3 500 names are now registered as geographical indications. Quality schemes protect the culinary heritage of Europe and add value to local food and drink products.
The Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023 of the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ includes calls for proposals (‘topics’ in the Horizon jargon) that are particularly relevant for rural areas and communities.
Unmet needs for medical care can be due to several reasons including financial (too expensive), distance/transport (too far/difficult to travel) or timeliness ones (waiting lists).
The EU CAP Network has released the three latest issues of their Policy Insight series featuring opportunities for support offered through the Common Agricultural Policy. These opportunities include the benefits of agroforestry, how to enhance the visibility of women’s success stories in agri-food value chains and rural development and how to help younger generations find employment in rural areas.
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The European Commission is organising the Startup Village Forum (SVF) 2023. The SVF – which is part of the Long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas - intends to promote knowledge exchange and cooperation activities and to work as an open space where institutions and stakeholders can meet, discuss and shape action for startup-driven innovation in rural areas.
The EU CAP network is launching two new thematic groups contributing to the "prosperous" part of the Rural action plan, on rural youth employment and on forest-dominant municipalities.
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The latest monthly agri-food trade report shows imports and exports of EU agri-food products in October 2022, with a special focus on wheat and maize in the world.
As you know, we have released our new website last month. We are now developing the collaborative parts, namely the rural pact and the rural revitalisation platforms.
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A Market Brief on organic farming shows that both the area farmed organically in the EU and the sales of organic products increased until 2020.
Some stakeholders and national authorities in the community are exploring ways to setup a pre-financing system to improve access to EU funds of beneficiaries, such as small rural municipalities, who cannot access these funds because they cannot advance payments. You have a good system in your country financed by state of private banks? Let us know by email EC-RURAL-VISION@ec.europa.eu .
On 5 December we celebrated World soil day. Missions are a new instrument under the EU research and innovation framework programme 2021-2027, Horizon Europe, and they aim at bringing concrete solutions to our greatest societal challenges. One of them is on soils and new calls for projects have just been published.
Further to the signing of the contract for the Rural Pact's support office, we (the Commission) will start sharing some tasks with the contractor. These would include some communication actions, for which the support office would need to have access to the Community list, which includes your data.
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This year’s theme for International Mountain Day was “Women move mountains”. To celebrate this day, Euromontana and the MOVING Horizon 2020 project published a booklet titled “Women move Europe’s mountains”, compiling testimonies from women either living in EU's mountain areas or working to make them more sustainable and future oriented.
