President Magel attends the 5th European Congress on Village Renewal

St. Pölten, Austria, 21-22 September 2005

President Holger Magel attended the 5th European Congress on Village Renewal – “Rural Areas in 2005 - Changing Realities – New Challenges” which was held in St. Pölten, Austria, 21-22 September 2005. President Magel attended the congress as the Chair of the Habitat Professionals Forum. His keynote presentation was titled: “The resources of rural areas. A plea for sustainable land management and an active civil society”.

The aim of the Congress was to discuss the manifold changes and revolutions that are reshaping the rural world at the beginning of the third millennium, and on the basis of this discussion, to present and also to develop ideas and strategies for managing these changes, averting them or taking advantage of them.