In the first few months of the year, the Rural Resilience project has been busy attending events to maintain ties with existing partners and grow new connections, around issues making sense on both sides of the Rhine. Through the lens of multi-tiered rural policies, we are working with actors in territories across Europe to bring forward reality-based proposals, rooted in actions that are already underway on the ground. Here’s a quick overview of where we’ve been and who we’ve met. In the first phase of the Rural Resilience project, we connected with people all over France who are engaged in experiments in socio-ecological transition. In 2023-2024, the project zooms out from France to take in the wider Europe, with a special focus on Germany (the other big country in Europe). Through the lens of multi-tiered rural policies, we are working with actors in territories across Europe to bring forward reality-based proposals, rooted in actions that are already underway on the ground. One part of this is networking on the ground; the other is bridging the experiences of actors on the ground with policy developments in Brussels. In the first few months of the year we’ve been busy attending events to maintain ties with existing partners and grow new connections, around issues making sense on both sides of the Rhine. Here’s a quick overview of where we’ve been and who we’ve met. Report by the Rural Resilience project team.