30-31 March 2009: "Capacity Building Seminar for national networks"
Agenda [ PDF
] Includes FR and DE language versions
Day one- 30th March 2009
Morning session
- 'Opening words’ of Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission [ PDF
] - 'Keys of success of networking: existing concepts and instruments, theoretical and practical dimensions' by Harald Katzmair, Expert for network analysis, FAS research [ PDF
] - 'Overview of set up of national and regional networks and first identification of challenges' by Martin Law, Contact Point of the European Network for Rural Development (EN RD) [ PDF
] - 'How to build a strategy? What instruments to support the strategy?'
by Michel Ehrhart, Deputy of Sub-Directorate for Rural Development and Horses, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, France [ PDF
];
by Jan Swoboda, Head of NRN, Germany [ PDF
] - 'How to find the right synergies and establishing interlinks at regional and national levels as well as at EU level?'
by André Marcon, President of Euromontana [ PDF
];
by Michel Guglielmi, Representative of Rhône-Alpes regional rural network, France [ PDF
] - 'European Network for Rural Development: expectations for national rural networks and support to be delivered' by José Manuel Sousa Uva, Director, DG AGRI, European Commission [ PDF
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]
Workshop A: Strategic framework for national rural networks
Presentations by:
- Henk Kieft, NRN, the Netherlands [ PDF
]
- Maria Gustafsson, NRN, Sweden [ PDF
]
- Camillo Zaccarini Bonelli, NRN, Italy [ PDF
]
- John Lougheed, Head of Unit: European Network and monitoring of rural development policy, Directorate-General for Agriculture & Rural Development, European Commission [ PDF
]
Workshop B: Efficient tools and interlinks between networks
Presentations by:
- Severine Bressaud, Contact Point of the EN RD [ PDF
]
- Ivo Tartaglia, consultant, LAG manager and coordinator of the ELREN TNC project, Italy [ PDF
]
- Thomas Bertilsson, COPA-COGECA [ PDF
]
- Leo Maier, Head of Unit: Evaluation of measures applicable to agriculture; studies, Directorate-General for Agriculture & Rural Development, European Commission [ PDF
]
Day two- 31st March 2009
Reports of the workshops from day one
Presentations by:
- Paul Keating, rapporteur of workshop A, NRN, Ireland [ PDF
]
- Marga de Jong, rapporteur of workshop B, NRN, the Netherlands [ PDF
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