
S4 Episode 1 | Study Session 2023


S3 Episode 7 | Autumn Seminar 2022


S3 Episode 6 | COCOREADO Training 2



S3 Episode 5 | European Rally 2022


S3 Episode 4 | Jiggy with it June!



S3 Episode 3 | Make The Moove



S3 Episode 2 | COCOREADO Training 1



S3 Episode 1 | Study Session 2022



S2 Campfire Stories | Live from Dublin!

S2 Episode 6 | LGBTI Inclusion – Part 2



S2 Episode 5 | LGBTI Inclusion – Part 1



S2 Bonus Episode | The COCOREADO Project

S2 Episode 4 | Rural Up – our Online Rally



S2 Episode 3 | Skills for Life



S2 Episode 2 | The long-term vision for rural areas



S2 Episode 1 | We’re back with Series 2
In the first episode of the second series, Dan is tackling the topic of Brexit and how it is affecting our members. Dan speaks to Jemima Brown, an NFYFC member whose family moved to France just before the Brexit deadline, and Alex Lyttle, vegetable farmer from Northern Ireland. We also have our new ‘Campfire Stories’ game, where we hear from three past Rural Youth Europe participants.



Episode 8 | Best of Series 1
This episode is the final one of Series 1 of Rural Voices Podcasts. In this episode, Dan is looking back on the series, reminiscing about the strange year that 2020 has been for us all and reflecting on some of the interviews heard in Series 1 episodes. Dan is joined by Sebastian Lassnig who has recently finished his term as Chairman of Rural Youth Europe's board.


Episode 7 | What makes a sustainable community?
In episode 7 of Rural Voices, Dan is joined by former RYE board member Nicolai Olsen to discuss the sustainability of our rural communities. We have interviews with cultural entrepreneur and journalist, Anne-Goaitske Breteler, as well as the Chairwomen of the Danish Eco Village Network, Pia Duus Jensen.


Episode 6 | LGBTQI+ Rights & Inclusion
Episode 6 is all about LGBTQI+ Rights & Inclusion. Aris is joined by the newly elected special interests board member Siobhán Gallagher as they guide you through the episode, which features Dan's interview with Benjamin Firth, founder of AgRespect and Aris's interview with Lukas Stede from RYEurope member organisation, BDL Germany. To close the episode, Siobhán recaps the webinar "Commencing our Dialogue - LGBTI+ Positive Europe" which took place on November 2nd 2020.


Episode 5 | Rural Work & Gender
In episode 5 we are focusing on women in agriculture. Dan is joined by Daniela Allram, the Group 2 representative on the Rural Youth Europe board, and they discuss gender inequalities within the agricultural industry. We have interviews with Ruth Parkes, a Northern Irish farmer and agri-women blogger, and Doris Letina, Vice-President of CEJA.


Episode 4 | Work as a Social Right
In the fourth episode of Rural Voices we are tackling the topic of work as a social right. Dan talks to Anja Fortuna, the 2021 Slovenian Rally Chair, as well as Kandikó Rita from Fekete Sereg Nagyvázsony, a Hungarian rural youth organisation. We would have been studying this theme at our biggest event of the year, the Rural Youth Europe Rally, so in this episode we also celebrate past rallies by listening to some rally memories from past participants.


Episode 3 | Non-Formal Learning
Rural Voices is back for the third episode to learn all about non-formal education and reflect on Rural Youth Europe's webinar "Ready, Scroll, Learn!" We share the highlights from the webinar delivered by Frederik Kaae Kirk and collaborated by Andreea Maris of the Swedish National Agency of Youth and Civil Society, as well as hear the learning outcomes and personal reflections from two of the webinar attendees - Emma Ilmonen and Barbara Sterkl.


Episode 2 | Safe Spaces
In this episode we hear how rural youth organisations have created safe spaces for their members to participate during Covid lockdowns. Appearing in this episode are Rachel Goldie - NFYFC, Eirik Førde- Norway 4H and Zane Šteinberga & Patrīcija Prindule - Latvian 4-H. We also hear Moninne Griffith from BelongTo, a LGBT+ organisation from Ireland, speak about what safe spaces are and how we can create them for young people in rural areas. To find out more about their work please visit: https://www.belongto.org


Episode 1 | Shrinking Civil Spaces
In the first ever episode of Rural Voices, we learn all about Shrinking Civil Spaces in collaboration with the European Confederation of Youth Clubs at the study session hosted by the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg, France. We hear experts Rares Craiut, Secretary General European Confederation of Youth Clubs, Anna Rurka President of the Conference of INGOs, Leonie Martin Member Council of Europe Advisory Council on Youth and we also hear young people sharing their personal experiences of shrinking civil spaces.
