Founding Partner And Member
International Comparative Rural Policy Programme And Partnership
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ICRPS was founded at a meeting in the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2001, when I was a visitin g scholar with the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), then based in the Truman School of Public Affairs. The partnership has in one period or throughout included Universities and Research Institutes in Mexico (Mexico State University, Temuco), Canada (Guelph, Université de Québec à Rimouski, Concordia University, Brandon University), USA (Missouri, Oregon State, Tuskegee Alabama, Penn State), Scotland (UHI, Aberdeen), Belgium (Leuvain KN), Spain (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Hungary (Corvinus University of Budapest), Italy (Bologna University), Ireland (Teagasc, UCD and Galway). After 2/3 year start up funding from the EU+Canada Cooperation Programme on Further and Higher Education, the activities have been sporadically supported from various sources, but mainly self-sufficient with contributions from faculty, students, and a few public programmes. The activities are very popular with faculty as well as students, who are mainly PhDs but also include Masters students from appropriate programs and some practitioners in territorial and sustainable rural development as well as national and international organisations.