The Rural Inspiration Awards ceremony was the final stage in a competition recognising projects from across the EU. The third edition of these awards had five winners, announced by DG AGRI Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski during the online award ceremony, as part of the ENRD ‘Rural Vision Week’. Watch it here!
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This virtual workshop looked to identify the success factors and added value delivered by projects and consider how successful projects can be identified, communicated and used in networking. The workshop also allowed to exchange the lessons learned from successful projects, and how these success experiences can best be communicated and transferred.
The ENRD Contact Point and the rural networks of Flanders and Wallonia co-organised the 18th NRN Meeting, which explored how NRNs have responded to the challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and specific lessons learned in adapting methodologies.
The meeting addressed digital methods of exchange and dissemination, efficient online communication, and ways of targeting specific stakeholders.
Pages 25-27 of the Rural Review 27.
A series of examples of good evaluation practices through networking.
Page 22 of the Rural Review 27.
Networking activity developed by the IT NRN in partnership with a network of agricultural high-schools to develop and deliver common educational information & coordinated comm materials on agriculture and rural issues to school age students.
Page 20 of the Rural Review 27.
Text on the workshops organised by the FR NRN on gender equality promotion in rural areas.
Networking – and rural development networking is a prime example of this – is first and foremost about people. It is about coming together, developing new ways of thinking and operating, and building something new, together; something that is bigger than the sum of its individual parts; and...
This 'How to' section provides guidance on creating a National Rural Network (NRN) communication plan.