Rural Voices

Rural Voices

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Rural Voices episodes

  • Rural Advocacy - Study Session 2025

    Recorded at the Rural Youth Europe Study Session 2025, this episode focusses on rural advocacy. What is it? How do we engage with decision makers? What are the priorities of rural youth? Listen to young people from across Europe sharing their thoughts, as well as tips on how you can start your advocacy journey. This episode was recorded at the European Youth Centre in Budapest in collaboration with the Council of Europe Youth Department. 

    31 min
  • S5 Episode 6 | The Rural Youth Europe Awards 2024

    In our final episode of 2024, Dan is joined by all the winners of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards, which aim to showcase the very best of rural youth across Europe. Hear from the team from Landjugend Schwoich who were responsible for this year’s Project of the Year - See Agriculture, Taste Agriculture, Experience Agriculture. Dan also chats to Teele Tõnisson from Estonian 4H, this year’s Inspirational Person of the Year, as well as Joanne Malone and Catriona Bourke, from Castlebar Macra, this year’s Inspirational Club of the Year.

    37 min
  • S5 Episode 5 | The European Rally 2024
    Care to stay. Dare to change. We are at the 2024 European Rally in Voore, Estonia, hosted by Estonian 4H. Dan chats to the Estonian prep team and participants throughout the course of the week, which aims to develop our entrepreneurial mindsets. We also discuss the week’s theme with Kerli Ats, CEO of Estonian Farmers Federation and Katrīne Leitāne, member ... Read More
    39 min
  • S5 Episode 4 | The COCOREADO Legacy
    In this final COCOREADO special of Rural Voices, Dan chats to COCOREADO ambassador Peter Schön from Austria about his COCOREADO experience, how it has impacted his farming business and his hopes for the future of the project. To find out more about the project and the food system innovator toolkit, go to the COCOREADO website: https://cocoreado.eu
    20 min
  • S5 Episode 3 | Rural Youth Work 101
    We are back at the European Youth Centre in Budapest for our 2024 Study Session entitled ‘Rural Youth Work 101’.  In collaboration with the Council of Europe Youth Department, we brought together 35 participants from across our member organisations to exchange ideas, experiences and knowledge in relation to resilient rural youth work. Dan chats to the participants, prep team members, Course Director Martin Siemen and Eva Kotnik, member of the Advisory Council of Youth at the Council of Europe.
    50 min
  • S5 Episode 2 | COCOREADO Final Conference
    We are at the final conference of the COCOREADO Project in Brussels which is an opportunity to present the results that the project has obtained over the last few years. In this episode, Dan chats to Project Coordinator Tessa Avermaete from KU Leuven, Mikelis Grivins from the Baltic Studies Centre, Marko Debeljak from the Jozef Stefan Instituteand Tomás da Cruz ... Read More
    31 min
  • S5 Episode 1 | COCOREADO Policy Workshop
    In this episode, Dan attends our policy workshop as part of the COCOREADO project. We have bought together policy makers from EU institutions as well as COCOREADO project partners and ambassadors, to discuss and highlight the work of COCOREADO, as well as unveil our new project policy brief: “Empowering young citizens involvement towards sustainable food systems”. Dan chats to Tomás da Cruz Machado, COCOREADO Project Manager, Ricard Ramon from DG Agri, Lisa Van Den Bossche from ILVO and Carlo Celis, a COCOREADO ambassador.
    28 min
  • S4 Episode 6 | The Autumn Seminar 2023
    Healthy youth workers - healthy youth. We are looking back at the 2023 Autumn Seminar hosted by Umbrella in Georgia. Dan chats to three members of the prep team - Doglas, Nikoloz and Anja - who take a look back at their highlights of the week, as well as the event’s theme of health as a human right. We also hear from participants from England, Slovenia, Wales, Austria, Norway and Northern Ireland.
    21 min
  • S4 Episode 5 | The Rural Youth Europe Awards 2023
    As 2023 comes to an end, we’re taking a look back over the past year and chatting to the winners of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards! Our annual awards aim to showcase the very best of our member organisations. In this episode, Dan chats to Linda, Roberts and Kitija from Latvian 4H who were involved in ‘Give Way to Youth’, which won this year’s ‘Project of the Year’. Dan also chats to Sian Healey from Pontfaen Young Farmers in Wales, this year’s ‘Inspirational Club of the Year’, as well as Ragnhild Eriksen from Norwegian Rural Youth who won this year’s ‘Inspirational Person of the Year’.
    35 min
  • S4 Episode 4 | The European Rally 2023
    Grow. Eat. Repeat. We are at the 2023 European Rally in Carinthia, Austria, for our biggest event of the year. Dan chats to the prep team and participants throughout the course of the week, which involves plenty of intercultural exchange, as well as sessions about the circular economy of food. We’re also joined by a couple of experts including Johanna Michenthaler who talks about meat consumption and Lydia Lienhart, an expert on food waste. Make sure you also take a look at Lydia’s YouTube (https://youtube.com/@lydiaexplains?si=9LdWIXfNR2lJJsc1) and Instagram (@lydiaexplains).
    54 min

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RYE is a non-governmental umbrella organisation, promoting and activating rural youth. In this podcast we raise awareness about topics that concern rural youth in Europe and give rural youth and…