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This international congress aimed at identifying and sharing the best communication experiences in rural development coming from EU Member States.
The aim is to promote the information campaigns that achieved their targets using new tools, such as web communication, social network, cross media and viral marketing, etc.
The event was able to initiate an EU network for the communication of the 50th CAP aniversary.
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International congress on forestry policies.
Considering the new importance held by the forest sector within the European Policy for Rural Development, the international seminar concerned:
1.what will be the destiny of the forests in Europe?
2.which are the orientations of rural development policies concerning the forest sector for the 2013-2020 programming period?
The two-day congress aimed at analysing, describing and getting acquainted with the actions provided for forests and for the forest sector by Rural Development, identifying strengthens, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and proposing ideas and suggestions for the present and future Common Program.
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International congress on policies for the development of mountain areas.
How to better program interventions in favor of mountain areas? How to benefit the 2014-2020 RDPs for promoting sustainable development, economic growth and new jobs? Which are the most successful examples of integrated mountain policies across Europe ? Supply chains, innovation, competitiveness, environment and communities: a review of the best projects from the European mountains.
These issues were at the centre stage during the European conference organized by the Italian Rural Network in collaboration with Euromontana. The objective of the event was mainly to inspire the elaboration of 2014-2020 development programmes impacting mountain areas, with an overall view on Common Strategic Framework (CSF) funds and a more specific focus on rural development fund as the event was organised by Italian National Rural Network.
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The workshop objective was to discuss the situation in implementing GAEC standards by the MemberStates, exchanging best practices in particular in the following topics: GAEC minimum requirements, controlling GAEC with remote sensing tools and environmental effects of some GAEC minimum requirements.
GAEC Workshop 2010 - Technical Report (EN) | Report on cross compilance implementation in Italy (EN)
2 Seminars 18th-19th April and 16th-17th May 2013 in Rome.
These seminars are designed to accompany the regional administrations involved in the drafting of the RDP 2014-2020, with particular reference to the following aspects:
* Definition of Leader areas;
* The role of the Leader, the thematic sub-programs and other "integrated approach" tools;
* Priorities, focus areas and measures for Leader;
* Financial resources and budget for LAG;
* Procedures and criteria for the selection of LAG;
* Monitoring and evaluation of the performance of Leader;
* Mechanisms for coordination between the authorities and bodies responsible for the implementation the RDPs.
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The meeting was devoted to the analysis of the possible uses of the evaluation, identification new modalities, r ecommendations to be implemented for the improvement of policies and programming.
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The event represented an opportunity for reflecting on the issue of the communication of evaluation results .
What is "effective communication"?
How to communicate more effectively the evaluation? With what kind of approaches, tools or methods?
When to communicate the results of the evaluation? Which results are more appropiated to be communicated?
W hich role stakeholders have for the communication of the evaluation results?
Which are the main factors? How to favour the dissemination of a shared evaluation culture ?
These are the main topics discussed during the panel discussion.
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During the meeting, experts of rural development policies, representatives of regional administrations, stakeholders and evaluators, shared experiences, challenges and opportunities for designing useful evaluation models.
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International seminar on post-2013 rural policies.
On 13th april 2010 in Rome was presented the document "The role for the post 2013 Rural Development Policy" referrring to the CAP policies and role after the Health Check reform.
The seminar was an occasion to discuss future policies with the participation of key speakers from EU Member States.
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National Conference with participation of EU Commission DG AGRI, Italian, French and Spanish Ministries of Agriculture about "The rural development in the next programming period 2014-2020".
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International event to support rural areas cooperation.
On June 20th, 2011 the Italian National Rural Network arranged in Rome the "Cooperaction Day", an International event in support of the cooperation between rural areas. The event represented an animation activity in the NRN Action Plan, aimed at facilitating the creation and consolidation of partnerships within the RDP measure 4.2.1 "Interterritorial and transnational cooperation".
The event consisted of:
- Thematic sessions for the presentation of cooperation project/ideas
- A Face to face meeting area
- The Cooperation offers corner
- The Cooperation show room: a place in which it was possible to display the results of cooperation between rural areas
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International congress on BRICS and EU rural development policies.
The Italian NRN, trying to satisfy and taking care of public and private stakeholders information needs in rural areas organized an international three-day meeting aimed at exchanging experiences and good practices and particularly focused on the evolution and new challenges of rural development policies in China, Brazil and the European Union.
This seminar was organized by the Italian National Rural Network together with the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, the College of Humanity and Development (COHD) from the Republic of China, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sol from Brazil and the University of Wageningen from Netherlands.
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The event analysed results concerning the complementarity and the development of synergies of rural development with the Financial Instrument for the Environment LIFE +
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A focus aimed at analyzing the new regulations and the possible effects of the use of financial instruments in rural development programmes 2014-2020, in the specific Italian context.
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The interaction of various institutional levels is important for the public policy success, especially for the Community programs which require a strong partnership between the EU, national, regional and local level.
For this reason the agricultural governance is a part of the National Rural Network activities.
Assessing governance also means to pay attention to local actors (associations, LAG, professional organizations, etc.), to their role and the relationships between them and with the institutional system at all levels.
The goal of this event was to examine some crucial "nodes" of the governance and to analyse how they can affect the results of policies.
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Experiences for Excellent and Innovative Best Practice Methods
Rural development contributions to Europa 2020: good ideas go fast
The winners of ESEMPI contest were awarded during the partnership event on 19th October 2011.
The event was an opportunity to describe and promote the contributions offered to Europa 2000 strategy by rural development.
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The debate was focused on following issues:
1. Improving the efficiency and of rural development programs
2. Encouraging the involvement among stakeholders in network actions to develop rural areas
3. Communicating rural development policy to general public and beneficiaries.
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Seminar aimed to promote debate about:
- Local participation on EU politics
- Priority and measures for local development in 2014-2020
- The role and tasks of LAGs
- Management of local development strategies
- How support local development.
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The meeting aimed to analyze the opportunities offered by the next programming to promote social farming and to develop it in social, urban and peri-urban areas.
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The event was organized by the Italian National Rural Network and aimed to discuss how promote equal opportunities in agriculture.
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The event organised by the Italian National Rural Network discussed the progress, difficulties and possible solutions for improving the implementation of rural development programs.
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On this occasion were presented results of national and european researches about enhancement of agriculture and rural areas sector.
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Rome, 13thMarch 2014
Exchange of experiences and good practices for the 2014-2020 programming period.
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International seminar on water and food security.
The workshop "Water and Food security: Food-Water and Food Supply Value Chains" was held at National Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rome, on 28 November 2013.
The event, organized by INEA in collaboration with the Foundation Simone Cesaretti, aimed to promote a discussion about saving water and reducing water footprint.
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The Italian NRN organised this event to discuss the most relevant issues of the CAP reform, the competitiveness of Italian food and the products quality, the natural resources and landscape conservation and the new opportunities for those who want to invest in agriculture.
The national seminar represented the launch of the Italian NRN.
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