Atelier du REDR sur la lutte contre l’exode rural : créer de nouvelles opportunités pour des régions rurales dynamiques

• Opening speech, Maria Gafo, DG AGRI, European Commssion

Setting the scene

• European Shrinking Rural Areas: Challenges, Actions and Perspectives for Territorial Governance, Andrew Copus, The James Hutton Instute/ESPON
• Quality of life in rural Europe - Key findings, Klára Fóti, Eurofound
• Addressing depopulation under the current Rural Development policy and in the future CAP, Orsolya Frizon-Somogyi, DG AGRI, European Commission

Session 1

Mobility and Basic Services

• Time to rethink rural mobility, Giorgio Ambrosino, SMARTA 
• Pueblos Vivos (Living Villages) in Aragon, Patricia Sanchon, Spain 

Entrepreneurship

• SILTA project, Ville Laitila, Finland
• Rural Ticket in Asturias, Juan Lazaro, Spain 
• MagosVölgy Organic Farm, Zoltán Dezsény, Hungary

Vulnerable groups

• Promoting the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and to be included in the community, Ines Bulic-Cojocariu, ENIL
• Del bosque a tu casa (From the forest to your home), Marta Corella, Spain 

Session 2

Mediterranean Member States

• Spanish national strategy to tackle the demographic challenge, María C. Arias Calle and Aránzazu Benito Sánchez Camacho, Ministry of Territorial Policy, Spain
• Italian inner areas strategy, Sabrina Lucatelli, Presidency of Ministers' Council, Italy

Nordic Member States

• Integrated Finnish approach of Kainuu region, Jouni Ponnikas, Regional Council of Kainuu, Finland
• Smart sustainable villages of rural arctic, Johanna Lindberg, Norrbotten County Council, Sweden

Central & Eastern European Member States

• Fighting depopulation in Apuseni Mountains area, George Sinca, Alba Councy Council, Romania
• Strategies for regions facing population decline, Markus Stadler (BMNT) and Michael Fischer (Austrian NRN), Austria
• Alpine region strategy, Valentina Cativelli, EURAC Research Centre