Mid-term conference – Ruralization EU

RURALIZATION 2021 CONFERENCE

#RURALIZATIONConference2021

Mid-term Conference - Day 1

Mid-term Conference - Day 2

Can you imagine which photo was the most voted of the exhibition? This was announced during the conference!

The RURALIZATION Photo Exhibition is over, but you can see all rural photos sent by people from all over Europe! In addition to the most voted photo by the RURALIZATION project consortium, and due to the numerous photos sent, the second most voted photo by the public was also rewarded.

Both the most voted photo by the RURALIZATION project consortium and the most voted photo by the public were announced during the RURALIZATION Mid-term Conference last 8 and 9 November 2021.

SEE WINNING PHOTOS

The RURALIZATION consortium is proud to invite you to our Mid-term Conference on November 8^th and 9^th 2021, dedicated to the H2020 Ruralization project results and future projections. Within the course of an on-site and virtual meeting with experts and stakeholders, the debate will be developed across three discussion rooms: rural research, rural generations and policy-making for rural areas. We would like to invite you to participate in the discussion room of your preference, as well as to visit the virtual exposition where the best rural photos submitted to our Photo Exhibition will be displayed.

We would like to invite you to participate in the discussion room of your preference. The rural research session will identify key questions and begin to map out ways forward for rural research and policy that can support realisation of ruralisation and its regenerative outcomes for rural areas. RURALIZATION is focused on assessing and developing novel instruments, strategies and policies for rural regeneration and generational renewal. Its particular focus is on rural foresight analysis, the future dreams of rural youth, facilitating rural newcomers, farm succession, new entrants into farming and access to farmland.

These ideas would be further developed during the rural generation’s session, providing examples in relation to some of these specific areas, but also concentrate on more overarching questions around how the ruralisation process can be supported. It will also focus particularly on the central theme underpinning this conference, the question of bridging the EU level with local level practices.

The conference will count with the participation of European Commission’s representatives who will present the long-term vision for the EU's rural areas. The final session of the conference will aim at deriving concrete policy conclusions from the project findings as well as communicating and discussing them with policy makers. Therefore, the RURALIZATION mid-term conference is the moment to resume the project findings about rural trends, access to land and rural generations.

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Meeting venue

Centre for Social Sciences (Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont)

Address: H-1097. Budapest, Tóth Kálmán Street 4.

Website: https://tk.hu/en

Airport

In order to get from Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport to Budapest and the accommodation, the following options are available:

Taxi: Travel time takes up to 30-35 minutes, the fee could be around 6.500-8.000 Hungarian Forints (18-22 EUR).

Airport shuttle: If there are more people who booked the same accommodation, there is a possibility to book an airport shuttle: https://www.minibud.hu/booking

Public transport: There is an online website as well as an application you can use to get around Budapest called BKK Futár. For more information, see: https://bkk.hu/en/

For more information on how to get from and to the Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport, see: https://www.bud.hu/en/passengers/transport/public_transportation/budapest_public_transportation

An airport bus is operated (100E) with a specific airport ticket valid for one ride (900 HUF / 2,5 EUR). In order to access other types of public transport, there is a possibility to buy

· a 24-hour Budapest travelcard for 1650 Hungarian forints (4,6 EUR) or

· a 72-hour Budapest travelcard for 4150 Hungarian Forints (11,6 EUR).

Weather
In November in Budapest the temperature can range from 1°C to 12°C. Depending on the day, it can rain or snow as well, so we advise participants to prepare for that – especially considering the site visit which will take place in the region of Mór.

Currency
Hungary uses Hungarian Forints (sign: Ft, code: HUF). The exchange rate is 1.00 Euro = ~360 Hungarian Forints (as of 8 October 2021)

Voltage & Outlets
Similarly to other part of Europe, in Hungary the power plugs and sockets are of type C and F. The standard voltage is 230 V and the standard frequency is 50 Hz.

COVID-19 testing centres
The price of the COVID-19 test is regulated at 19.500 HUF (54 EUR).

• At the airport [link] - please consider that it may take too much time before your flight.

• Hivatalos Covidteszt or Sürgős Covidteszt (operated by the same company) [link] - they guarantee transport from the Airport to Budapest, not the other way around. Address: 1093 Budapest, Czuczor u.

• Whitelab (Whitelab Lurdy) [link] Address: 1097 Budapest, Könyves Kálmán krt. 12-14

The last two centres have the option to pre-book an appointment and have more central testing centres as well, like Astoria.

