FARO-EU (Foresight Analysis of Rural areas Of Europe) is a EU FP6 Specific Targeted Research Project, with a two year duration (Jan 2007-Dec 2009).
The main questions to be answered in the project are:

• What are major trends and driving forces affecting rural regions?
• At which scales do they operate?
• Which of these processes are amenable to change through RD policies and where? i.e. where EU support for rural development will create the most value added at EU level?
• How rural policies might be adapted in the future to take account of these processes?

FINAL POLICY WORKHOP

For information on the outcomes of the Final Policy Workshop, held in Brussels on 15 December 2009, please visit the related pages:

• Agenda(Word document)
• Minutes
• Presentations
• List of participants(Word document)

Project coordinator: Dr. Marta Pérez-Soba,  ALTERRA Wageningen UR (the Netherlands)
EU Scientific Officer: Dr. Hans-Jörg Lutzeyer, scientific Support to Policies - Common Agricultural Policy, Directorate General Research, Forestry, Fisheries and Aquaculture (.4)