SILVER SMEs aims to identify and implement regional policies that promote the growth of SMEs by exploiting the opportunities offered by the Silver Economy in rural and mountain areas.
Demography
Rural brain drain: how can the Cohesion Policy help reverse the trend?
Co-organised with the European Parliament's RUMRA intergroup, this European Year of Youth event aims to explore the factors behind the brain drain and how the Cohesion Policy
Ageing in rural Europe: opportunities for local economies
Organised in the framework of the SILVER SMEs project, this event aims to explore the challenges of ageing in rural and mountainous areas and to discover how partners have successfully boosted the development of the Silver Economy in response to these challenges.
Funding mobile services in ageing villages to improve quality of life for older adults
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The rural revitalisation platform is out!
The platform gathers information and resources for rural communities facing population loss, ageing and demographic decline. A wide range of stakeholders are invited to use the platform, from regional and local authorities to Local Action Groups, national CAP networks and any rural stakeholders working to revitalise their territory.
Euromontana welcomes the opinion of the European Committee of the Regions on harnessing talent in Europe’s regions
Tailor-made policies are needed to tackle brain drain and depopulation, stressed the European Committee of the Regions in a recent opinion adopted on 16 March.
Rural Europe can become more resilient to demographic change say EU and regional representatives at SILVER SMEs closing conference
Rural and mountain areas can find solutions to demographic change and ageing. This was the main message of the final conference of the SILVER SMEs project, held in Brussels on 21 February.
The EU published its new Report on the Impact of Demographic Change
Rural Europe is more affected by demographic change. This is the message shared by the European Commission in its “Report on the impact of demographic change – in a changing environment”.
EU Commission proposes support to regions facing a talent development trap
The European Commission presented its Communication on “Harnessing talent in Europe’s regions”. Released on 17 January, the text proposes measures to address the lack of workforce and skilled employees, a trend that is affecting many mountainous regions that are ageing and depopulating.