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¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Third and final announcement ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Nordic-Scottish University Network for Rural and Regional Development invites for the 5th annual conference on rurality in a Nordic-Scottish context. The conference will be held at Roedding Folk High School in Denmark, September 6th- 9th 2001 The conference focuses on: * Rurality in a Nordic- Scottish Context. How do we define and understand rurality in our individual national context? Do we speak about the same subject? Keynote speaker: Prof. John Bryden, The Arkleton Centre, Aberdeen University (Scotland) * Policy and Politics in Rural and Regional Development. Local, regional, rural, agricultural etc. Policy and politics have different approaches. Do these approaches supply or oppose each other? Keynote speaker: Senior research fellow Lars Olof Persson, Nordregio, Stockholm (S) * New Paradigms for Rural Development: Organic Free Zones etc. Empowering resources and qualifications. The transformations of passive areas to developing areas. Keynote speaker: Senior lecturer Jan Holm Ingemann, Aalborg University (DK) These themes are discussed and illustrated through * Workshops: Converting Research into Policy * Excursion: Sustainability in Praxis The full programme can be found at www.cfu-land.dk. The conference caters for researchers and development workers in the Nordic countries and Scotland, working with rural and regional development. Latest possible registration for the conference is the 20th of August 2001. Organisers are the Danish Centre for Rural Research and Development supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark. Direct any questions concerning the conference to Hanne Tanvig [log in to unmask] (tel.:+45 65 50 41 32) or Monica Stoye [log in to unmask] (Tel.: +45 65 50 41 64)