Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Spain: Community of Valencia

Employment and access to health and social care services and long-term care

Panoramic view of a Valencian village on a hill, with a castle, church, and houses with light-colored roofs. In the background, open fields and mountains reflect the rural environment and its landscape.

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Date: March 10, 2026

Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm

Place:
Casa de la Cultura – Salón de Actos
(Calle Camino, 1, 46300, Utiel, Valencia)

Fundación Mapfre is committed to the rural environment as a space for opportunities and is organizing this meeting in which representatives of public administrations, the private sector, rural Valencia and its most vulnerable inhabitants will provide the keys to promoting the development of innovative solutions adapted to the environment based on two fundamental factors:

  • Rural women and entrepreneurship.
  • Improving quality of life through sport.

In collaboration with:

Utiel Valencia

PROGRAM

 

 

  • 10:30 am – Opening session.
  • 10:45 am – Institutional welcome.
  • 10:50 am – Round table on improving access to health and social services and long-term care.
    Focus: Improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups through sport.
    • The public sector perspective.
    • The private sector perspective.
    • The third sector perspective.
  • 11:50 am – Round table on social and workplace inclusion in rural areas. New sources and opportunities.
    Focus: Rural women and entrepreneurship.
    • The public sector perspective.
    • The private sector perspective.
    • The third sector perspective.
    • The perspective of representatives from the rural sphere.
  • 12:50 am – Institutional closing.
  • 1:00 pm – End of the event and Spanish wine tasting.
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