• The work of the Regional Antennas focuses on understanding the different regional realities, identifying good practice projects, organizing workshops, and improving the dissemination of RRN content.
• The team of the 9 Regional Antennas covers all the autonomous communities and its objective is to achieve the greatest possible proximity to rural areas.

The objective of the Regional Antennas program is to offer the RRN a greater presence in the region, as well as greater connections to rural areas . Its importance is vital to disseminating the Rural Development Program (RDP) .

1st anniversary: review

The Regional Antennas began their journey with an agenda that outlined three immediate objectives:

1. Identify and know the main agents of each territory
2. Promoting participatory workshops on the "Long-term vision for rural areas" : the Regional Antennas launched workshops in their territories to disseminate this strategy promoted by the European Commission, with the aim of encouraging local authorities to develop workshops on the future of their rural areas so that the different specificities of Spanish rural areas would be reflected in the "Rural Europe 2040" strategy .
3. 3rd Rural Inspiration Awards 2021: The NRN sent the projects identified by the Regional Antennas as having the best potential to compete in this edition, which focused on "Rural Future" to the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) . Finally, of the two projects selected for the final phase by the ENRD (out of the eight shortlisted by the NRN), the winner was the "Local-Scale Circular Bioeconomy Pilot Project" (Bordablanca, Navarra), in the "Resilient Future" category.

During 2021, the Regional Antennas have organized several meetings at the territorial level, and have carried out a diagnosis in each territory on rural entrepreneurship :

• 17 "Exchange of Experiences among Rural Entrepreneurs" days : This series of entrepreneurship days, held between April 20 and May 12, 2021, in all autonomous communities, aimed to showcase the experiences of established projects to address the issues that most concern entrepreneurs in the first steps of their initiatives.
• 18 dossiers with resources for entrepreneurship in rural areas : Thanks to the previous workshops, along with active information gathering and interviews with key stakeholders in the region, we were able to compile various resources available for entrepreneurship in each autonomous community, as well as entrepreneurs' perceptions of the needs of each region. This has been compiled in 18 dossiers, one for each autonomous community, plus one at the national level, which are available here .
• Youth entrepreneurship workshops focused on various topics : In the final stretch of 2021, five workshops were organized with the participation of rural youth from various autonomous communities. The topics covered included leisure and culture , the forestry sector , local businesses , small industries , and organic production .

The Regional Antennas program will continue throughout 2022 with a series of in-person meetings for rural youth in each of the autonomous communities.