RYEurope helps to create European Youth Goals

Between the 17-19 April, Rural Youth Europe was representing our members at the European Union Structured Dialogue with youth in Sofia Bulgaria. The event saw around 200 young people and policy makers come together to discuss the concerns of young people from throughout Europe and to formulate a vision of the future that young people wish to create. During the …

Local Study Visits about Youth Participation

As preparation for Rural Youth Europe events in 2018 all participants are asked to do a local study visit about ‘youth participation’. The aim of the study visit is to get familiar with how rural youth can in various ways get actively involved in society. It is up to you what kind of youth participation you want to study during …

Wanted: Young Farmers experience in working with Protected Areas

You are a young farmer, or you know a young farmer facing the challenge to work with or within a protected area or National Park? Then we need your voice! My name is Steffi Burger, I am 25 years old and I work as Policy and Communications assistant for the Europarc Federation, based in Regensburg in Germany and I want …

Rural youth encouraged to have their say about change they want to see

An initiative designed to research and better understand rural young people, aged 18-28, is being launched today. The Rural Youth Project coincides with the 2018 Year of Young People and will combine an online survey, year-long in-depth video logs (vlogs) of 15-20 rural young people and a Rural Youth Ideas Festival. The target countries for the research are: England, Scotland, …

Behind the Scenes of Rural Youth Project

  You might know Rural Youth Project as an opportunity to win free spots to the Rally or, possibly, you have never even noticed the existence of this Rural Youth Europe’s competition at all. Whatever is the case,  Rural Youth Europe views the Rural Youth Project as something more than a competition. It is a platform to showcase the good …

Grand Prepped!

The event teams for the 2018 events met the 14th until the 18th of March in Stirling Scotland and were joined by the board towards the end of the week. The meeting was called Grand Prep and consisted of team building and preparation work for the Rally, the Autumn Seminar and also development of a new type of event for …

Presenting new board members

This autumn Rural Youth Europe got two new board members. Here’s their formal introductions, enjoy 🙂 Both Linzi and Āris answered same tricky questions than members before them. Here are the questions: Who are you? What’s your backround on rural matters? What’s your best Rural Youth Europe memory? Why did you decide to run to become a board member? A …

Rural Youth Europe Present at the Rural Parliament

Anja Fortuna from the Slovenian Rural Youth Association recently attended the European Rural Parliament in the Netherlands on behalf of Rural Youth Europe.   A small village in the Netherlands hosted the 3rd European Rural Parliament (ERP) between 18th – 21st October 2017. The event was initiated by PREPARE network for rural development, European Rural Community Alliance and European LEADER …

Senior Member of the Year

When I joined my local Young Farmers club (YFC) at the age of 12, I never even knew there was more than a couple of clubs in my area.