4th ERYP Final Event
The European Rural Youth Parliament calls for action
As a striking outbreak, the Second European Parliament for Rural Youth issued a declaration summarizing 10 desirable actions to help address the key challenges facing rural youth. The document reflects current challenges and concrete steps that decision-makers and other young people need to take to make the countryside a better place to live. This is the result of several 2-year networking and opinion-gathering activities that reached their zenith by bringing together 70 young professionals from 16 countries.
As a striking outbreak, the Second European Parliament for Rural Youth issued a declaration summarizing 10 desirable actions to help address the key challenges facing rural youth. The document reflects current challenges and concrete steps that decision-makers and other young people need to take to make the countryside a better place to live. This is the result of several 2-year networking and opinion-gathering activities that reached their zenith by bringing together 70 young professionals from 16 countries.
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4th ERP Press Release Final Event
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate use
The European Rural Parliament
Demands a real Rural Agenda for Europe
The 4th European Rural Parliament was held in Candás, Asturias, Spain from November 6-9, 2019.
335 delegates representing 38 European countries participated, included rural people, representatives of civil society organisations, researchers, national governments and European Union institutions. This was preceded on November 4-6 by the 2nd European Rural Youth Parliament ERYP, in which 70 young delegates from 14 countries gathered to share their perspective on rural life. The 2nd European Rural Youth Parliament issued a Declaration with 10 calls for action regarding the most urgent challenges faced by young Europeans. Through these very interactive and colourful events, many inspirational talks, workshops, field visits, markets showed the positive energy, ideas and passion of rural people and their organisations.
The European Rural Parliament is a unique and dynamic partnership between 41 national civil society organisations and 6 pan-European rural networks, all working for rural people. The partnership spans most of wider Europe, from Iceland to Turkey and Portugal to Ukraine with an extensive grass-roots membership working with village and community issues.
The participants of the 4th European Rural Parliament agreed upon the Rural People´s Declaration of Candás Asturias on 9th November, after discussions on actual megatrends. What is the political and economic price to pay for exits, exodus and rising populism? Are national governments and EU too attached in growth thinking combined with a dominating urban Agenda? Is sectoral thinking, programming, management and financing the best solution for rural communities and economy?
The Declaration suggests working together in partnership for a “real” Rural Agenda for 2021-2027 recognising the critical importance of rural areas whilst opening the path for flexible, decentralised, territorial and place-based solutions where all stakeholders cooperate for the common good. Strategic, economic, environmental and social plans would take into account the variety of rural realities, even declining ones. We must be ready to better meet existing and upcoming challenges like ageing, social exclusion, immigration, exodus, food security, environment and climate change. New technologies and faster connections bring opportunities, but these are and will be unequal in Europe.
Speaking to the 4th ERP, Mihail Dumitru, Deputy Director General of DG Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, supported the value of the ERP in bringing together so many countries and people across Europe with a common passion for the maintenance of our rural territories. The new Commission for 2019-2024 is tasked with “developing a new long-term vision for rural areas and ensuring that the needs of rural areas are specifically catered for in national Strategic Plans under the new CAP”[1].
The ERP partners will now work to ensure that the voices and messages of the 4th ERP Gathering will be heard in the corridors of power in Brussels and also in the national governments across Europe.
ENDS
Notes to Editors
The Rural People’s Declaration of Candás is attached. Photographs are available on request.
The European Rural Parliament is jointly initiated by:
The European Rural Community Alliance www.ruralcommunities.eu
PREPARE Partnership for Rural Europe www.preparenetwork.org
European LEADER Association for Rural Development www.elard.eu
The 4th European Rural Parliament was attended by rural citizens from 38 countries, including:
(inside the EU) Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom –with participants from England, N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
(outside the EU) Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
The host for the 4th European Rural Parliament was Red Asturiana de Desarrollo Rural (READER)
For further information contact:
Kim Smedslund – ERP: tel: +358 40 5833356 email: [email protected]
Vanessa Halhead – ERP: tel: +44 1381 600736 email: [email protected]
Marta Vergara Forés – READER: email: [email protected]
European Rural Parliament websites: www.europeanruralparliament.com and www.erp2019.eu
The European Rural Parliament is part-funded from the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Commission.
