Vacancy at Rural Youth Europe: Project Officer Rural Youth Europe is recruiting a Project Officer. The Project Officer will be responsible for the implementation of RYE projects, from their designing stage to their implementation and their reporting. These projects will be around diverse rural youth issues, mostly with a European scope. The Project Officer reports to the Secretary General of …
Ealier this month, our Group 1 representative for the UK and Ireland, Fiona O Leary, attended the 2024 Five Nations Conference in Bangor C. Down in Northern Ireland. In her own words, here is a round-up of this incredibly informative and inspiring event. On Wednesday the 17th of October 2024, I hopped in my car after work and drove the …
At the start of October, member of our pool of external representatives (PER), Charlotte Jackson from NFYFC, attended the University of Bologna in Italy. She was attending an event entitled ‘Exploring future pathways for a sustainable food system transformation’, which was co-organised by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and the University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural and …
By Caroline O Connor, member of Macra Na Feirme, the Irish Young Farmers and Rural Youth Organisation. A friend of mine from Macra na Feirme rang me on the 20th August and asked me if I wanted to go to Manchester for 5 days to a Rural Youth Europe event on renewable energy. I was at a loose end at …
At this year’s General Assembly we were proud to welcome another member to the Rural Youth Europe family. Introducing… the Rural Youth Association of Poland! The Rural Youth Association (Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej – ZMW) is an organisation dedicated to empowering and supporting young people living in rural areas. They are an organisation gathering young people from rural and small-town communities. Since 1996, …
We are excited to announce the top three finalists in the Project of the Year category of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards! A Rural Youth Project is a project where young people have worked together towards a common goal on a voluntary basis. A project in which an individual or group of young people have worked together for the …
Introduction “We need a doctor twice a year, we may need a defence attorney once in our lives, but we need a farmer every day of our lives”. This omnipresence of farmers in our lives is largely unappreciated and undervalued by the various players in the food production system. With obstacles inherent to the job, from labour demands, low pay …
We are excited to announce that we are partners on a brand new project entitled “Sound of Mobility”. In April, our Secretary General Spyros attended the first Transnational Project Meeting, where we got to know the other project partners, discussed the consortiums tasks and made plans for the months ahead. We are excited to be joined on this project by …
On May 10th 2024, the picturesque city of Pärnu, Estonia, played host to the event aimed at presenting the outcomes of the COCOREADO project. The event kicked off with a presentation of the COCOREADO project. This introductory session set the stage for a day filled with engaging activities and discussions designed to foster understanding about the project and collaboration among …
On 24th April COCOREADO celebrated its Final Conference “Building a sustainable food future together” in Brussels. After more than three years of work, the COCOREADO project has nearly come to an end and has achieved the envisioned targets. The event was an opportunity to present the results that the project has obtained over the last few years, such as the …
