Rural Voices Rural Youth Europe

We are back at the European Youth Centre in Budapest for our 2024 Study Session entitled ‘Rural Youth Work 101’.  In collaboration with the Council of Europe Youth Department, we brought together 35 participants from across our member organisations to exchange ideas, experiences and knowledge in relation to resilient rural youth work. Dan chats to the participants, prep team members, Course Director Martin Siemen and Eva Kotnik, member of the Advisory Council of Youth at the Council of Europe. 

We are at the final conference of the COCOREADO Project in Brussels which is an opportunity to present the results that the project has obtained over the last few years. In this episode, Dan chats to Project Coordinator Tessa Avermaete from KU Leuven, Mikelis Grivins from the Baltic Studies Centre, Marko Debeljak from the Jozef Stefan Instituteand Tomás da Cruz ... Read More

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).