EURYO is launching its policy-brief series in December 2024  EURYO will launch its policy-brief series in December 2024. The series will be inaugurated with a opening note by EURYO’s chair Francisco Simões. This series will follow up closely the results of the COST Innovators Grant project that was recently awarded to EURYO, by exploring future trends affecting rural young people. The four policy-briefs will focus on topics related to social participation, education, employment and entrepreneurship with each of the Working…

SPREAD THE WORD! An on-going study co-led by EURYO members Francisco Simões (Iscte, Portugal) and Antonella Rocca (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) are co-leading a study on rural youth for the Youth Partnership, a think-tank from the Council of Europe and the European Commission on youth policies. The study has now opened a survey for rural young people. Please, help us to spread the word, sending the survey link to your colleagues and contact.

EURYO awarded a COST Innovators Grant (CIG) Following the COST Action Rural NEET Youth Network that paved the way for EURYO, our community was recently awarded a COST Innovators Grant (CIG).  A CIG is “an initiative that aims to build bridges between research and take-up at market, product, service, or societal level. CIGs aim to enhance the pace and success of research breakthroughs and as such, offers ending Actions the possibility to create additional impact during the year after the…

We are pleased to announce that a new paper supported under our call for collaborative publications has just been published in the journal Rural Sociology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ruso.12400 Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age: An Island Perspective İlkay Unay-Gailhard, Francisco Simões First published: 19 July 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12400 Abstract This study investigates the career construction paths of young farmers and aims to contribute to the literature on the “young farmer problem.” Of particular relevance is this study’s focus on the potential of…

We are pleased to announce that a second paper supported under our call for collaborative publications has just been published in the journal Social Sciences. The team was led by Paul Flynn and involved other members such as Vesela Radovic, Alen Mujcinovic, Štefan Bojnec and Francisco Simoes, as well as Veronica McCauley. Congratulations to all the team. Check the link below: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/8/362 Rapid Evidence Assessment Protocol for the Meta-Analysis of Initiatives, Interventions and Programmes That Target Rural NEETs by Paul Flynn 1,*,…

SPRING 2022 CALLS ARE NOW OPEN JOIN AND PARTCIPATE IN OUR CALLS If you are a member of our Action or not, you can join us to our SPRING’22 CALLS. You can see bellow the links to each call with all the information of how to participate. You will be able to publish papers, attend online and face-to-face conferences, visit some institution for a short research, organice events to disseminate our Action and more!

Our COST Action CA18213 will participate as speaker in the next Track-IN kick-off conference Tr@ck-IN project kick-off conference: Rural NEETs transition to the labour market: The role of Public Employment Services ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Cidade Universitária de Lisboa – Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal  Our colleagues from the EEA Grant Project “Track-IN: Public employment services tracking effectiness supporting rural NEETs” will participate have their first Kick-off conference next 4 and 5 of April 2022 in…

We have reach almost 40 publications… Have you read them? An important part of our COST Action about Rural NEET Youth is the publication of our research. Now we have reach almost 40 publications in different formats and journals. Have your read all of them? You can check them all out on our website in https://rnyobservatory.eu/web/publications

Our COST Action CA 18213 about Rural NEET Youth has just publiched a new Special Issue in Youth & Society journal This supplemental issue focuses on the challenges associated with European rural NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training) youth socio-economic inclusion. For NEETs, the transition from childhood to adulthood is both complex and fascinating, fraught with risks of marginalization and precarity. Such challenges have been compounded by assumptions regarding homogeneity evident in publications by the EU and the OECD…