Rural Voices Rural Youth Europe

In this episode, Dan attends our policy workshop as part of the COCOREADO project. We have bought together policy makers from EU institutions as well as COCOREADO project partners and ambassadors, to discuss and highlight the work of COCOREADO, as well as unveil our new project policy brief: “Empowering young citizens involvement towards sustainable food systems”. Dan chats to Tomás da Cruz Machado, COCOREADO Project Manager, Ricard Ramon from DG Agri, Lisa Van Den Bossche from ILVO and Carlo Celis, a COCOREADO ambassador.   

Healthy youth workers - healthy youth. We are looking back at the 2023 Autumn Seminar hosted by Umbrella in Georgia. Dan chats to three members of the prep team - Doglas, Nikoloz and Anja - who take a look back at their highlights of the week, as well as the event’s theme of health as a human right. We also hear from participants from England, Slovenia, Wales, Austria, Norway and Northern Ireland. 

As 2023 comes to an end, we’re taking a look back over the past year and chatting to the winners of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards! Our annual awards aim to showcase the very best of our member organisations. In this episode, Dan chats to Linda, Roberts and Kitija from Latvian 4H who were involved in ‘Give Way to Youth’, which won this year’s ‘Project of the Year’. Dan also chats to Sian Healey from Pontfaen Young Farmers in Wales, this year’s ‘Inspirational Club of the Year’, as well as Ragnhild Eriksen from Norwegian Rural Youth who won this year’s ‘Inspirational Person of the Year’. 

Grow. Eat. Repeat. We are at the 2023 European Rally in Carinthia, Austria, for our biggest event of the year. Dan chats to the prep team and participants throughout the course of the week, which involves plenty of intercultural exchange, as well as sessions about the circular economy of food. We’re also joined by a couple of experts including Johanna Michenthaler who talks about meat consumption and Lydia Lienhart, an expert on food waste. Make sure you also take a look at Lydia’s YouTube (https://youtube.com/@lydiaexplains?si=9LdWIXfNR2lJJsc1) and Instagram (@lydiaexplains). 

In this episode Dan chats to Florian Lassnig and Daniela Hinteregger from Landjugend Österreich about this year’s European Rally in Austria. With just two weeks to go before the rally bell will be ringing, they discuss the importance of this year’s theme ‘Grow - Eat - Repeat’, what happened at this year’s Grand Prep meeting and give lots of advice to the participants on what to expect at this year’s rally! 

We are in Riga for the third COCOREADO ambassador training! This episode is co-hosted by the ambassadors and they talk about how they are ‘campaigning for change’ in the context of the COCOREADO project. Hear more about the ambassadors, what they’ve learnt from the training, the power of campaigning and the strength of the COCOREADO network.