“Mind the Gap!” - intergenerational rural transformation.

“Mind the Gap!” - Addressing gaps in generational collaboration towards a sustainable, resilient, and intergenerational rural transformation.
Building on various Forum Synergies projects and activities*, we are seizing the opportunity to deepen our engagement with intergenerational topics by contributing a workshop to the 6th European Rural Parliament.

Living together – Creating intergenerational spaces: Forum Synergies, namely Adam Beswick, SE, is leading the workshop on the topic of intergenerational chances and challenges in the frame of the European Rural Parliament from 21-23 October 2025 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Forum Synergies activities linked to intergenerational aspects

• Scholarship programme 2025 and previous years
• The Rural Experience Hub Kick off meeting at Dupa Gard, RO, 31.5.-2.6.2025
• contributions to the Rural resilience Project led by ARC2020, particularly with its meetings in Marbug, 2023 and Poland, 2024
• contributions to the Latvian Rural Communities Paliament, June 2023

Adam BESWICK, SE

Adam Beswick is a member of Forum Synergies and 2023 recipient of the FS scholarship. Adam has worked on participatory and inter-generational approaches to sustainable rural development.
He played an active role in planning, organising, and moderating Forum Synergies’ Rural Experience Hub Kick off meeting in Romania in 2025.

Read more from Adam:

• A student in the forest: An explorative application of the framework of transition management for sustainability transitions in forest governance in Kosovo. Master thesis in Sustainable Development, 2023, Uppsala University
• Seeing the forest and the trees. A story of environmental learning and resilience in Kalavan village, Armenia. Forum Synergies and ABCD Innovation Center, 2023