[1] President Elect Ursula von der Leyen’s Mission Letter
For immediate use
The European Rural Parliament
Demands a real Rural Agenda for Europe
The 4th European Rural Parliament was held in Candás, Asturias, Spain from November 6-9, 2019.
335 delegates representing 38 European countries participated, included rural people, representatives of civil society organisations, researchers, national governments and European Union institutions. This was preceded on November 4-6 by the 2nd European Rural Youth Parliament ERYP, in which 70 young delegates from 14 countries gathered to share their perspective on rural life. The 2nd European Rural Youth Parliament issued a Declaration with 10 calls for action regarding the most urgent challenges faced by young Europeans. Through these very interactive and colourful events, many inspirational talks, workshops, field visits, markets showed the positive energy, ideas and passion of rural people and their organisations.
The European Rural Parliament is a unique and dynamic partnership between 41 national civil society organisations and 6 pan-European rural networks, all working for rural people. The partnership spans most of wider Europe, from Iceland to Turkey and Portugal to Ukraine with an extensive grass-roots membership working with village and community issues.
The participants of the 4th European Rural Parliament agreed upon the Rural People´s Declaration of Candás Asturias on 9th November, after discussions on actual megatrends. What is the political and economic price to pay for exits, exodus and rising populism? Are national governments and EU too attached in growth thinking combined with a dominating urban Agenda? Is sectoral thinking, programming, management and financing the best solution for rural communities and economy?
The Declaration suggests working together in partnership for a “real” Rural Agenda for 2021-2027 recognising the critical importance of rural areas whilst opening the path for flexible, decentralised, territorial and place-based solutions where all stakeholders cooperate for the common good. Strategic, economic, environmental and social plans would take into account the variety of rural realities, even declining ones. We must be ready to better meet existing and upcoming challenges like ageing, social exclusion, immigration, exodus, food security, environment and climate change. New technologies and faster connections bring opportunities, but these are and will be unequal in Europe.
Speaking to the 4th ERP, Mihail Dumitru, Deputy Director General of DG Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, supported the value of the ERP in bringing together so many countries and people across Europe with a common passion for the maintenance of our rural territories. The new Commission for 2019-2024 is tasked with “developing a new long-term vision for rural areas and ensuring that the needs of rural areas are specifically catered for in national Strategic Plans under the new CAP”[1].
The ERP partners will now work to ensure that the voices and messages of the 4th ERP Gathering will be heard in the corridors of power in Brussels and also in the national governments across Europe.
ENDS
Notes to Editors
The Rural People’s Declaration of Candás is attached. Photographs are available on request.
The European Rural Parliament is jointly initiated by:
The European Rural Community Alliance www.ruralcommunities.eu
PREPARE Partnership for Rural Europe www.preparenetwork.org
European LEADER Association for Rural Development www.elard.eu
The 4th European Rural Parliament was attended by rural citizens from 38 countries, including:
(inside the EU) Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom –with participants from England, N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
(outside the EU) Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
The host for the 4th European Rural Parliament was Red Asturiana de Desarrollo Rural (READER)
For further information contact:
Kim Smedslund – ERP: tel: +358 40 5833356 email: [email protected]
Vanessa Halhead – ERP: tel: +44 1381 600736 email: [email protected]
Marta Vergara Forés – READER: email: [email protected]
European Rural Parliament websites: www.europeanruralparliament.com and www.erp2019.eu
The European Rural Parliament is part-funded from the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Commission.
