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What are member states planning for the new CAP funding period? Regina Grajewski, Pia Rehburg and Stefan Becker, researchers at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, provide a comparative view of the draft CAP strategic plans.

On May 16, 2022, the Committee on Food and Agriculture of the German Bundestag dealt with the request of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group "Helping Ukraine now and in the future, securing worldwide food supplies and making European and German agriculture crisis-proof" in a public hearing.

Prof. Dr. Peter Weingarten, Director of the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, has been appointed by Federal Minister Cem Özdemir to the Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Nutrition and Consumer Health Protection (WBAE) for a renewed term of office.

On 28 January, PD Dr. Tuuli-Marja Kleiner, senior scientist at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, was elected as a member of the steering group of the BBE's Civil Society Research Working Group for a term of 3 years.

On Jan. 21, 2022, Melanie Rühmling successfully defended her dissertation thesis titled "Staying in rural areas: Staying lifestyles using the example of women in rural areas in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" at the University of Rostock.

Dr. Patrick Küpper, scientist at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, was elected as an academy member for ten years by the general meeting of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) on November 25, 2021.

New Thünen Institute to be established in Höxter / Christian Hundt appointed institute director

More than 20 young researchers from all over Germany participated in the PhD Workshop Rural Studies 2021 on September 8 and 9, 2021. The PhD students exchanged ideas on current qualitative research approaches on the topic of "everyday life and tensions in rural areas".

The team of the STAYin(g)Rural international research project at the Thünen Institute for Rural Studies mourns the loss of its colleague Prof. Aileen Stockdale (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland). Aileen died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 27, 2021 at the age of 56.

The 11th summer conference of the German-speaking section (GfR) of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) takes place at 1 and 2 July 2021. Submissions are welcome until 28 February 2021.