agricultural background to choose a future in farming and guidance for young farmers in the process of setting up.

Research & innovation links: CEJA is regularly involved in pan-European projects that focus on young farmers, which can be found here: https://www.ceja.eu/en/projects/projects.

Institutional networking linkages: Based in Brussels, CEJA represents 28 member organisations and one observer member from across EU Member States. CEJA member organisations can be found at this link: https://www.ceja.eu/en/members

Homepage: https://www.ceja.eu/

Contact details:
Rue Belliard 23/A Bte 8
1040 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0) 2 230 4210
Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 1805
E-mail: allusers@ceja.eu