[1] President Elect Ursula von der Leyen’s Mission Letter
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The European Rural Youth Parliament will be held in Latvia
On August 11, 2017, young people from the European Union, the Balkans and the countries of the Black Sea region will gather in Ratnieki, Ligatne district, to participate in the first European Youth Parliament (ERYP). There will be representatives from Denmark, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Great Britain, Latvia, Armenia and Albania. The results of ERYP will be included in the European Rural Parliament, which will take place this October in the city of Vernhost, Netherlands.
During the ERYP young people from Europe rural areas will address the challenges of the 21st century rural youth in an interactive way. The focus of ERYP will be on both young people who are currently living in the rural area and those who have left rural areas for various reasons. How to create conditions that would allow young people to successfully develop business ideas, to ensure their personal fulfillment by still living in rural areas? As urban dwellers also people living in rural areas should be able to access the social and economic benefits of global urbanization, where digitalisation plays an important role.
The space of European Rural area is different. The Southern European countries, which are currently experiencing the crisis of asylum seekers, the Balkan countries and Armenia with the rural population's challenges in mountainous areas, but the whole rural area experiencing an overall reduction of population, which results with an increase of urbanization level.
At the event there will be a chance to learn about the significant differences in the working session "The Europe Spirit", to hear introduction of various countries and their attempts to see the common between them in work sessions "Rural Village in Europe" and "Youth Voice", and get inspired about the solutions offered by young people together with European and Latvian rural development experts in the section "Rural youth opportunities in Europe".
The ERYP is organized by the association "Latvian Rural Forum", "Latvian 4H" and Village Action Association of Finland and it is organized to prepare for the European Rural Parliament in October this year, which is a civil society movement of rural regions, and is intended to bring the attention of European politicians and policy makers to rural civil society voice. The European Rural Youth Parliament is the start of uniting rural youth voice to a promising rural future in Europe. ERYP working language will be English.
For possible membership in the European Youth Parliament we invite you to contact the organizers.
CONTACTS
Āris Ādlers, Latvian Rural Forum
E-mail: [email protected], Tel: 26468620
MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Association "Latvian Rural Forum": http://llf.partneribas.lv/lv/
"Latvian 4H": http://www.mazpulki.lv/
During the ERYP young people from Europe rural areas will address the challenges of the 21st century rural youth in an interactive way. The focus of ERYP will be on both young people who are currently living in the rural area and those who have left rural areas for various reasons. How to create conditions that would allow young people to successfully develop business ideas, to ensure their personal fulfillment by still living in rural areas? As urban dwellers also people living in rural areas should be able to access the social and economic benefits of global urbanization, where digitalisation plays an important role.
The space of European Rural area is different. The Southern European countries, which are currently experiencing the crisis of asylum seekers, the Balkan countries and Armenia with the rural population's challenges in mountainous areas, but the whole rural area experiencing an overall reduction of population, which results with an increase of urbanization level.
At the event there will be a chance to learn about the significant differences in the working session "The Europe Spirit", to hear introduction of various countries and their attempts to see the common between them in work sessions "Rural Village in Europe" and "Youth Voice", and get inspired about the solutions offered by young people together with European and Latvian rural development experts in the section "Rural youth opportunities in Europe".
The ERYP is organized by the association "Latvian Rural Forum", "Latvian 4H" and Village Action Association of Finland and it is organized to prepare for the European Rural Parliament in October this year, which is a civil society movement of rural regions, and is intended to bring the attention of European politicians and policy makers to rural civil society voice. The European Rural Youth Parliament is the start of uniting rural youth voice to a promising rural future in Europe. ERYP working language will be English.
For possible membership in the European Youth Parliament we invite you to contact the organizers.
CONTACTS
Āris Ādlers, Latvian Rural Forum
E-mail: [email protected], Tel: 26468620
MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Association "Latvian Rural Forum": http://llf.partneribas.lv/lv/
"Latvian 4H": http://www.mazpulki.lv/
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