Rural Resilience in Albarracín – The Journey continues!

The adventure continues! Having spent my first 10 weeks investigating the resilience of the British village of Wooler in the rural northeast of England, it’s now time to travel 2,000 kms by car to reach one of the most rural and scarcely populated areas in Europe. My destination is La Sierra de Albarracín (the Albarracín […]

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Twins learn from each other – the small town partnership between Wooler and Broughshane

The fact that we learn through observation has long been proven. In the context of small town development, this means that if we travel to another country or even another small town with our eyes open, we can learn from others beyond our boundaries. And if we get into conversation and exchange ideas, their approaches […]

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11th OECD Conference on Rural Development – Enhancing Rural Innovation

Between the 9th and 12th April, I had the opportunity to attend the 11th OECD Conference on Rural Development in Edinburgh. It was a stimulating and dynamic conference. I myself would probably not read a conference report on a blog, so in this post I’ll be brief and just summarize my main impressions.   “Rural […]

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