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DAY 1 Mid-term Conference

Monday, 8th November 2021
11:30 – 12:30	Lunch
12:30 – 12:45	Welcome & Introduction to RURALIZATION	Willem Korthals Altes (TU Delft)

	DISCUSSION ROOM 1: RURAL RESEARCH
12:45 – 13:15	Framework for research and innovation Key questions and potential ways forward towards ruralization	Maura Farrell, Aisling Murtagh and Louise Weir (NUIG) (20 min presentation + 10min discussions)
13:15 – 13:45	Foresight analysis	Tuomas Kuhmonen (UTU) (20 min presentation + 10 min discussions)
13:45 – 14:15	EU rural initiatives and insights from research projects to promote ruralization PoliRural SHERPA RURITAGE NEWBIE DESIRA MOVING Project	Flash project presentations (5 min each): Antoni Oliva (22 sistema) Elodie Salle (Ecorys) Claudia De Luca (University of Bologna) Lee-Ann Sutherland (ILUSC) Gianluca Brunori (University of Pisa) Mar Delgado and Sherman Farhad (University of Córdoba)
14:15 – 14:40	Round table discussion: - What specific opportunities can support new generations (e.g. newcomers, young people, migrants, new entrants into farming) in rural areas? - What are the barriers rural research has identified inhibiting the realisation of these opportunities? - What are the research gaps we need to address to help realise these opportunities?	Round table discussion + Q&A time (25 min)

14:40 – 15:00	Break
15:00 – 18:00	Site visit to a rural case study	Bozóky Winery - Wine Region of Mór
18:00	Consortium dinner	Öreg Prés Butikhotel - Inn to the Old Wine Press

DAY 2 Mid-term Conference

Tuesday, 9^th November 2021
08.30 – 09:00	Start Meeting (Coffee)
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome	Willem Korthals Altes (TU Delft)

	DISCUSSION ROOM 2: RURAL GENERATIONS
09:15 – 10:00	Rural newcomers and new entrants into farming	Silvia Sivini and Annamaria Vitale (UNICAL), Imre Kovách (UNIDEB), Megyesi Boldizsár (MTA TK), Maura Farrell, Aisling Murtagh and Louise Weir (NUIG) (30 min presentation + 15 min discussions)
10:00 – 10:10	RURALIZATION Photo Exhibition	Michelle Perello (Consulta Europa)
10:10 – 10:30	Listening to rural generations - Which barriers are faced by new entrants, successors, and rural newcomers? - How policy and institutional support can overcome those barriers? - How can we encourage generation renewal, young people to stay, newcomers to settle?	Blandine Camus (Euromontana) Lidia Díaz (Spanish Association Against Depopulation) Francisco Simões (Rural NEET Youth Network)
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee break

	DISCUSSION ROOM 3: POLICY-MAKING
10:45 – 11:30	Land innovations in the EU context: working on the field to overturn dominant land trends and paradigms	Willem Korthals Altes (TU Delft), William Loveluck (Terre De Liens), Kim Graham and Kate Swade (Shared Assets) (30 min presentation + 15 min discussions)
11:30 – 11:45	Policy design and assessment Outline of Work Package and methodology First draft of “the RURALIZATION process”	Titus Bahner, Hans-Albrecht Wiehler and Ciane Goulart (Kulturland) (10 min pres. + 5 min discussions)
11:45 – 12:10	A long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas	Alexia Rouby (Policy Officer DG AGRI)
12:10 - 12:30	Territorial angle of rural development and role of Cohesion Policy	Wallis Goelen (Adviser to DG REGIO Deputy Director General)
12:30 – 13:00	Panel Discussion: How can different policy levels support the process of RURALIZATION? How can we jointly elaborate effective strategies? How do we valorize RURALIZATION results for practitioners?	Willem Korthals Altes (TU Delft) + TDL + KulturLand + invited policy makers and stakeholders (N.N.): - Enrique Nieto (ENRD) - Andrew Forde (Irish Government) - Julio Bernardos (Government of the Canary Islands) - Elena Di Bella (Metropolitan City of Turin, Eurocities)
13:00 – 14:00	Closing the mid-term conference / Lunch

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DISCUSSION ROOM 1: RURAL RESEARCH

Willem Korthals Altes H2020 RURALIZATION coordinator and full professor of Land development Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Maura Farrell Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Galway

Aisling Murtagh Postdoctoral Researcher on the RURALIZATION project at NUI Galway National University of Ireland, Galway

Louise Weir Researcher National University of Ireland, Galway

Tuomas Kuhmonen Research director University of Turku

EU rural initiatives and research projects

Mar Delgado Coordinator of the MOVING Project University of Córdoba

Sherman Farhad Scientific Coordinator of the MOVING Project University of Córdoba

Antoni Oliva Researcher PoliRural project

Elodie Salle SHERPA project manager Ecorys

Claudia De Luca Post-Doc Research Fellow University of Bologna – RURITAGE Coordination Team

Lee-Ann Sutherland Director of International Land Use Study Centre NEWBIE

Gianluca Brunori Professor and DESIRA project coordinator University of Pisa

DISCUSSION ROOM 2: RURAL GENERATIONS

Silvia Sivini Researcher University of Calabria

Annamaria Vitale Researcher University of Calabria

Imre Kovách Professor Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Megyesi Boldizsár Researcher Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Aisling Murtagh Postdoctoral Researcher on the RURALIZATION project at NUI Galway National University of Ireland, Galway

