17 December 2018
The first event in the Rural Conversations Series was held in NUIG on 8 November. The report and podcast from the event are now available.
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Rural Conversations was a series of three stakeholder roundtable events produced in collaboration with the Department of Rural and Community Development. The series provided a discussion forum for rural development stakeholders and took place in three cluster regions: the west, the north-east and the south-east. The three separate themes discussed at the individual cluster venues were economic development, social cohesion, and sustainable rural communities.
Each conversation stimulated suggestions from a variety of rural, regional and national stakeholders attending the conversations. Each event was audio recorded a rapporteur’s report was published with the findings and suggestion which will be used to help inform rural policy. Podcasts and reports for the individual conversations are available via the links below. The collated reports are available here.
The Series Podcasts and Reports
06 March 2019
Rural Conversation No. 2: ‘Enhancing social cohesion among communities in rural Ireland’, the second in the series was held on 28 February 2019 in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT). The report and podcast from the event are now available.
17 April 2019
The final in the series of three Rural Conversations was held on Thursday, 4 April 2019 and hosted in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). The report and podcast from this event are now available.