The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas. An important question related to...

The topic of EURORURAL '08 conference includes wide scale of issues: 1. Rural landscapes, ecology, landscape planning 2. Rural settlement, small towns as centres of rural micro-regions 3. Rural sociology and demography, quality of rural life 4. Rural economy, role of agriculture, tourism and...

The theme of this years conference is “Regions: The Dilemmas of Integration and Competition?” Conference Parallel Workshop Themes A) European Regional Policy B) Regions: hubs of global knowledge C) Labour Market Dynamics, Human Capital and Migration D) Rural Economic Development -...

The objective of the Conference is to introduce foreign and Czech institutions which deal with a variety of rural issues, and to enable the participants to discuss and exchange experience at three levels (international, national and local). Topics: - Social change and restructuring in rural...