Maura Farrell Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Galway

Louise Weir Researcher National University of Ireland, Galway

Michelle Perello CEO and researcher Consulta Europa Projects & Innovation

Listening to rural generations

Blandine Camus Communication & Policy Officer Euromontana

Lidia Díaz President Spanish Association Against Depopulation

Francisco Simões Chair and Assistant Researcher Cost Action "Rural NEET Youth Network"

DISCUSSION ROOM 3: POLICY-MAKING

Willem Korthals Altes H2020 RURALIZATION coordinator and full professor of Land development Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

William Loveluck Research officer Terre de Liens' national federation

Kim Graham Research Coordinator Shared Assets UK

Kate Swade Co-Executive Director Shared Assets UK

Titus Bahner Founder, Managing Director Kulturland eG

Hans-Albrecht Wiehler Scientific Employee Kulturland eG

Ciane Goulart Project collaborator Kulturland eG

A long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas and panel discussion

Alexia Rouby Research Programme Officer DG Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission

Wallis VANDEBROCK-GOELEN Head of the REGIO Project Group on the Long Term Vision for Rural Areas Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO)

Other policy-makers and stakeholders

Andrew Forde Head of Rural Strategy & Social Enterprise Department of Rural & Community Development, Irish Government

Julio Bernardos Agricultural Engineer Productive forests promoter in collaboration with the Government of the Canary Islands

Elena Di Bella Director of Mountain and Rural Development Service Metropolitan City of Turin, Eurocities

Enrique Nieto Policy Analyst European Network for Rural Development (ENRD)

Project outcomes

The RURALIZATION Twitter Conference 2021 presentations will consist of up to five tweets (280 characters) on your twitter account related to topics that contribute to policy formulation and analysis in the rural context. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with tweeted questions. Each presenter uses the hashtag #RuralizationConference2021 and the audience simply follow the hashtag to engage with presenters (you can use one or more discussion rooms hashtags too). The purpose of the Twitter conference is to enhance knowledge mobilization on rural policy research and developing novel instruments and strategies for rural regeneration and generational renewal. It will also focus particularly on the central theme underpinning this conference, the question of bridging the EU level with local level practices.

Structure of the RURALIZATION Conference 2021

The RURALIATION conference will be focused on 3 discussion rooms: rural research, rural generations and policy-making. We would like to invite you to participate in the virtual discussion room of your preference. Therefore, you will join any of them by tweeting information related to rural topics you are keen on, or you are researching about. You can also send direct questions to the conference speakers, so they can answer them during the RURALIZATION Conference on November 8^th and 9^th.

Discussion room 1: #RuralResearch

This discussion room will identify key questions and begin to map out ways forward for rural research and policy that can support realisation of ruralisation and its regenerative outcomes for rural areas. RURALIZATION is focused on assessing and developing novel instruments, strategies and policies for rural regeneration and generational renewal. Your Twitter thread presentation will provide examples in relation to some of these specific areas, but also concentrate on more overarching questions around how the ruralisation process can be supported. You may participate in the RURALIZATION Twitter Conference by answering the following questions on your Twitter publication:

- What specific opportunities can support new generations (e.g. newcomers, young people, migrants, new entrants to farming) in rural areas?

- What are the barriers rural research has identified inhibiting the realisation of these opportunities?

- What are the research gaps we need to address to help realise these opportunities?

Discussion room 2: #RuralGenerations

These ideas would be further developed during the rural generation’s session, with a particular focus is on rural foresight analysis, the future dreams of rural youth, facilitating rural newcomers, farm succession, new entrants into farming and access to farmland. If you do not know what your publication can be about, answer the following questions on your twitter thread:

- How can we help to structure rural future and policy planning at local grassroots, national or EU level?

- How can the ruralisation process be supported by youth in Europe?

- How can we contribute to the question of bridging the EU level with local level practices?

- How can we help facilitating access to land to rural newcomers, farm successors and new entrants into farming?

You may also tweet about the rural photos submitted during our RURALIZATION Photo Exhibition, the voting process will be open until November 5^th.

Discussion room 3: #PolicyMaking

The conference will also count with the participation of European Commission’s representatives who will present the long-term vision for the EU's rural areas. The final session of the conference will aim at deriving concrete policy conclusions from the project findings as well as communicating and discussing them with policy makers. Therefore, the RURALIZATION mid-term conference is the moment to resume the project findings about rural trends, access to land and rural generations. Some of the following questions will be raised during the panel discussion that will take place at the end of this session:

- How can different policy levels support the process of RURALIATION?

- How can we jointly elaborate effective strategies?

- How do we valorize RURALIZATION results for practitioners?

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