SEEDA is a member of 3 rural European networks
 PURPLE – Peri-Urban Regions Platform Europe
Peri-urban regions in Europe face great pressures on their rural areas. Yet agriculture is still a significant economic sector and provides an important landscape setting. Many areas have areas of protection such as green belt and national parks, yet face significant pressures for urban expansions. Rural communities still need to provide adequate services to maintain a living countryside.
The South East is one of 12 regions that have joined together to form a network that will promote the needs of such areas and gain recognition for a specific peri urban agenda and exchange best practice.
The network includes: Region Randstad [ Netherlands]; MHAL [ Province of Limburg, Belgium]; Flanders [ Belgium]; Ile de France [ France]: Rhones-Alpes [ France]: Nord/Pas de Calais [France]; Catalunya [ Spain]; Mazovia [ Poland]; Stockholm [ Sweden]; Frankfurt [ Germany] and West Midlands [also in the UK]
Information can be found on their web site: www.purple-eu.org
 ECOVAST- the European Council for the Village and Small Town
The organisation, set up in 1984 to further the well-being of rural communities, and safeguarding the rural heritage throughout Europe. SEEDA is a member of its International Committee
Information can be found on their web site: www.ecovast.org
ECOVAST is managing a project on small rural towns across Europe.
ASSET – Action to Strengthen Small European Towns – started as a result of the Retz conference staged between SEEDA and the region of Lower Austria and ECOVAST. Information on the Retz conference can be found on the Small Rural Towns page
SEEDA is one of the main partners of this project and part of the international Steering Group.
Click here to see presentations on the aims and objectives of ASSET.
 APURE – Association Pour Les Universites Rurales Europeenes
APURE was founded in 1989 and is a network of practitioners and academics who meet every 2 years or so as a European Rural University to develop and share ideas and best practice. SEEDA is a member of their Conseil d’Administration [Board].
Information can be found [in English] on their web site www.ure-apure.org
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