Welcome and introductions
The ERP Co-Iniating Partners:
- Mr. Staffan Nilsson, President of European Rural Community Alliance – ERCA and ERP Steering Group
- Mr. Āris Ādlers, President of Partnership for Rural Europe – PREPARE
- Mr. Maria JoãoBotelho, President of European LEADER Association for Rural Development – ELARD
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Opening speech:
- Mr. Adrián Barbón Rodríguez, President of the Government of the Principality of Asturias
Introduction of the 4th ERP
- ‘The ERP – Who we are and what we have done since the 3rd ERP’. Mr. Petri Rinne, European Rural Community Alliance – ERCA and ERP Steering Group
10:05 – 11:15 / Setting the context
- ‘EU rural policy and rural communities – The future post 2020’. Mr. Mihail Dumitru, Deputy Director-General at Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Comission