Events

  SAVE THE DATE: International conference SMART VILLAGES FOR A GREEN, DIGITAL AND RESILIENT EUROPE Friday, 1st October 2021, 9:00 to 16:30, Rajhenburg Castle, Cesta izgnancev 3, Brestanica, Slovenia   How to make our rural areas more attractive, vibrant and dynamic? Rural areas provide us with our food, homes, jobs, and essential ecosystem services. But […]

Join us on 13 October 2021 at 11:30 CET for an interactive virtual discussion on Connectivity Sparking Rural Innovation, an event organised by EU40, the European Parliament RUMRA and Smart Villages Intergroup & REInA (Rural European Innovation Area). The aim of the event is to bring to light innovative solutions on implementing smart technologies in rural, remote, and sparsely populated areas. We’ll be bringing together policymakers […]

The FREE Initiative (Future of Rural Energy in Europe) and the RUMRA & Smart Villages Intergroup are delighted to invite you to the second webinar of the series Get out of Town – Fill the Rural Energy Gap. These briefing sessions are aimed at MEPs, MEP assistants and members of the Intergroup. They will focus […]

Regional Workshop of the Smart Rural 21 Project: Enabling Future Smart Villages The workshop is organised in the framework of the EU-funded 1st Preparatory Action on Smart Rural areas in the 21st Century (shortly called Smart Rural 21) project in cooperation with Stanz im Mürztal (selected Smart Rural 21 village), with the purpose of: Presenting the outcomes […]

30 March, 15:00-16:00, Zoom webinar, debate on rural development hosted by the RUMRA & Smart Villages Intergroup in the European Parliament   SCALING UP: Lessons learnt from LEADER and what role can public, private partnerships play in rural development?   Moderator Eddy Wax, Politico’s agriculture evangelist   Debaters Dr Manuela Rottmann, Parliamentary State Secretary in […]

The 'Farm to Fork' strategy - one of the Green Deal’s building blocks - puts forward several actions that cover all steps from food production to consumption. Among others, actions to support food consumption include helping consumers in making informed food choices for healthy and sustainable diets, via labelling rules. In October 2021, the European […]

Please mark your calendars for a joint meeting of the URBAN and RUMRA Intergroups on urban-rural partnerships: How can urban-rural partnerships promote Europe's green transition and territorial agenda? The event will take place on Thursday 23 June 14:00-16:00 in person in the European Parliament (JAN 6Q1).   Detailed agenda will follow soon but those who would like to already […]

In light of the fast-growing movement related to the development of rural and remote areas and smart villages, a delegation of the RUMRA & Smart Villages Intergroup in the European Parliament visited the first ever finalised Smart Village in the South Caucasus, on 22 September 2022. In the run up to the visit of the […]

In October 2022, more than 150 mountain stakeholders from all over Europe gathered in Camigliatello Silano in Calabria, Italy, to take part in the 12th European Mountain Convention on “Smart mountains: how to make our territories attractive and future oriented”. As a main outcome of the Convention, the Sila Declaration was co-developed to give shape […]

This seminar will be part of the Presidency of the Czech Republic in the Council of the EU and will be organized jointly by the NAT commission of the CoR and the European Parliament Intergroup RUMRA/Smart Villages. It is closely connected to the Long-term vision for the EU's rural areas, published at the end of […]