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25 & 26 November 2025

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Day 1 - Tuesday

25 November 2025

  • Opening Remarks
  • Session 1. Maximising rural-urban connections to strengthen resilience, water security and regional performance
  • Launch of OECD Policy Highlights: Reinforcing Rural Resilience
  • Session 2. Food as rural-urban connector: developing local systems

Day 2 - Wednesday

26 November 2025

  • Session 3. Forests and bioeconomy: creating opportunities foer economic development
  • Session 4. Exploring new ways to measure rural-urban connections
  • Launch of OECD Rural Innovation Report
  • Session 5. Harnessing AI for rural innovation: the role of rural-urban linkages
  • Session 6. Connecting rural entrepreneurs, start-ups, and SMEs to urban investment and innovation networks
  • Session 7. How the Blue Economy drive rural business development across river basins, while benefiting from rural demand, investment and policy frameworks
  • Closing Remarks