The 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists, entitled 'Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems', organised by the International Association of Agricultural Economists, was held in New Delhi from 2-7.08.2024, attended by nearly 2,000 delegates from academic units, organisations and government entities involved in rural and agricultural development.
During the Congress, representatives of ERDN Paweł Chmieliński, Zbigniew Floriańczyk and Barbara Wieliczko took partin the organised symposium entitled 'Consequences of the Russian Invasion of Ukrainian for the World Agricultural Markets and the EU Food System: Current State and the Future Implications in the Context of Potential Accession of Ukraine to the EU' - Paweł Chmielinski and Zbigniew Floriańczyk as the speakers and Barbara Wieliczko as the discussant of the session. The symposium was attended by a representative of IAFE NRI (an institutional member of the ERDN) Prof. Szczepan Figiel (symposium chairman), as well as Dr Taras Gagalyuk of the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) and Prof. Hrabrin Bachev of the Institute of Agricultural Economics-Sofia (an institutional member of the ERDN), as speakers. The symposium was organised under the auspices and with the support of the European Rural Development Network.
The session entitled Linking Agri-Food Trade to Sustainable Development
Goals: Evidence from the Trade4SD - EU Horizon 2020 Project was actively attended by prof. Katarzyna Zawalińska from the Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk - IRWiR PAN (an institutional member of the ERDN).
The congress was an opportunity to exchange views and knowledge, but also to establish valuable contacts with scientists from different parts of the world.
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GRANULAR consortium gathered on 27th and 28th June in Pisa for a reflexive workshop to discuss the activities of the living labs established within the project and to debate on the potential activities of the replication labs to be created within the task lead by the European Rural Development Network.
The aim of the project is to generate novel datasets and methods to better understand the characteristics and dynamics of rural areas. It also aims to help rural actors grasp the specificities and diversity of their territories and identify main challenges and design tailored place-based policies to address those challenges.
In the project ERDN is represented by the Polish team – Pawel Chmielinski, Aleksandra Pawlowska and Barbara Wieliczko responsible for the replication labs as well as the teams from Politechnika Koszalińska leading the Polish living lab in Zachodniopomorskie and the teams from Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Economics and Rural Development, LT – lead by Zivile Gedminaite and the IAE Romanian Academy, RO – lead by Monica Mihaela Tudor. Lithuanian and Romanian teams are to establish replication labs that are responsible for testing the results of the GRANULAR project.
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ERDN is taking part in the kick-off meeting of a new Horizon Europe #SOILSCAPE project conducted by AFES - Association Française pour l'Etude du Sol.
We are responsible for WP5 - "Assess the impacts and ensure sustainability of the actions". Barbara Wielczko was presenting our organisation and other members of ERDN team in this project: Katarzyna Gizińska and Paweł Chmieliński.
The main goal of the project is to promote soil preservation across Europe and beyond. SoilScape objectives include understanding human-soil relations, building a network of more than 120 relevant actors in 8 countries, onboarding at least 320 individuals from society, providing 1,850,000€ as financal support to multi-actor platforms, schools, artists and institutions, distributing 375,000€ as awards, organising a soil festival, 80 soil literacy certifications to inspiring initiatives and reaching international scale through UNESCO and Coalition of Action for Soil Mission.
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Another meeting of the ESIRA Project consortium took place on Wednesday. We are at the stage of writing two Polish regional reports in the area of MAP Zachodniopomorskie and MAP Leski-Bieszczadzki on social exclusion and social economy - we will look at interesting initiatives and good practices.📌 This week, ESIRA Project partners came together online for a dynamic meeting with ambitious plans for the months ahead. The meeting was productive, focusing on evaluating progress and future initiatives.
👉 To date, the ESIRA team has successfully established three Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs), setting the stage for new collaborative actions.
📅 Next months promise even more excitement with the anticipated launch of new MAPs and the continuation of vital activities on the existing ones. These MAPs are not just a cornerstone, but a catalyst for stakeholder collaboration and the driving force behind our project’s goals!
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On 17 April, the activities of multi-actor platform MAP Leski-Bieszczadzki (Poland) were launched at a polish kick-off meeting of the ESIRA Project. ERDN is one of the project partners and is responsible for the creation of two multi-actor platforms in Poland. The meeting was facilitated by ERDN researcher Katarzyna Gizińska. Representatives of different sectors: business, NGOs, LAG and local government sat at one table. The topic of discussion was social exclusion and social economy - their different aspects in the Leski and Bieszczady poviats.
The meeting was organised at Zagroda Magija Bieszczady in Orelec - a place which combines love for the region's traditions and wooden architecture, surrounded by forest and meadows, where old Podkarpackie cottages have gained a second life here and have been saved from oblivion, and now are used as agrotourism and a home for creative work.
ESIRA is a development project supported by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe program, aimed at improving the socio-economic conditions of the population in rural areas. The ESIRA consortium consists of 15 organizations from 8 European countries, including universities, expert associations, and non-governmental organizations, creating a network of academic knowledge and practical expertise at the local level.
The ESIRA project is focused on implementing innovative socio-economic initiatives, with a focus on developing local social networks in rural communities and improving the economic situation of marginalized groups.
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