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European Sustainable Energy Week 2024

This event will bring together public authorities, private companies, NGOs and consumers to promote initiatives accelerating decarbonisation through green technologies and solutions towards a fair and just transition for people and competitive businesses.

 
Swedish Rural Parliament

The 2024 edition of the biennial Swedish Rural Parliament is organised under the headline ‘Towards a Balanced Country – in a New Era’. It will bring together policymakers, practitioners, representatives from rural movements in other countries, entrepreneurs and scientists.

 
Building sustainable and resilient territories

The 18th edition of this international event on ‘Overarching issues of the European area’ will showcase the important role of science and academia in questioning, debating and trying to provide strategies and solutions to mitigate the multiple problems that the world faces today.

 
Bringing the Rural Pact closer to citizens

This Policy Action Lab, organised by the Rural Pact Support Office, will develop proposals on enhancing the achievement of the Rural Vision and Pact objectives at the local level.

 
Global forum on modern direct democracy

The 2024 edition of the world's largest conference on direct democracy will bring together academia, policymakers and civil society activists and organisations to discuss trust in institutions, media, and citizens, all of essential importance to democratic governance.

 
METREX Spring Conference 2024

This conference, organised by METREX (The Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas), will open a discussion with the network’s members on the urgent planning issues around the future of European metropolitan regions and areas in view of challenges such as climate change, finite resources, and wealth disparities.

 
MOVING webinar: ‘Towards a policy roadmap for vibrant mountain economies’

This webinar, organised by the MOVING project, will overview trends and proposals likely to govern the post-2027 policy developments in the EU’s mountain areas. The project will unveil its proposal for strategic options and a policy roadmap to ensure that rural and mountain areas are not excluded from EU’s future policy development.

 
Metropolitan Innovation Summit

This event, organised by METREX (The Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas), will showcase technological innovations in metropolitan areas and exchange on the role of metropolises as places for social innovation initiation.