Brussels Conference 2024 – Program

Rural young people: Alternative futures for more hopeful rural societies

(Final conference of the COST Action Rural NEET Youth Network)

Venue:

European Committee of Regions
Batiment Jacques Delors, Rue Belliard 99/101, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium

12th March 2024

Event moderator: Mariano Soler (University of Málaga, Spain; Communication officer of the Rural NEET Youth Network)

Time What
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10.00-10.30 Opening ceremony
Radim Sršeň | European Committee of Regions (NAT Commission)
Ronald de Bruin | Director of the COST Association
Maria das Dores Guerreiro | Iscte, vice-rector for internationalization
Francisco Simões | Chair of the Rural NEET Youth Network, Iscte, Portugal
10.30 –11:20 Young people’s future in the peripheries of Europe: What’s next?
Keynote speakers
Rosario Scandurra | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Sofia Marques da Silva | University of Porto, Portugal
11:20-11:45 Coffee-break
11.45-12.45   Education & Employment: Contributions from the Rural NEET Youth Network
Roundtable
Heidi Paabort | Ministry on Economic Affairs and Communications and University of Tartu, Estonia
Claudia Petrescu | Research Institute for Quality of Life; University of Bucharest, Romania
Comment:
Beatrice Rinaldi | DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission
12.45-14.00 Lunch (lunch break includes the video session “Members voice” starting at 13.30
14.00-15.00 Social Inclusion & Sustainability: Contributions from the Rural NEET Youth Network
Roundtable
Maria Fernandes-Jesus | University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Alen Mujcinovic | University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Comment:
Elena Marta | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano/Brescia
15.00-16.00 Becoming NEETer: Young people as the next rural resource
Roundtable co-organized with the EU Rural Pact
Wallis Vandebrock-Goellen | DG Regio, European Commission
Anastasia Costantini | Diesis Network Spyros Papadatos | Rural Youth Europe
16.00-16.20 Coffee-break
16.20-17.00 Wrap-up: The contribution from the European Rural Youth Observatory for the future of rural young people Oral presentation & Comment
Francisco Simões | Chair of the Rural NEET Youth Network, Iscte, Portugal
Comment:
Charalampos Papaioannou | DG EAC, European Commission

 

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