Date of the meeting: June 13 – 16, 2016

Venue: Poland, Sucha Beskidzka

Participants of the meeting:
representatives of organizations from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hungary, and Poland

 

Program of the meeting:

  • Formal and organizational issues regarding the APURE the Association for the Development of Regions.

  • Directions of activity and organization development.

  • Perspectives and possibilities of implementing joint projects financed under EU development programs.

  • Raising funds for the development of organizations supporting rural areas.

  • The role of  APURE the Association for the Development of Regions in the organization of European sessions of the University of Rural Development.

  • Preparation and discussion of the Association's development strategy for the coming years.

  • Promotion of the Association in Europe, with particular emphasis on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

  • Analysis and presentation of good practices related to the creation of a tourism product – a case study on the example of a thematic product in rural areas: Lesser Poland village that smells of herbs – visit to an agritourism farm.

  • Analysis of the possibility of obtaining grants from the European Commission.

  • Analysis of the possibility of obtaining grants from the resources of the Visegrad Group.

  • Approval of the organization of the scientific conference "Ecological footprint in Central Europe and the United States. Research status, forecasts, recommendations "; November 2016.

  • Planning the meeting of APURE members of the Association for the Development of Regions in the framework of the above conference to clarify the details of the organization of the European University of Rural Affairs in 2017.