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RYE is a non-governmental umbrella organisation, promoting and activating rural youth. In this podcast we raise awareness about topics that concern rural youth in Europe and give rural youth and their experience a voice.
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S7E3 Powering Change: Young People Leading the Rural Energy Transition
In this episode of Rural Voices, we return to the Powering Change – Empowering Rural Youth for Energy Communities project to explore what renewable energy looks like in practice across rural…
S7E2 The voices shaping Europe’s future | Rural Youth Forward Conference 2026
In this episode we’re taking you back to the first ever European Rural Youth Forward Conference. Earlier this year, around 100 rural youth leaders and European policy-makers gathered in Piloña,…
S7E1 From Scroll to Action: Changing the Narrative
What happens when rural youth take control of their own stories? Recorded during our 2026 Study Session on media literacy, this episode brings together voices from across Europe to challenge…
S6E6 Powering Change: Getting started with Rural Energy Communities
In this episode, part of our Powering Change: Empowering Rural Youth for Energy Communities project, we’re in Brussels with the Rural Youth Europe (RYE) Policy Committee talking all about the power…
S6E5 Rural Youth Europe Awards 2025
It’s our last episode of 2025 and we are catching up with all the winners of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards. Dan chats to Jillian Kennedy from the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs…
S6E4 The building blocks of a rural youth organisation - Autumn Seminar 2025
In this episode we’re in Latvia for the Autumn Seminar 2025. Hosted by Latvian 4H, with support from Latvian Young Farmers, this seminar brought together rural youth leaders from across Europe. This…
S6E3 Rural youth participation in policy-making
As part of the ‘Rural Youth Forward’ project, in this episode we are delving into our research on the different realities and trends on rural youth participation in policy-making across Europe. Dan…
S6E2 Finding your why - European Rally 2025
We’re at the 2025 European Rally in Slovenia. Hosted by our member organisation ZSPM - the Slovenian Rural Youth Association - this year’s rally is all about empowering young people for active…
S6E1 Rural Advocacy - Study Session 2025
Recorded at the Rural Youth Europe Study Session 2025, this episode focusses on rural advocacy. What is it? How do we engage with decision makers? What are the priorities of rural youth? Listen to…
S5 Episode 6 | The Rural Youth Europe Awards 2024
In our final episode of 2024, Dan is joined by all the winners of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards, which aim to showcase the very best of rural youth across Europe. Hear from the team from…
S5 Episode 5 | The European Rally 2024
Care to stay. Dare to change. We are at the 2024 European Rally in Voore, Estonia, hosted by Estonian 4H. Dan chats to the Estonian prep team and participants throughout the course of the week, which…
S5 Episode 4 | The COCOREADO Legacy
In this final COCOREADO special of Rural Voices, Dan chats to COCOREADO ambassador Peter Schön from Austria about his COCOREADO experience, how it has impacted his farming business and his hopes for…
S5 Episode 3 | Rural Youth Work 101
We are back at the European Youth Centre in Budapest for our 2024 Study Session entitled ‘Rural Youth Work 101’. In collaboration with the Council of Europe Youth Department, we brought together 35…
S5 Episode 2 | COCOREADO Final Conference
We are at the final conference of the COCOREADO Project in Brussels which is an opportunity to present the results that the project has obtained over the last few years. In this episode, Dan chats to…
S5 Episode 1 | COCOREADO Policy Workshop
In this episode, Dan attends our policy workshop as part of the COCOREADO project. We have bought together policy makers from EU institutions as well as COCOREADO project partners and ambassadors, to…
S4 Episode 6 | The Autumn Seminar 2023
Healthy youth workers - healthy youth. We are looking back at the 2023 Autumn Seminar hosted by Umbrella in Georgia. Dan chats to three members of the prep team - Doglas, Nikoloz and Anja - who take…
S4 Episode 5 | The Rural Youth Europe Awards 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, we’re taking a look back over the past year and chatting to the winners of this year’s Rural Youth Europe Awards! Our annual awards aim to showcase the very best of our…
S4 Episode 4 | The European Rally 2023
Grow. Eat. Repeat. We are at the 2023 European Rally in Carinthia, Austria, for our biggest event of the year. Dan chats to the prep team and participants throughout the course of the week, which…
S4 Episode 3 | Preparing for the European Rally 2023
In this episode Dan chats to Florian Lassnig and Daniela Hinteregger from Landjugend Österreich about this year’s European Rally in Austria. With just two weeks to go before the rally bell will be…
S4 Episode 2 | COCOREADO Training 3
We are in Riga for the third COCOREADO ambassador training! This episode is co-hosted by the ambassadors and they talk about how they are ‘campaigning for change’ in the context of the COCOREADO…
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Rural Voices has published 44 episodes since April 2020, covering topics in Documentary, Places & Travel.
Rural Voices is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 35m.
