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09:00 Welcome and Opening of the Conference
09:15 Keynote Lecture 1
“Scenario thinking and regional development“
Professor Toni Ahlqvist, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland
10:00–11:30 Parallel Sessions 1 and 2
Parallel session 1: Rural communities and local agency
- Growing up in rural ecological communities in Hungary
Judit Farkas; University of Pécs, Hungary - Ground Tests: Is this a matter of design? Place based research in context of Jhabua
Shafali Jain; NID Ford Foundation, Shivganga, Jhabua, India - Rural past for rural future – Building agency and community with local knowledge: Participatory action research in a Hungarian village
Pál Géza Balogh & Anna Borbála Hernádi; Department of European Ethnology – Cultural Anthropology, University of Pecs, Hungary
Parallel session 2: Landscapes and heritage
- Post epidemic territories: Aspirations and futurability in Salento after Xylella
Chiara Vacirca; Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Italy - The Reuse of Religious Buildings: Socio-economic and symbolic aspects
Gilda Catalano; University of Calabria, Italy - What do landscapes say?
Yue Mao, Rachel Bacon, Ksenia Kopalova, Nataly Lakhtina, Maria Malkova, Vera Mennens, Radha Smith, Naomi van Dijck & Polina Veidenbakh, Nomaos research collective, The Netherlands
11:30 Lunch break
12:00 Keynote Lecture 2
“Building a shared EU rural vision for highly diverse rural areas“
Research Programme Officer Alexia Rouby, European Commission
12:45–14:15 Plenary Session: The Youth
- Imagining rural futures: Dreams of young Dutch people in urban and rural areas
Maarten Koreman; TU Delft, The Netherlands - Young people’s thoughts and expectations related to place based future images
Katariina Heikkilä & Ira Ahokas; Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland - Territorial disparities of youth subjective wellbeing in Lithuania
Gintarė Vaznonienė; Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
14:15 Coffee break
14:30–16:00 Parallel Sessions 3 and 4
Parallel session 3: Regional development and planning
- The demands of doing better: Overcoming spatial and mobility lock-in by empowering sustainable futures in Ireland
Tadhg O’Mahony; Finland Futures Research Centre, Finland/Ireland - From rural to urban with a new perspective: Towards an alternative strategic framework for the regeneration of the valleys Impero and Prino in the province of Imperia, Liguria, Italy
Johanna Pieritz; RMPSL.LA, Cologne, Germany - Place-based development and the visions of future by locals – Experiences from Hungary
Bernadett Csurgó, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
Noémi Loncsák, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary;
Imre Kovách, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary and Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary;
Boldizsár Megyesi, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary;
Gabriella Nemes-Zambó, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Parallel session 4: Farms, farmers and farming
- Is there an alternative future leading to a growing number of farmers in the Netherlands?
Willem Korthals Altes; TU Delft, The Netherlands - Can social organizations help small farmers in food system transition? Evidences from Kenya
Chiara Caterina Razzano, Nunzia Borrelli & Maura Benegiamo; Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, Italy - Peasant agroecological farms: Drivers of rural development through generational renewal, employment, and social connections. The case of Terre de Liens farms in France.
Alice Martin-Prével, Véronique Rioufol & Thibaud Rochette, Fédération Nationale Terre de Liens, France;
Silvia Sivini & Annamaria Vitale, Università della Calabria, Italy
16:00 Coffee break
16:15–17:45 Parallel Sessions 5 and 6
Parallel sessions 5: Regional development trends and patterns
- New development trends in peripheric rural areas in SW Poland
Agnieszka Latocha, Katarzyna Kajdanek, Robert Szmytkie, Dominik Sikorski, Przemysław Tomczak & Paulina Miodońska; University of Wroclaw, Poland - Small industrial towns in Moravia: A comparison of the production and post-productive era
Antonin Vaishar & Milada Šťastná, Mender University in Brno, Czechia;
Jana Zapletalová, Institute of Geonics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia - Gentrification of city and its socio-economic, financial and legal aspects – A chance or threat for the future development of the Polish cities
Krystyna Nizioł; Faculty of Law and Administration, Szczecin University, Poland
Parallel session 6: Food systems
- Alternative agrifood futures: Case studies in Southern Italy
Alessandra Corrado & Mario Pullano; University of Calabria, Italy - New agro-ecological approaches in a wine region in Hungary
Adrienne Csizmady, Bernadett Csurgó, Szabina Kerényi, András Balázs, András Palacki & Veronika Kocsis; Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Hungary - ‘Young return’ to the land and multifunctional agriculture: Re-centralizing peripheral territories
Francesca Uleri & Susanne Elsen; Free University of Bolzano, Italy