A recent ENRD workshop (16 April 2018 – Saaremaa, Estonia) discussed rural challenges and opportunities such as climate change and technological advances, and constructed different visions for the future of northern rural areas.

The event – co-organised by the ENRD Contact Point and the Estonian, Swedish and Finnish Rural Network support units – saw an exchange on the national application of their respective Rural Development Programmes (RDPs). Specific topics included ‘smart villages’, tourism, entrepreneurship and urban-rural connections, and their related networking activities.