{"id":7626,"date":"2025-09-02T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/lecciones-del-erys-2025-empoderando-a-la-juventud-rural-europea\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:07:57","slug":"lecciones-del-erys-2025-empoderando-a-la-juventud-rural-europea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/lecciones-del-erys-2025-empoderando-a-la-juventud-rural-europea\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from ERYS 2025: Empowering Rural European Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August 2025, the town of Val\u010da in Slovakia hosted the third European Rural Youth Summit (ERYS 2025 \u2013 Together for Today)<\/strong><\/a>, an event that brought together young people, trainers, and policymakers from rural communities across Europe. Under the banner \u201cTogether for Today,\u201d the summit focused on the well-being of rural youth and intercultural dialogue as drivers for more inclusive societies.<\/p>\n

One of the highlights was giving young people the opportunity to share their experiences and take an active role in driving change: not only participating in workshops and debates but also directly contributing policy recommendations that reflect their realities. ERYS<\/strong> served as a platform where their voices were heard, their challenges\u2014such as distance, isolation, or lack of opportunities\u2014were made visible, and concrete solutions were explored. Emotional health, social connection, and mutual support were also emphasised as essential components of any strategy aimed at revitalising rural areas.<\/p>\n

For those working with youth\u2014whether as trainers, in local development, or community projects\u2014ERYS 2025<\/strong> offers practical inspiration: creating safe spaces for young people to express concerns, incorporating participatory methodologies where their voices truly matter, and building local support networks with a European perspective.<\/p>\n

ERYS 2025<\/strong> not only inspired Europe\u2019s rural youth but also looked to the future: the next edition of the Summit promises to continue fostering connection, empowerment, and co-creation, inviting new rural communities to make their voices heard in the European dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In August 2025, the town of Val\u010da in Slovakia hosted the third European Rural Youth Summit (ERYS 2025 \u2013 Together for Today), an event that brought together young people, trainers, and policymakers from rural communities across Europe. Under the banner \u201cTogether for Today,\u201d the summit focused on the well-being of rural youth and intercultural dialogue as drivers for more inclusive societies. One of the highlights was giving young people the opportunity to share their experiences and take an active role in driving change: not only participating in workshops and debates but also directly contributing policy recommendations that reflect their realities. ERYS served as a platform where their voices were heard, their challenges\u2014such as distance, isolation, or lack of opportunities\u2014were made visible, and concrete solutions were explored. Emotional health, social connection, and mutual support were also emphasised as essential components of any strategy aimed at revitalising rural areas. For those working with youth\u2014whether as trainers, in local development, or community projects\u2014ERYS 2025 offers practical inspiration: creating safe spaces for young people to express concerns, incorporating participatory methodologies where their voices truly matter, and building local support networks with a European perspective. ERYS 2025 not only inspired Europe\u2019s rural youth but also looked to the future: the next edition of the Summit promises to continue fostering connection, empowerment, and co-creation, inviting new rural communities to make their voices heard in the European dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villahub.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}