Euromontana is organising the mid-term conference of its Interreg Europe project SILVER SMEs. The conference will explore how European and regional policies can cope with the challenges of ageing in rural regions.
Demography
SILVER SMEs
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.
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.
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.
Opti’soins: a mobile maternity unit for mountain women
The “Opti’soins” initiative aims to address these inequalities and better identify the need for mobile care. 110 pregnant women in 4 mountain areas benefit from this new medical assistance.
Funding mobile services in ageing villages to improve quality of life for older adults
To encourage companies in engaging in the Silver Economy sector in ageing mountain villages, a call was launched to support the development of new mobile goods and services useful for senior citizens in the market.
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.