NRN Meetings
15th NRN Meeting
8-9th May,2012, Ähtäri, Finland
Background/Preparatory Material
- What do we know about Networking as a Rural Development Policy Tool (2007-2013)? - A Discussion Paper from the ENRD (May 2012) [PDF
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- NRN Mapping Synthesis Report for 2011 by ENRD[PDF
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- Newsletter on outcomes of NRN Programme Workshops by EENRD [PDF
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8th – 9th May 2012, Ähtäri, Finland, 2012
- Agenda [PDF
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- Summary of the meeting [PDF
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Introduction to the meeting
- Welcome statement by Päivi Kujala (Director of the Rural Network Unit, Finland) [PDF
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- Welcome address by Heimo Hanhilahti (Director General, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland) [PDF
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Introducing the programme of the 2 days
- Donald Aquilina (ENRD-Contact Point) [Prezi ZIP
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Introduction to what has worked well and less well in National Rural Networks:
- Understanding Networking by Adrian Neal (ENRD CP) [Prezi ZIP
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- Mid-Term Evaluation of the National Rural Network Programmes: What can we learn from it? by Angelos Sanopoulos (EENRD) [PDF
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- Case Study – The Italian NRN Programme by Francesca Angori (Evaluator of the Italian Network Programme) [PDF
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Results from the World Café Workshops – Day 1 (Tuesday 8th May 2012)
- Workshop A – The Current understanding of networking as an RD Policy Tool) [PDF
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- Workshop B – The factors that are influencing the efficiency and effectiveness of the NSUs and the networking function) [PDF
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- Workshop C – The role of Monitoring and Evaluation/self-assessment in improving the value of networking as an RD policy tool) [PDF
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Results from the Open Space Workshops – Day 2 (Wednesday 9th May 2012)
- Bridging the gap between programming periods(Hans-Olof Stålgren, SE NSU) ) [PDF
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- Networking success stories (Mark Redman, ENRD CP) [PDF
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- Building social capital as NRN (Henk Kieft, NL NRN) ) [PDF
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- What shall be the focus in evaluation of networks? and What indicators shall be applied in evaluation of NRN? (Jela Tvrdonova, EENRD) and the NRN intervention Logic (Maria Gustafsson, SE NSU) ) [PDF
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- Structure of network: Open? Members? (Huub Kwantes, NL NRN & Päivi Kujala, FI NSU) ) [PDF
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- Minimum criteria for an NSU (Adrian Neal, EENRD CP) ) [PDF
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- Can the rural parliament be the NRN? (Alistair Prior, Scotland NRN) ) [PDF
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- Relationship MA-NSU: Clarify what networking is and how to fulfill objectives (Inés Jordana, RO NRN) ) [PDF
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- What are the ‘criteria that could be adopted to ensure that the resources allocated to NRNs are based on ‘needs’ (Donald Aquilina, ENRD CP) ) [PDF
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Results from the Feedback Form and Comments - [PDF
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Forthcoming Activities
- 16th NRN Meeting by Phivos Papachristoforou (Cypriot NRN) [PDF
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- Update on the NRN forthcoming activities [PDF
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