
Shane Conway
@drshaneconway
Rural Studies Centre, University of Galway 🇮🇪🇪🇺
#Galway4Sam💜 Charollais Breeder 🐑
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As a member of PREMIERE's Multi-Actor Advisory Panel, we are delighted to feature a 🆕 article on our website. The piece, provided by University of Galway Rural Studies Centre, highlights PREMIERE’s role in facilitating the Multi-Actor Approach through its #AKIS Strategy 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🔗 capnetworkireland.eu/facilitating-t…



Thanks to Stella Meehan for featuring an article about the recent launch of the Farmer's Yards - Social Initiative for Farmers social initiative for the farming community in the state of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on the Agriland website. See: agriland.ie/farming-news/s… #agriland Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway PA Department of Agriculture 🇮🇪🇺🇸

The CAP Network Ireland have added an article we wrote on the PREMIERE_EU-Project Horizon Europe project's #AKIS Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, aimed at facilitating the Multi-Actor Approach (#MAA) in agriculture, forestry & related sectors, to their website: capnetworkireland.eu/facilitating-t… 🇮🇪🇪🇺


Congratulations to Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway on the US launch of their Farmer's Yards - Social Initiative for Farmers social wellbeing initiative. Many thanks to Pennsylvania Farm Link for adopting the programme, funded by the Northeast Extension Risk Management Education Center Univ. of Delaware through NIFA. 🇮🇪 🤝 🇺🇸

Thanks to the Consulate General of Ireland in New York for promoting the transatlantic roll out of the Farmer's Yards - Social Initiative for Farmers Social Initiative for the Farming Community, developed & piloted by Shane Conway here in Ireland & now in operation in the state of Pennsylvania U.S.A. 🇮🇪 🤝🇺🇲

Last week's edition of the Irish Irish Farmers Journal featured an article about the recent launch of the Farmer's Yards - Social Initiative for Farmers social wellbeing initiative for the farming community in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (p.19) 🇮🇪🇺🇸 See: farmersjournal.ie/news/news/iris… Selection of pictures from this launch below👇



The March 2025 edition our Rural Voices Seminar Series will be held in conjunction with an upcoming FLIARA Project event exploring gender equality & innovation in rural/agriculture, featuring expert insights, project results & policy solutions. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…


📢Irish EIP-AGRI Operational Groups (OGs) 🇮🇪 PREMIERE_EU-Project is looking for your input to help shape better guidelines & support mechanisms that enhance the participation of OGs in future Horizon Europe Multi-Actor projects through a short online survey See: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…


Insightful new research from UCC School of Public Health explores the specific mental health challenges facing women in agriculture 🇮🇪👩🌾 From gender-based stigma & discrimination, lack of recognition & barriers to help-seeking—it's time to listen, support & act See: link.springer.com/article/10.100…


April 2025's Rural Voices Seminar will feature Shane Conway who will present an overview of our work on the PREMIERE_EU-Project Horizon Europe Project, including a new 'Multi-Actor Inclusion & Stakeholder Engagement Checklist' for proposal development Register: universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regist…


You can view/download a copy of Shane Conway's presentation on the Farmer's Yards - Social Initiative for Farmers social initiative for older farmers at the 2025 Extension Risk Management Education National Conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. earlier this month here: agrisk.umn.edu/Conferences/Pr… 🇮🇪🇺🇸


As AI-assisted writing tools & digital templates become more common to streamline proposal development, our new output from the PREMIERE_EU-Project Project aims to safeguard the human, participatory & relational dimensions that lie at the heart of strong Horizon Europe #MAA Projects 🇪🇺

We were pleased to showcase our monthly Rural Voices Seminar Series during the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless' (James Lawless) visit to the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway last week 🇮🇪🇪🇺 Department of Further and Higher Education @DeptRCD Research Ireland CASSCS Research


The PREMIERE #HorizonEurope project rolled out a National Engagement Campaign across 3 diverse Irish events in April & May, promoting our tools & resources, such as the #MAA Checklist to support #Cluster6 proposals -Rural Voices @DeptRCD -CIG 2025 Geographical Society of Ireland -Pint of Science IE🇮🇪


This year's IFTN Annual Professional Development Conference features an update by Shane Conway from Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway on the transatlantic journey of Farmer's Yards - Social Initiative for Farmers, a social initiative supporting farmers in Ireland 🇮🇪 & Pennsylvania 🇺🇸 through the emotional side of farm succession.
